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

[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.