sholio | Dresden Files!!

So first of all, we're getting not just one but two Dresden Files books this summer/fall, and second, the first two chapters of Peace Talks are up on Butcher's website.

Chapter One | Chapter Two

Not very coherent reactions to the first two chapters under the cut:

THIS IS ALL SO CUTE I COULD DIIIIEEEEEEE

I am a huge sucker for not-very-domestic characters being domestic, and these chapters, especially the second one, hit my domesticity kinks like whoa. I really hope the amount of Thomas in the first two chapters means this will be a Thomas-intensive book, because it's been a long time since we had one of those.

And finally, if only for a little while, things are fun again. The last few books have been so heavy and dark that a whole chapter of Harry and Maggie and Thomas and Mouse being a family hit my soul like a sweet soft balm.

BABY SPIRIT SKULL IS TOO CUTE

Maggie clearly isn't one of the people who knows that Thomas is Harry's brother, since she's not calling him Uncle, and that makes me a bit sad, but she does obviously like him. Everything with Harry and Thomas brother-ing at each other! Harry trying so hard to be a good dad! And something is clearly wrong with Harry, and Thomas being worried about him is A+.

I gotta say, I wasn't really looking forward to Peace Talks because I was expecting a lot of politics and not a lot of core team, but now I am dying for the rest of the book. If all of it lives up to the promise of the first two chapters, it might be right up there with the books from my so-far-favorite part of the series (the run of books from about 6-10, basically). I CANNOT WAIT FOR THIS ONE.

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I hadn't even paid attention to the next publishing date, let alone realized there were two. So thanks for the heads up!

Though unfortunately the German Amazon doesn't seem to offer the UK edition for preorder, which bothers me because for all the past books I bought as hardcover when they came out I picked those because those were slightly cheaper here, and they are sized a little differently than the US hardcovers, so now my OCD-ish tendencies balk at switching to the US edition...

Awww man, that's so frustrating! Publishing country zones are such an enormous pain. (And I hear you on wanting all the books on my shelf to match ...!)

I can just about cope with having bought the earlier ones in paperback and then switched to hardcover because I didn't want to wait, but two different kinds of hardcovers is somehow pushing it.

Yeah, I've got the first half of the series in paperback for exactly that reason, and it doesn't really bother me because there are at least enough paperbacks to stack neatly beside the hardcovers. But I think different sized hardbacks would drive me bonkers too. There's one series I collect that changed sizes halfway through (because she changed publishers), and that's definitely an AARGH reaction from me.

That is so very exciting!

I agree with everything in your review, and can't wait to see where the books go. (Based on past experience with the Fomor and the title of the second book, I'm guessing the talks don't go very well.)

Thank you for sharing.

Based on past experience with the Fomor and the title of the second book, I'm guessing the talks don't go very well.

Hahaha, I KNOW RIGHT? Oh, you know what I was just thinking about - that one side story with Justine and Marcone and the Fomor. I forgot that Justine actually has a history with them. That should be very interesting indeed. :D

Butcher is one of the many reasons I wish like hell I could edit my brain. I read along in the first bunch, loving everything, until a tiny glitch became a maddening itch: everyone, but everyone, in those books, especially Harry, "said softly." "I said softly." Once I noticed it, I could not look away--and midway in a book when there were four on a single page, I realized that world was broken for me. Argh, damn, argh.

I still have them all here, in hopes that I can read them again. But not yet.

Awww man, I know what you mean. There are some authors with quirks that do that to me too. (There's actually a different writing tic in Butcher's books that occasionally bothers me, but I won't mention it because it might make this problem even worse for you ...)

But yeah, this is the problem with being a writer, reading others' books. We can't turn off the inner editor part of our brain!

BABY SPIRIT SKULL IS TOO CUTE

That sounds extremely cute.

I'm basically in this series for Waldo Butters.

Butters is an EXCELLENT character and a very good reason to be here!

I have lost a lot of my enthusiasm for the books in the past few years, and there are already things in the first two chapters that I'm skeptical about, but Bonnie is adorable and I now look forward to the book a lot more.

Haha, yeah; some of it really hasn't aged well for me, as well as the darker tone of the last few books really not being my thing, but at the same time I'm still in love with the characters and it is looking like this book might hit some happy buttons that I haven't really gotten out of the series since what was, for me, its heyday pre-Turn Coat. *fingers crossed*

ooo thanks for the heads up.

:DDD

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