Dresden Files FYI

Hopefully he can get back on track. Butcher turning into Martin/Rothfuss lite and putting out Dresden books every 5-6 years has been extremely disappointing.

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Hopefully he can get back on track. Butcher turning into Martin/Rothfuss lite and putting out Dresden books every 5-6 years has been extremely disappointing.

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Yeah it’s a bit frustrating his pacing now. I saw someone post a while back that he went through a nasty divorce. No idea if that’s true, but it would make sense.

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With how powerful he's gotten, I'm not sure there's much else to expect.

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Also, they have been doing a lot of foreshadowing that he’s gonna break a glass ceiling soon and enter an entirely different order of magnitude of power and problems.

-Ethiunu (I’m sure I misspelled that) showing that all of these previous standards of incredible power (Mab, Odin, Eb, Tatiana, Erlking, etc) actually have multiple weight classes above them and they are starting to be more active.

-Outsiders playing a larger hand in openly trying to force the “empty night.” Remember, Harry and crew didn’t win in Battlegrounds. They just obtained the best outcome that was available to them. If Chicago fell, so much the better for the Outsiders, but even with repelling Corbs forces it just lays the foundation of the next stage of the plan.

-Increasing dialogue of the value and import of being a Star born, on BOTH sides of the conflict. Explicit statements that things are close to the “endgame”

-Implications that the Senior Council is fully aware of what is coming and has ideas of the role Harry should (or shouldn’t) play. This is likely why the Merlin is so anti-Harry, especially if he isn’t a member of the Black Council. (As an aside, I really hope he doesn’t turn out to be Cowl)


-Foreshadowing from Mab that Harry is on a path to being given the choice to turn immortal, a situation that Ebenezer is fully aware of and doesn’t want Harry to take.


I don’t think it’s fair to say that he wrote himself into a corner by having the stakes so high. He is clearly laying the foundations of something big. Wouldn’t be surprised if the next book or two is a bit of a step back breather.