Oh, wow. I was able to force myself to spread this out over two weeks, because it's not often I get new Jim Butcher into my hands anymore and I wanted to make sure it lasted for all it could. It was super, super hard to spread this one out. Typical of the series, this moves fairly fast and is pretty action-packed (even Harry's "healing time" at the beginning is exciting. Poor man!) and it's incredibly hard to put down.

I loved the way the new twists of the series are working to fit in with what the series had been up until the aptly-named Changes. This series has morphed into something quite different than it started out as, but it's still at its heart an investigative noir set in an urban fantasy universe. Plus, this has Harry struggling more with his darker nature, which is something that's always been a factor in the series but it's definitely coming more to the fore-ground in here.

The ending was pretty fabulous, as well. Thankfully it's not the huge giant cliffhanger like the last two have felt, but I was not expecting more game-changing twists this soon after Changes and Ghost Story. Just...man. Butcher knows how to really get me, and the wait for the next book is going to be really hard.

EDIT// still weird about the molly thing though
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Can I give this more than five stars? Definitely my favorite book in the series so far. Not because it took 14 books to get good, but because this one just superseded all the magnificence that came before. Plus, faeries everywhere.

This was another that was non-stop with the hits to Harry. Like, it would not kill you to slow the pace a touch. And the ending of this one was kinda messed up. Curious where it'll go from here.

Excellent!

I love the Dresden books, the nerd humor is great and they are action packed.

This is Harry's first book as The Winter Knight. That's all the non-spoilery stuff. The rest is just notes for me to remember what happened.

Spoiler

Harry is the Warden of Deamonreach...because beneath the surface is a prison for the baddest of the baddies.

The Winter Court is at war with The Outsiders on the borders of fairy. The Outsiders are most likely the source of The Adversary that is infecting Wizards and Fae. I wonder if The Black Council won't be revealed to have been the first infected. This war, too, is why The Gatekeeper of The White council is so named; he guards the gate along the border of fairy.

The Adversary infected The Winder Lady, Maeve, which allows her to lie. The final battle results in both her and Lily, the Summer Lady dying. Maeve's sister becomes the new Summer Lady and Molly become the new Winter Lady.

Brilliant

Hard to take the changes in the last few books for Dresden, not sure I like them and how they've vastly changed the series, it's style and flow. But, that aside, another great book.