I was going to cite the in-books quote that Angels don't just have souls, Angels don't have anything *but* soul (and a ton of it). But then I realized it's a Bob quote, and he's far from an expert on such things.

The "heavy hitters" were the Brute Squad -- the ones that were killed at Archangelsk offscreen before Summer Knight.

I'd say no, there aren't any heavy hitters among the wardens whose names we know, outside of Chandler and Harry -- but there are probably a number of powerful wizards who never signed up. Too busy pyramid sitting or being very, very married.

But I guess we'll see -- we've been promised that a "complement" of Wardens will be summoned, which suggests more than the four who are already present.

"MS is a dead ringer for Clotho"

Could you elaborate on this?

I've always seen Clotho-Lachesis-Atropos described in the maiden-mother-hag model of the tripart-goddess. (Which is a model that's repeated in the two Fairy Courts in the DV with the Lady-Queen-Mother triple.)

If this topic interests you there is an interesting post on Reddit.  Shows video of a model of New York at close to the scale of Little Chicago.  Covers the area of two basketball courts.  Harry's basement must have been tremendous!!!!!

Yeah... This was always a problem. Combined with the sheer scale of the project as described.

Rule of Cool, though. It's such a cool idea, it's worthy of a bit of suspension of disbelief.

I wonder how effective wizardly hexes (and the much bigger Eye of Balor effect) are against hardened military electronics, the kind designed to withstand EMP weapons.

So is Harry naked once again?  He said his spider silk suit was ripped to shreds.

Molly's there. Bet she brought presents as well as sharks.

I will say I was happy with the Murphy of these two chapters.

She's still present and has Harry's back, but she didn't try to leap into the water and fight the kraken or even shoot it. She took an active role, doing things like getting out a flare and lighting it, or giving Freydis a grenade, but she's acting well within her body's limits and not blindly charging in and becoming a liability. I should have had more faith.

She seems to be taking over some of the best parts of Butters' role in Dead Beat. She's a mortal, in over her head, but still able to help through grit and competence. And she gets to be the reader-stand-in for much needed world exposition. (Not everyone has been researching the Ethniu myths since Peace Talks came out! And there's going to be a lot more that we don't know.)

Their relationship even felt more real and healthy than in their first chapter in Peace Talks, where it felt like they were always maneuvering through a minefield of prickly topics. Maybe it's just that they put all the small stuff to the side when things get serious, but it was nice to see. (I'm not sure if it was intentional, but on second reading I laughed at how she's now *physically* "lumpier and pointier than the dictates of romance..." where she was like that metaphorically in chapter 5 of Peace Talks.)

So...
What are the spoiler rules for sample chapters, anyway?