180 pages in on Turn Coat now...

[annathepiper]

... and I just bet I know who the traitor is. Because jimbutcher is like that AUGH.


I may be totally off-base but right now my money's on Luccio.

Because a) she's currently romantically involved with Harry, and if the history of this series has taught me anything, it's that anybody romantically involved with Harry is likely to be a Very Bad Idea, and

b) She's currently walking around in a much younger body. I have a sneaky suspicion, thinking back on it now, that this might not have been as accidental as it looked at the time. If she was as old a wizard as she was, I'm betting the prospect of being in a younger body again was very attractive.

Alternately, they could have swayed her to the Dark Side after the switch, threatening to take her out of that agile young body after she'd had a taste of it.

But mostly a). Because Jim is awful like that and Harry's gotten too emotionally comfy lately. ;)


ETA: Okay, so I wasn't entirely off. Har!


Okay, so Luccio had been manipulated into committing the murder. Yowza. So I was on the right track, just not entirely facing the right direction!

And *sniff* about the ending, what with Morgan's death and Luccio and Harry breaking up and Thomas getting tortured by the skinwalker and *yow*.

Although in a purely selfish way I'm not sorry about Luccio and Harry breaking up, 'cause well, seriously, it's always been all about the Harry and Murphy. ;>

What was that I was saying about Harry getting too emotionally comfy lately? Right then!

Comments

[penmage.livejournal.com]

I will sit here and watch and wait until you finish :D.

[annathepiper]

Done now! See comments edited in above.

[firni.livejournal.com]

*cackles*

[firni.livejournal.com]

READ FASTER

[annathepiper]

Done now! See comments edited in on the post.

[miladygrey.livejournal.com]

Just prepare for your heart to be stomped flat. That is all.

[eveshka.livejournal.com]

Yes. Seconding this. Mine's still cowering under the desk, desperately hoping that Codex Alera 4 doesn't trample it all over again.

[annathepiper]

Done now! See comments above!

[annathepiper]

Done now! And yep, there was some stompage. Sniff!

[kieri.livejournal.com]

Just wait!

It was a really good book. :) I tore through it, but SeattleSparks finished first, and she said, "OMG, the ending, waaah," and then I had to endure 8 hours of, "What happened? Did so-and-so die?" and she wouldn't tell me.

I will say this much, though, because if she hadn't told me I would never have finished the book: Mouse is just fine! :P

[annathepiper]

Just now finished it! And yeah, there's some *sniff!* involved!

But yeah, very relieved that Mouse is fine. ^_^

[liamstliam.livejournal.com]

My wife was annoyed that the real traitor was someone who was just plopped into the book to be the traitor.

The deaths I could deal with.

The Thomas stuff really jarred me.

I thought it was one of his best.

[annathepiper]

Yeah, it's generally a safe bet in any novel I think that the character you've never met before, who's actually got a name and a few speaking lines, is a safe suspect. ;) Either that, or the recently acquired love interest!

The Thomas stuff was particularly wrenching, yeah. That made me sniff way harder than the Luccio stuff.

[liamstliam.livejournal.com]

Luccio never concerned me, because Harry "can never have nice things" in the girlfriend department.

I figured that wasn't gonna last.

[annathepiper]

EXACTLY!

Also, I am totally holding out for Murphy, and if this series is supposed to be 20-some-odd books we have a bit before we can really go there. ;)

[liamstliam.livejournal.com]

I was gonna say: If it's ever going to be anyone, it's going to be Murphy.

[annathepiper]

Oh my yes. I have been convinced Jim's going that direction since Book 1, and this time around, we actually had Harry and Murphy flirting with each other, not to mention that charming little bit where they were all "well this is going somewhere awkward" and "let's pick up with whatsoever ass". :)

[mamishka.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I saw Peabody being the 'bad guy' simply because he was the character that Butcher had to introduce us to, so we couldn't just say, "Who the fuck is he??" at the end of the book. Big mistake, that. He should have found a way to introduce Peabody earlier than the book he was going to have him the villain in. Poor planning that, which is part of why this book annoyed me.

All the shit happening to Harry - Luccio not really loving him, Thomas turning away from him, the fact that he only moderately won, but really didn't win at all. Pissed the ever loving shit out of me. Grrr.

[annathepiper]

Oddly enough it didn't piss me off much, but I can totally see where you're coming from, I think.

Luccio not really loving him didn't bother me, in no small part because like I said, selfishly speaking, I didn't want that to go anywhere anyway. ;) But also, I think Harry himself knew it really wasn't going anywhere. Had this been earlier in the series, I think it would have been more severe for him. But this is an older and wiser Harry, and he understood more with this than I think he would have in his twenties.

The Thomas stuff, though... aigh. That was definitely wrenching, and perhaps a bit much thrown in with everything else... but it didn't seem out of place to me. Something of this nature was bound to happen sooner or later.

[denelian.livejournal.com]

just, to everyone above, i am pretty sure we have at least *heard* of Peabody before this book. i recognized him. i might go back through and make sure.

also: the REAL hero of these books? MOUSE!

that is all.

[annathepiper]

Mouse was, I agree, made of complete and utter AWESOME. <3

But I don't remember seeing Peabody before at all! Of course, we haven't had any scenes in Wizard Central in Edinburgh before either.

[denelian.livejournal.com]

i'm pretty sure that he was involved in the meeting that including Molly's "sentencing"
sadly, a friend is borrowing the last few Dresden books, so i can't check until she gives them back. was that in "White Knight"
it's the book that starts off with the "trial" of the teenage wizard who gets beheaded, and has the horror convention and such.
i am like 90% certain that Peabody was one of the wizards who spoke during that meeting.

[denelian.livejournal.com]

that was a question, btw - was that in "White Knight?"
i forgot the question mark. i was asking if White Knight was the book with the scenes i described. sigh.

[annathepiper]

Late answer to this but yeah, I think it was White Night that had Molly on trial. I will have to keep an eye out for Peabody--I will eventually reread them all, and that will be fun.