Battle Ground (The Dresden Files, #17)
Jim Butcher
Harry has faced terrible odds before. He has a long history of fighting enemies above his weight class. The Red Court of vampires. The fallen angels of the Order of the Blackened Denarius. The Outsiders. But this time it’s different. A being more powerful and dangerous on an order of magnitude beyond what the world has seen in a millennium is coming. And she’s bringing an army. The Last Titan has declared war on the city of Chicago, and has come to subjugate humanity, obliterating any who stand in her way. Harry’s mission is simple but impossible: Save the city by killing a Titan. And the attempt will change Harry’s life, Chicago, and the mortal world forever.
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0Well, that was a thing that happened.
Someone really should have sat Jim Butcher down and forced him to pare down both Peace Talks and Battle Ground, because they're obviously two halves of one novel that got way too bloated. All splitting them in two did was do each separate novel a disservice.
Spoiler for character deaths & end of the book reveals: All of that fighting, all of that chaos, and all we truly got out of it was Murphy being fridged? I don't care that she was taken to Valhalla because IT'S WHAT SHE DESERVES, but really??? Literally all she died for was to upset Harry. Yeah she took out a Jotun with a bazooka because SHE'S AWESOME, but overall...why? Why, if the only outcome was for Harry to go all Winter Mantle rage and then feel sad? Why.
Don't even get me started on the Justine reveal.
Wait wait, LOL, let's not forget HARRY AND LARA HAVE TO GET MARRIED?!? And now that Murphy is gone, I'm sure we'll get tons of Harry/Winter Mantle being horny followed by Harry being angsty and guilty about it, rinse and repeat.
I feel like the end of Battle Ground has provided the groundwork for a shift in the Dresden Files much like Changes did, but it's nowhere near as satisfying.
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