5/21/2023 0 Comments Definitely dead bookButcher keeps his cast of characters tight, and that helps. I don’t know how far Harris is planning on going with the Stackhouse series, but if she’s planning on keeping pace with her brother-in-arms Jim Butcher - who’s said he’s going into the late twenties at the very least with the Dresden Files - she’s going to really have to pick up the game. But really, this felt less like a single solitary adventure and more like a stop gap until she works on the next one. She wrote this novel to deliver a major thorn in the side of Miss Stackhouse, which is a pretty brutal one at that and will have ramifications down the road, and then to set up a new relationship. Harris won’t kill any of her principles at this point, so it’s become a case of advancing myth points. It seems to be suffering from the same problems “Lost” and “Heroes” did when they were direction-less and didn’t know how long they would have to sustain themselves. It’s now become episodic rather than a contained story. She’s starting to reach that point in her writings where she’s settled in for the long winter’s nap.
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