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DF Spoilers / Re: Twelve Months (blurb'ed & priced on Amazon)
« on: March 29, 2025, 05:13:02 PM »
Ah, for the good old days, when there were 12 months between book releases, and not between the finish and release of a single book.
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DF Spoilers / Re: Twelve Months (blurb'ed & priced on Amazon)
« on: March 27, 2025, 11:45:16 PM »
Maybe "Twelve Months" also means the length of time between Butcher posting that he finished the book and its release date.
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DF Spoilers / Re: Grey Council… will we meet it in TM? Who is on it?
« on: March 21, 2025, 03:31:34 PM »
Maybe the GC member shouting "Fuego" is Carlos.
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DF Spoilers / Re: James Butcher
« on: March 12, 2025, 01:01:58 AM »
Mira, are you confident that Mother Margaret is dead? I'm not, even in the face of WOJs. In writing 26 books and more about Dresden, I think Butcher may well have to engage in "willful misdirection" in answering questions, else his non-answers/refusals to answer have fans figuring out what Butcher wants to keep hidden for revelations at his own time. In that regard, at times the series reminds me of Three's Company - can someone just have a conversation to explain things to Dresden, and avoid a lot of misunderstandings and avoidable conflict? Since no one clues Dresden in on critical matters - like what does Starborn actually mean or do for Dresden - what are they hiding from Dresden and why?
I spent some time researching to see if it was impossible that Margaret had assumed the Leanansidhe mantle (like Mab, the Winter/Summer Ladies, the Winter/Summer Knights - a theory of mine). It would be a bit awkward, though Lea does call Dresden 'my son' a few times.
I spent some time researching to see if it was impossible that Margaret had assumed the Leanansidhe mantle (like Mab, the Winter/Summer Ladies, the Winter/Summer Knights - a theory of mine). It would be a bit awkward, though Lea does call Dresden 'my son' a few times.
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DF Spoilers / Re: James Butcher
« on: March 10, 2025, 08:54:15 PM »
I'm not sure why anyone thinks that Butcher won't have other unexpected things pop up in his life that take up significant time and energy, and also slow his writing output. If Butcher got back to his one every 12 or 18 months, the last book is 10 years away. Even if he gets to a Dresden pace of every other year, the end is still 15+ years away.
Whether you pick 10 or 15 or think 20 years is more realistic, I'd bet the over (but hope that Butcher gets a co-author soon to increase the odds that the 63-YO me is around to read the last book).
Whether you pick 10 or 15 or think 20 years is more realistic, I'd bet the over (but hope that Butcher gets a co-author soon to increase the odds that the 63-YO me is around to read the last book).
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DF Spoilers / Re: James Butcher
« on: March 09, 2025, 03:46:25 PM »Yes, Twelve Months has had a pretty quick turn around of a year or two, . . .
I don't understand the quoted part. Last book that was released was Battle Ground in 2020. What am I missing? I don't count The Law novella but even it was 2022.
Agree with the rest of your post.
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DF Spoilers / Re: James Butcher
« on: March 08, 2025, 05:00:30 PM »
Is it just me, or does anyone else suspect that James is being groomed to have the resume to take over the Dresden Files at some point/in case, or perhaps just write in the Dresden Universe?
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DF Spoilers / Re: Blood Rites foreshadowing
« on: February 23, 2025, 06:29:06 PM »
I expect a family pattern to be acknowledged in 12 Months. Maggie Sr. is the consort of (marries?) the head of the White Court. Her son Harry is engaged to marry the successor head of the White Court, Lara.
That also suggests a hidden truth. Harry is the Winter Court's White Knight. Did Maggie Sr. also have as of yet unknown status in the Winter Court, or was she otherwise beholden to the Winter Court via Lea like Harry? And is Harry's betrothal Mab's second attempt to use one of her vassals to ally with the White Court? Or maybe used for some more devious machination? Mab quickly deciding to marry Harry off to ally with the White Court makes me think Mab's up to something else or at least some additional else - maybe she needs a second spy/provocateur within the White Court because of suspicions that the White Court may have an agenda adverse to Mab or even the Summer Court. I have no idea or even a WAG but put me down as suspicious, waiting for another shoe or two to drop.
That also suggests a hidden truth. Harry is the Winter Court's White Knight. Did Maggie Sr. also have as of yet unknown status in the Winter Court, or was she otherwise beholden to the Winter Court via Lea like Harry? And is Harry's betrothal Mab's second attempt to use one of her vassals to ally with the White Court? Or maybe used for some more devious machination? Mab quickly deciding to marry Harry off to ally with the White Court makes me think Mab's up to something else or at least some additional else - maybe she needs a second spy/provocateur within the White Court because of suspicions that the White Court may have an agenda adverse to Mab or even the Summer Court. I have no idea or even a WAG but put me down as suspicious, waiting for another shoe or two to drop.
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DF Spoilers / Re: A crescendo of deliberate continuity errors
« on: January 20, 2025, 03:45:31 AM »
Bad for Harry, probably. Bad for the Dresden reality, and everything and everybody that Harry loves? Almost assuredly not - unless you think the Outsiders prevail notwithstanding power-upped Harry's best efforts, and the series ends with Empty Night.
I think the bigger Qs are whether Harry is the Jon Snow of this series and he's not the hero who prevails over the Outsiders, and whether Harry survives at the end.
I think the bigger Qs are whether Harry is the Jon Snow of this series and he's not the hero who prevails over the Outsiders, and whether Harry survives at the end.
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DF Spoilers / Re: Nicodemus Archleone and John Marcone - Birds of a feather?
« on: January 16, 2025, 10:26:02 PM »
WAG: Marcone took up the coin under the condition that the girl in the coma is cured.
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DF Spoilers / Re: Nicodemus Archleone and John Marcone - Birds of a feather?
« on: January 11, 2025, 04:15:36 PM »
Odds that Marcone is also starborn?
Also, isn't Nic starborn?
Also, isn't Nic starborn?
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DF Spoilers / Re: Twelve Months stuck?
« on: January 05, 2025, 03:50:56 PM »
Unstuck. For a few percentage points, any way.
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DF Spoilers / Re: Twelve Months stuck?
« on: December 25, 2024, 03:52:58 PM »
I have to say that I was hoping for a Christmas present via the % complete slider . . .
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DF Spoilers / Re: A crescendo of deliberate continuity errors
« on: December 21, 2024, 03:34:47 AM »
But you KNOW how much Butcher likes to torture Dresden.
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DF Spoilers / Re: A crescendo of deliberate continuity errors
« on: December 20, 2024, 02:57:19 PM »
Here's to hoping in the Evil Harry 'verse that everything else is definitively better - like Murphy still alive, Molly neither the Winter Lady nor under the White Counsel's sword, Susan still alive and raising Maggie, the Red Court and Outsiders in their places or maybe even defeated, etc. - so Harry knows if he'd have made different decisions that turned him evil, the world and the people he loved would be much better off. Fulcrum, indeed, plus personal depression.