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.