Urban Fantasy discussion

In each of the Dresden books Harry goes through some changes. But the changes in this book may be the most extreme-- so far. What do you think?

Sometimes I find them tedious in the way they cause him to worry about relating to his friends and others and we are constantly hit over the head with the fact that he can still be himself if he chooses to be -- monster inside him or not. We know Harry will always do the right thing -- he'll die doing it. So rather than fight with himself constantly about it internally, lets just see him deal with it. He's going to spend more time fretting about what could happen that what actually will happen. New powers or not, he will do the right thing!! That's why he's Harry.

I like the new powers of the Winter Knight Starborn! Problem is that things are getting worse, so you can imagine that the trouble will become commensurately stronger, too. But Harry still has all his friends behind him, too.

On a side note, I really don't like his namby-pamby whining when it comes to Maggie though. She's his daughter for Pete sake!

As his daughter, he will do nearly anything to keep Maggie safe... Including bitching/ complaining/ agonizing about how much he will do.

I agree that he is agonizing about Maggie too much.

I think he agonizes about a relationship with Molly too much as well. When he revealed that he wasn't in love with Molly, that was a bit of a surprise, and I'm not sure I buy it.

And he needs to be more honest with himself the way Murphy is at the end, though originally I wanted them together.

As for changing: how much did he actually change in this book. He's bull-headed, and I thought that would change after Ghost Story, but it didn't. Who takes a gun to Mab's head? Especially after learning about her role in the world?

How will this power change him will be the question. With the Fallen, he had the temptation but not the easy access to the power. Now he just has it in droves.

My other concern is that the enemy has become vastly stronger than it was. We've seen Harry grow over these 15 books -- what 15 years, 10 years. But he is already been fighting things much stronger than him, and now his enemy has become incomprehensibly stronger. I just don't see this as sustainable at this point.

Don't get me wrong, though-- I loved this book.