Battle Ground by Jim Butcher
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2/5. Yeah, I dunno, I think I'm in the place with this series where I'll wait until it's finished and skip ahead and read the last book. Because right now this is going places that literally had me say "nope!" out loud to my living room. Specifically at Marcone being a Denarian, which is an interesting AU that I would, like, skim on the AO3 once and never read again. Oh also, Harry is considered a magical criminal yet again, which JFC, yawn, can we stop with this. Oh and there's the Murphy (in a really shitty way, and also clearly in order to open the way for whatever nonsense is about to happen with Lara, god help us all, because women are infinitely disposable, y'know) and Hendricks (in a deeply unnecessary way since the person he was defending would have survived the hit), which didn't really phase me, but I mention it since I suspect some of you would want to be spoiled for that.
Oh also also, someone clearly has told Butcher all about the brief-lived slash fandom,* because there are at least two har har funny jokes about the main slash pairing. I only had to cover my face in pain a little.
*I will not hear of the other explanation, that he reads in it. I mean, there are lots of authors who read in their own fandoms, obviously, and as long as they are polite and pseudonymous, more power to them. But the thought of Butcher inhabiting some of those fannish spaces is deeply, deeply squicky to me.
2/5. Yeah, I dunno, I think I'm in the place with this series where I'll wait until it's finished and skip ahead and read the last book. Because right now this is going places that literally had me say "nope!" out loud to my living room. Specifically at Marcone being a Denarian, which is an interesting AU that I would, like, skim on the AO3 once and never read again. Oh also, Harry is considered a magical criminal yet again, which JFC, yawn, can we stop with this. Oh and there's the Murphy (in a really shitty way, and also clearly in order to open the way for whatever nonsense is about to happen with Lara, god help us all, because women are infinitely disposable, y'know) and Hendricks (in a deeply unnecessary way since the person he was defending would have survived the hit), which didn't really phase me, but I mention it since I suspect some of you would want to be spoiled for that.
Oh also also, someone clearly has told Butcher all about the brief-lived slash fandom,* because there are at least two har har funny jokes about the main slash pairing. I only had to cover my face in pain a little.
*I will not hear of the other explanation, that he reads in it. I mean, there are lots of authors who read in their own fandoms, obviously, and as long as they are polite and pseudonymous, more power to them. But the thought of Butcher inhabiting some of those fannish spaces is deeply, deeply squicky to me.
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Date: 2020-10-07 10:54 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2020-10-07 11:08 pm (UTC)Right, exactly. Thomas update: still inexplicably straight.
The Dresden/Marcone jokes are surprisingly good-natured. I mean, Harry says "ew" to one of them, but in context it's clearly about more than just Marcone being a dude. Still. I prefer to keep his sticky gross fingers off of our fannish creativity.