I feel like Dresden and Marcone getting dressed was the setup for a scene during the actual peace talks.

It also reeks of Butcher knowing that the fangirls will be creaming. He knows what sells and he knows Dresden/Marcone is buttermilk to the hordes of fans who also ship Snarry and Dean/Sam.

 

The trailer was actually pretty sweet. The casting was decent. I kinda wish we had that as a tv series now.

 

I'm thinking these two books might give us a TV show. I'm pretty sure we would have had another one had the gap between books not been so long.

Also, Q/A so far:

Well.... shit.

Who is gonna die and what powerup is Dresden gonna get?

Edit: Especially as this mini-story is after Battle Grounds apparently.

 

This is really awesome and it’s fucking with my sleeping schedule big time.

 

Two books in a single year? Wow. That's a delight I haven't seen from Butcher since he was working on Codex Alera.

Hoping for Murphy to die!

 

I feel obligated to ask why?

 

Doesn't matter, Murphy is based on his ex wife. She's getting killed off soon. Also she's bound to be touching 50 soon, right?

 

Murphy's roughly the same age as Dresden, which as-of Skin Game was mid-late thirties. Dresden's in his early-mid 20s in Storm Front (I wanna say 23, but could be wrong) and it's at most 15 years between Storm Front and Skin Game, likely closer to 12.

Both Dresden and Murphy should be somewhere in the 35-40 range.

 

How about Butters, so we can pretend the goddamn Lightsaber of the Cross never happened?

 

I don't care what and of y'all say, I'm excited and looking forward to sinking into two new Dresden novels.

@Lindsey thanks for posting that short story. I hadn't read it before now, but it made me happy.

 

Main argument for Murphy dying is the sheer amount of plot armour she's had over the course of the series, honestly. She's a great character (sometimes a shitty person) but I just feel like it's the sort of thing Butcher would do. Let Dresden/Murphy have some nice, cutesy, domestic bliss and then right before the big Peace Talks, she dies. Probably due to Fomor Fuckery.

Butters can also die because there's no way he beats Nicodemus and nothing will convince me of otherwise.

As for Molly @Ched I am deeply troubled to hear such heresy from ya.

Either way, two books. TWO FUCKING BOOKS YA'LL!

 

I'm with you on ghost story. COuldnt care about that. I enjoyed Cold Days a good deal though. TBH ive not seen any decline in Butcher's work. Just the opposite actually. With the exception of Ghost Story (again meh) I actually feel like his books steadily improved over the series. The first couple like Storm Front or Fool Moon were ok but nothing special. I think his writing continued to improve with every book, hitting a peak somewhere around Proven Guilty and its pretty much stayed at that level since (again with the exception of ghost story)

 

This goes over a lot of the old established stuff such as how he came to write the books etc, but it also has him explain what happened to Peace Talks/Battle Ground.

TLDR: Book ended up well over 300k words, with a hard-left turn at the middle, and the publishers went "uh dude, this is way too long." Hence the split into two books.

On an unrelated topic, I am digging the beard.

 

Okay so turns out Murphy is 43/44 but still.

 

I came across an official book 'trailer' (I'd never heard of someone doing this before, but here it is). This looks to have been put together by Butcher and then some of his beta / mod team from his old forums.

 

Nobody flame this man, Im'ma watch it again.

 

Ah damn, it was already posted, woops. I'd originally posted this on the other thread before realizing this thread existed too and asked for them to be merged...