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Trailer for Dresden Files book 16 Peace Talks. Book out July 14, 2020. Book 17, Battle Ground, releasing Sep. 29, 2020(!)
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My fiancé went on a rant about The Dresden files during our first date - started reading the books to add more to talk about on our next date. I remember thinking by the end of book 4 "if this doesn't work out, at least she'll have introduced me to this". Assuming Corona doesn't ruin it, it'll be fun that the next to book releases sandwich our wedding.
edit: lol at how cheesy the video is. Those wigs. 👌🏻
edit: lol at how cheesy the video is. Those wigs. 👌🏻
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I love how this reads like you're trolling but is completely accurate.
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Vampire porn studio was the book before the necromancers (and the ZOMBIE T-REX), so you've got a few to catch up on.
Been a while since i serious into urban fantasy. I think the Iron Druid was the last series i was really into. But that went from Urban to straight fantasy fairly quick
It's been so long since the last one that I've forgotten so much. Given just how many books there are, I'll probably jump into the new ones without trying to catch up.
The last couple added a lot of lore that'll probably be important. I bet the stuff post Changes will all be important and everything prior is mostly Goosebumps fluff.
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Nah, I'm thinking that at bare minimum, Death Rites, Proven Guilty, White Night, and Small Favor will be important here.
And at some point Cowl's gonna matter again. Last time we saw him was in WN, maybe.
I would love for him to be relevant in Peace Talks. Seems just like the kind of thing that Cowl and his group would want to fuck up.
That's a fair list given the content alluded to in the teaser. But I think Battleground will shake it up towards pushing the larger narrative that the series seem to be heading towards.
They've been releasing preview chapters for the last 3 weeks btw
Peace Talks Chapter 1
This summer brings not one but TWO Dresden Files novels! Peace Talks arrives July 14th, and Battle Ground hits September 29th. Preorder both through the Jim-Butcher.com store! My brother ruined a p…
www.jim-butcher.com
Peace Talks Chapter 2
This summer brings not one but TWO Dresden Files novels! Peace Talks arrives July 14th, and Battle Ground hits September 29th. Preorder both through the Jim-Butcher.com sto…
www.jim-butcher.com
Peace Talks Chapter 3
This summer brings not one but TWO Dresden Files novels! Peace Talks arrives July 14th, and Battle Ground hits September 29th. Preorder both through the Jim-Butcher.com sto…
www.jim-butcher.com
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AHhhhhh fuck it's still good. God I'm looking forward to this one.They've been releasing preview chapters for the last 3 weeks btw
Peace Talks Chapter 1
This summer brings not one but TWO Dresden Files novels! Peace Talks arrives July 14th, and Battle Ground hits September 29th. Preorder both through the Jim-Butcher.com store! My brother ruined a p…www.jim-butcher.comPeace Talks Chapter 2
This summer brings not one but TWO Dresden Files novels! Peace Talks arrives July 14th, and Battle Ground hits September 29th. Preorder both through the Jim-Butcher.com sto…www.jim-butcher.comPeace Talks Chapter 3
This summer brings not one but TWO Dresden Files novels! Peace Talks arrives July 14th, and Battle Ground hits September 29th. Preorder both through the Jim-Butcher.com sto…www.jim-butcher.com
One month to go! I think I'm gonna try to cram in a series reread by then.
Unexpected, but I'll take it.
Will have to read some good synopsis on the last couple of books, I don't have the time to reread 15 books.
Will have to read some good synopsis on the last couple of books, I don't have the time to reread 15 books.
Chap 4 is out
Peace Talks Chapter 4
This summer brings not one but TWO Dresden Files novels! Peace Talks arrives July 14th, and Battle Ground hits September 29th. Preorder both through the Jim-Butcher.com sto…
www.jim-butcher.com
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Fuuuuuck nooooooooChap 4 is out
Peace Talks Chapter 4
This summer brings not one but TWO Dresden Files novels! Peace Talks arrives July 14th, and Battle Ground hits September 29th. Preorder both through the Jim-Butcher.com sto…www.jim-butcher.com
Think I fell off somewhere around the 10th - 12th book when
I get after so many books you gotta do stuff to keep it fresh but it just seemed OTT. Still, maybe I should give the new ones a go
Harry dies and Molly turns into the Winter Court princess thing, delving into Hades' realm
I get after so many books you gotta do stuff to keep it fresh but it just seemed OTT. Still, maybe I should give the new ones a go
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That was 12-14, actually.
Harry dies in book 12, Changes, on the very last page, is a ghost through 13, and Molly doesn't become the Winter Lady until 14, Cold Days.
We have a Dresden Files thread? NICE. It's my all-time favorite book series, and I'm really excited about Peace Talks and Battle Ground. I've been debating taking a day off work to just sit and read Peace Talks, but I don't my kids will let me even if I did.
The book trailer really makes me want someone to do another attempt at a tv show.
So with Skin Game also read ages ago I guess I'm all caught up. 15 books is crazy, this must be the longest series I'm invested in.
So with Skin Game also read ages ago I guess I'm all caught up. 15 books is crazy, this must be the longest series I'm invested in.
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The most recent update says it is called "The Olympian Affair" and he will start writing it soon
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I have a feeling Eb is gonna bite it during this or Battle Ground for sure, wonder who the backstabber will be though, I don't think it's gonna be like Murphy or Thomas, so prolly someone like Carlos also if Thomas dies we're canceling Jim. Butter can die.
He already has and plans to finish it by the end of summer.
oh wow was vaguely aware that peace talks was finally coming out at some point this year but didn't think the next one would be that quick
nice to see,been a bit of a bummer not having any new ones these past 6 years after them being so consistent for so long
this series not only got me hooked on itself but urban fantasy as a broader genre as well
nice to see,been a bit of a bummer not having any new ones these past 6 years after them being so consistent for so long
this series not only got me hooked on itself but urban fantasy as a broader genre as well
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I would say that killing off Ebenezer right before the council apparently gets tossed back into open warfare feels very DF, so I'd bet on him dying at the end of Peace Talks . Thomas I hope is safe but it would be a real kick to the balls to Harry for Thomas to die right as we find out he's got a kid on the way so I'm not expecting him to make it either 😭
As for who kills Ebenezer, no clue. Maybe Cristo.
As for who kills Ebenezer, no clue. Maybe Cristo.
And cool news about the Aeronaut's Windlass sequel, I liked the first one.
double post chapter 5 is out
Peace Talks Chapter 5
This summer brings not one but TWO Dresden Files novels! Peace Talks arrives July 14th, and Battle Ground hits September 29th. Preorder both through the Jim-Butcher.com sto…
www.jim-butcher.com
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Rudolph, that little prick. Been ages since I even thought about him. 2 more weeeeeksdouble post chapter 5 is out
Peace Talks Chapter 5
This summer brings not one but TWO Dresden Files novels! Peace Talks arrives July 14th, and Battle Ground hits September 29th. Preorder both through the Jim-Butcher.com sto…www.jim-butcher.com
Harry was looking at his friends teenage daughter going on about 'she got tits like her mother', fucking creepo
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Shiiit, I'd forgotten about that.
Most of the male gaze stuff is sort of... not excusable, but explainable by Harry himself being a horndog, but the stuff with Molly has not aged well, yeah.
Final chapter before release in a week.
This is all VERY summer knight-ish
This is all VERY summer knight-ish
Peace Talks Chapter 6
This summer brings not one but TWO Dresden Files novels! Peace Talks arrives July 14th, and Battle Ground hits September 29th. Preorder both through the Jim-Butcher.com store! If you missed Ch…
www.jim-butcher.com
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Well I'm only like 11 chapters in and oh man I love it to pieces. Ahhhhhhhhhhh it's good to be back.
I'll probably make an OT tomorrow if nobody else does.
I'll probably make an OT tomorrow if nobody else does.
It-s not bad, just heavily backloaded and the first 90% feels like the first 50% of a regular DF novel.
Definitely not. The broad plan for the series is to release another 4-5 "case files" novels before wrapping everything up with an epic trilogy. Butcher has been planning on releasing the series like this - 20 or so stand alone novels leading up to a trilogy - since before the first book was published, so I'm excited to see where it all ends up...in another decade or so.
Nice! Sounds good! And by case file novels, you mean the ones that have the short stories collected from other random anthologies right? I gave up on those and the comic series a while back. Just felt like I was getting the placement and timeline confused and reading some stuff, I'd already read.
Ah, no, sorry to have created confusion. The plan has been for there to be 20ish stand alone novels and then the big trilogy finale. That isn't counting the short story collections or the graphic novels. Peace Talks will be Book 16 of the series; you can see the official breakdown and confirmation of this plan here.
Just finished and man, it is so good to have Dresden back. I love this series.
One quick side note, if you haven't read the short story anthology Brief Cases, you should, because a LOT of stuff from those stories play into this book. Not anything that's going to make it impossible to understand, but there are a bunch of characters and references who originate from there.
One quick side note, if you haven't read the short story anthology Brief Cases, you should, because a LOT of stuff from those stories play into this book. Not anything that's going to make it impossible to understand, but there are a bunch of characters and references who originate from there.
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Just finished. I would've been done by like 5AM but I tried to drag out the last 10 or so chapters. It's so good to have these back. Nothing else quite like 'em.
This was much more of a reunion book than I was expecting, but it makes sense, really. Would agree that people should read the short stories - a lot of them take up a lot of pagespace.
Soliciting OT subtitles now btw, if anybody has any ideas.
This was much more of a reunion book than I was expecting, but it makes sense, really. Would agree that people should read the short stories - a lot of them take up a lot of pagespace.
Soliciting OT subtitles now btw, if anybody has any ideas.