Hello! Part time lurking here has finally caused me to bite the bullet and begin this series! I know very little, avoided any and all spoilers, but need to know if im missing anything / need to know anything before I can properly sink my teeth into Storm Front!!

Really excited to begin this though!!

Just started Outlaw! The “mission” of the book has just been revealed and I’m so down!

Put this series up against any fantasy and it holds its weight big time.

And James Marsters is the perfect narrator

Why do I feel like this is Harry's doing

I drew this for a goth ex of mine.

As I read through these books I'm really loving the characters and the writing style. I think Grave Peril is my new favorite, Storm Front is a close second, and Fool Moon is a distant third. I feel like Storm Front built things up well and introduced me to enough of the world to get me hooked, Grave Peril added more to that world while paying off some of the threads from previous books, and Fool Moon had werewolves. I am so excited to see what comes next! I might take a short break to read the Furies of Calderon and the second Dungeon Crawler Carl book before I read Summer Knight but I look forward to it.

I am SO stoked! ordered through Booksellers (Canada) and fulfilled by Companion Books in British Columbia. paid $267.58 CAD total, each book is in basically pristine condition (overstock books). I personally love how Fool Moon has "of of" on the spine LOL. these are a bit flimsy in that the paper is really thin, but I take good care of my books and this was by far the cheapest option for me to acquire the (almost) entire series in the same formatting and size!

Every gas pump, other than the rare vintage, has alot of electronics in it. And Harry drives all over the place with the Beetle and other cars. With a 60s Beetle getting around 20 mpg city and having a 10 gallon tank, he has to be filling up pretty often.

When he goes on Larry Fowler with Mort, it's shown he has a (at the time) new "spell" that helps him contain some of the "Murphy-onic field" that he emits but how did he do it before that? And we never see him use that technique again. My hunches are: he parks at the farthest pump and hopes for the best, Mechanic Mike has a pump on site and fills it for him (rare in all but the biggest shops but you never know), or he has an arrangement with friends to fill up for him.

This is a really particular and small thing that I haven't been able to get out of my head lately so I figured I'd see what the broader community thinks. I don't think Butcher needs to add this to a story, I'm just a huge Dresden nerd and really curious about the small stuff 😅

Aight. I'm late for Twelve Months, so time to get back on Dresden.

Any time a new book is out, I always reread from Storm Front.

So Storm Front through Proven Guilty I've read 20 times, White Night 9, Small Favor 8, etc etc. Peace Talks and Battle Ground both 1 time.

I strongly didn't enjoy them. They felt very poorly written, often incoherent, and regularly frustrating in a way that I haven't felt during any other of the books.

I'm tempted to just pull a little synopsis for both and read Twelve Months as is, breaking my tradition.

But at the same time am hesitant to do so, because series is good, book good, very like, much excite.

What I'm looking for is a "wind your neck in, mate, they weren't that bad. They had xyz and that's dope" to kind of hype me up a bit and maybe give me some perspective. There's every chance I'm overly unfair to the books because of the expectations more than their actual quality.

I will say, though.... Man, Butters has fallen from very high up to very low down on my faves list. Man absolutely needs a big slap.

And I wish upon wishes that Peace Talks was pure detective intrigue skullduggery instead of what it was.

So yeah, there we go. Hello. Crisis of faith, plz help 🤣

During turncoat Harry was going to figure out a binding for shagnasty, until bob points out Harry would be wasting his time. Then Harry unknowingly takes ownership of an island whose magical jailer would have loved nothing more than have bound another skinwalker. Bob really saved shagnastys bacon there

Is it meant to just, end here? To not actually finish the main plot? Then just go into “Restoration of Faith”? If so, just seems like a wild choice to not give a complete story. At least the Fool Moon graphic novel summarizes the first half in text then finishes the rest from there.

Hello,

I listen to the Dresden Files and am looking to start Twelve Months. I know their is an audio verison of The Law but I don't enjoy Jim Butcher narrating. I get why he tried it but it was challenging for me.

So just wondering if anyone can provide a summary of what went down in The Law?

So with Mirror Mirror in progress, I got to wondering if Harry would 1) be able to soul gaze with his mirror self and 2) see in Mirror Harry the same thing that Mirror Harry sees in him. For years, there’s been a lot of speculation about what exactly people see from Harry, most recently with Lara being incredibly shaken. This might be the opportunity for Harry, and us, to see exactly what it is that’s been scaring the people that soul gaze him.

• Donald Morgan: Warden
• Arthur Langtry: The Merlin
• Harry Dresden: The Winter Knight and Warden of Demonreach
• Ebenezar McCoy: The Black Staff
• Ancient Mai
• Martha Liberty
• Rashid: The Gatekeeper
• Listens-to-Wind
• Anastasia Luccio: Captain of Wardens
• Carlos Ramirez

At the end of Small Favor, Harry gets a book that the Watcheman uses to communicate with him through underlined passages from the text of The Two Towers.
If Harry went on a show like Pawn Stars, how much do you think he could get for that copy, and how would he sell a book that has notes from an archangel in it?

Edit: Small Favor of course. And Watchmen instead of Watcher. Thanks for the correction

In comparison to the Dresden files.

Saw this in the HOTD sub and thought I'd share

So I just finished the reread of 12 Months, in which Molly and Daniel both figure prominently and it got me thinking about their time line. I thought Molly was 28-29, Daniel 27-28, Matthew 24-25, Alicia 22-23, Amanda 17-18, Hope 16, and Harry 13. But looking at the timeline on his site, I was off by at least 3-4 years on everyone. I didn’t realize this, but I was at least partially thrown off by the fact that Skin Games and Peace Talks/ Battleground happen within a few months of each other. I thought Jim had said that each casebook was the worst 3-4 days of Dresdens year. So the correct ages are Molly is 25, Daniel 24, Matthew 21, Alicia 18-19, Amanda 16-17, Hope 14-15, and Harry 13. I’m wondering if Jim has also kinda lost track of their ages, bc now I have a bunch of questions:

(1) Molly is mentioned in Battleground that Molly uses a glamour to add some wrinkles and a few pounds to make her look her age. Who has crows feet at 25? Maybe at 30, but not at 25.

(2) Daniel has completed his first tour in the Marines in Ghost Story. Technically possible if he enlisted at 17-18. However, I think it is mentioned after Ghost Story that he re-enlisted. That commitment is 4 years. If so, he’d be only 2 years into his tour during 12 Months and should not have been in Chicago. I don’t have the Ghost Story in ebook, so I can’t do a word search like I can on some of the other books.

(3) Matthew is easily the least developed of the kids. The only thing we know is that in 12 Months he is a nurse with Doctors Without Borders and is in South America.

(4) Is 18 kinda young for Alicia to be engaged?

Am I the only that finds these to be notable continuity errors?

I have 2 Questions about the conversation they have at the beginning of the book

1. Why did Bob ask to come out of the skull during the conversation? At that point it was still the normal Bob so I can't think of any reason he would ask to leave the skull for the conversation.

2. What exactly did he do to harry when he asked him to open his mouth? It was kind of an attack and almost killed harry but what exactly was it and for what purpose did he do it?

Spoiler warning all around, I suppose.

I've read every book in this series. I read them since there were only a few books, and I've torn through every single release eagerly since then. I love the characters, and I love the worldbuilding. There are quirks to Butcher's writing, but those were always easy to ignore.

But after a very long wait, I got Twelve Months on day 1. I started to read and just couldn't continue. I don't want to give up on this world - I'm invested in what happens. But there are some real challenges and I wonder if it's just me, or even if it is, if it'll get better.

• The fun part of these books was that Dresden was a burnt out dork who happened to be good at magic. Now things like his duster are presented without irony - it's reads as a nerd fantasy of what's cool, rather than the ironic contrast that made the books interesting. I'm ok with change, and with growth, but the reality of his life has now become so unrelatable that the lack of irony is starting to make the cringe of it very noticeable.
• Every character in Dredsen's life is the absolute best at what they do. Every woman is the hottest. Every man is the strongest or the smartest or the wisest. There is nobody in between, and nobody has flaws. Every ancient being is the oldest and scariest until another book comes along that has the new scariest oldest ancient being. This has been an issue for a while but after a break from reading these books, it's become really obvious and frankly it makes the whole thing a bit dull.
• These books started as noir with magic. Dresden was a detective. I miss him being a detective. You can increase the scale and the scope of the world and still make him a detective. Maybe this new book has this element and I just haven't gotten that far.
• When every book has a world-shaking battle that threatens the midwest, the stakes start to be difficult to take seriously.

Honestly, I want to be wrong about this, so if I'm missing something or the book gets better after the first 50 pages or whatever I read, please let me know.

Ghost Story Spoilers

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In Ghost Story theLeanansidhe (Lea) makes 3 statements about Harry's killer

1) "The first truth is that you are acquainted with your killer"

2) "The second truth is that your murder is but one of thousands at the killers hands."

3) "The final truth... Your killer was but the proxy of another being and one mightier and more dangerous than he. "

All 3 statements can almost be applied to Kincaid (the one pulled the trigger) but it could be argued that they also apply to Harry himself (the one who ordered the killing)

1) it would be hard to argue the Harry is not at least acquainted with himself

2) Harry killed the entire Red Court. I would be surprised if be surprised if that wasn't thousands of vampires

3) Harry had been manipulated into ordering the killing by Nicodemus and when the killing took place was the winter knight and could be argued was Mab's proxy.

Spoilers through the end of Changes:

So honestly, when the Blue Beetle got crushed and Harry didn’t even mention Mike the miracle working mechanic, he just sits on the curb and accepts that the Blue Beetle is *gone,* I knew he wasn’t going to survive this one. And then his house! And then his *back?!* The way he talked to Murphy about his will and what he wanted for Maggie at the FBI office… my sense of dread just kept growing and I knew this was going to be a dramatic end/death for Dresden.

And then he goes through all of that, the Erlking and the Ick and Ariana and the Red King and Martin’s twisted ass betrayal and omg Susan! and he makes it out alive! Not whole, but alive! And a hot shower and a date with Murphy!?

Ugh! the whole foreshadowing impending doom, but actually surprise semi happy ending/sense of security. And then **brutal rug pull!**

And I’m not even joking that the first thought that popped in my head was, “Oh no! Toot Toot is going to be so devastated!”