The new short story is about 90 pages or so long and is titled Aftermath. All from Murphys point of view and i think Butcher did a good job talking from her viewpoint and it made the story more novel than alot of the other short stories.

Minor spoilers to follow, not enough to ruin the story but enough so that i felt it was worth covering them for people who don't want any spoilers at all

Unfortunately we find out nothing at all about Dresden or the shooter in the story. The little information were given is that the bullet was from a high enough powered rifle that it went through two walls of the water beetle and into the lake and that Dresdens body had not been recovered from the lake. So what we've go is a giant bloody stain on the boat with a trail leading over the side into the water, no bullet to be recovered, and no body. The bulk of the story is about Murphy handling a mess that Harry normally would have and how she deals with it without him. So we'll have to wait for the next book in the series to find out anything more. The teaser for that book is out and it does say that Harry is a spirit and doesn't have access to magic and that Chicago is full of spirits with a grudge for him.

 

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I bought it today along with the new Rachel Caine novel.

I was planning on reading it tonight then posting about it.



I will skip your spoilers section until I finish it.

 

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The story was interesting and I enjoyed it but like you said it tells us absolutely nothing we didn't already know. It even ends on basically the same note Changes ended on. It doesn't even address what Murphy is going to do in the future which is one thing I was really hoping to see in this story; all it did was introduce new possibilities.

I'm guessing that it is introducing the next arc of the main series with further Fomor activity.

 

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Not really a fan of the Dresden files tbh. If I want crime there are better authors. If I want fantasy there are better authors. Reading a hybrid just to get some of both doesn't float my boat. Atleast not when it's just mediocre bits of both.

 

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They have little to nothing to do with crime.

 

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GET OFF MY PLANET!

 

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Mediocre? Really? Did you even read any of them?

lots of people get turned off by the first couple of novels (especially book 1) because they're mediocre. i've started more than one person on book 3 or 4 and told them to go back and read the others as prequels for just that reason.

 

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i listened to books 1 and 2 instead of reading them because i didn't have the patience. i just played them while playing an mmo and was happy with it. i don't think i'd have enjoyed reading them honestly. i've loved 3+ though.

 

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I remember thinking book one was average but I really liked book two. Chances are my predilection for werewolves elevated book two in my eyes.

 

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