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Review - Grave Peril
Dec. 19th, 2009 11:48 pmGrave Peril got me slightly more interested in the series again -- I didn't care that much about Fool Moon: I was still interested in the series, but I wanted something new. This book introduced new things -- a wider plot, one hopes, with a war beginning, and certainly new characters and concepts. My favourite of these was Michael, the Fist of God. I'm drawn to characters who have a lot of faith (not necessarily in God: in anything), and it's also interesting the way he has a family and a support system and he isn't someone that Harry simply has to protect (or rather, that Harry sees himself as having to protect all the time). I hope he comes into it more in the future, and I wish he'd shown up before -- a bigger cast helps dispel any problems with the repetition. I also hope to see more of Thomas, and I hope that Susan isn't going to completely disappear.
In this book I noticed the whole "Harry is permanently running on empty" thing a bit less. I still noticed it, and it still irritated me -- I suppose it wouldn't really make sense for him to be on top of things and know exactly what he's doing, 'cause there isn't much story in it, but it seems like he starts scraping the bottom of the barrel around page fifty and carries on, still able to throw out big bursts of energy whenever the plot requires it.
The plot thread of Harry's Godmother is interesting, and I do want to see more of her -- I'm hoping it's something that's going to keep building, being woven in with other big events, and then have a book to itself. That's what I'd do, anyway.
The problems I had with the misogyny... I'm still happy -- perhaps happier, now -- to chalk that up to Dresden's character. I hope he develops further, but it was good to see a) Michael taking care of Harry, not a woman, and b) Susan saying "save me from chauvinist pigs".
Also, this line made me smile: "I'd hate to find out the universe really wasn't conspiring against me. It would jerk the rug out form under my persecution complex."
In this book I noticed the whole "Harry is permanently running on empty" thing a bit less. I still noticed it, and it still irritated me -- I suppose it wouldn't really make sense for him to be on top of things and know exactly what he's doing, 'cause there isn't much story in it, but it seems like he starts scraping the bottom of the barrel around page fifty and carries on, still able to throw out big bursts of energy whenever the plot requires it.
The plot thread of Harry's Godmother is interesting, and I do want to see more of her -- I'm hoping it's something that's going to keep building, being woven in with other big events, and then have a book to itself. That's what I'd do, anyway.
The problems I had with the misogyny... I'm still happy -- perhaps happier, now -- to chalk that up to Dresden's character. I hope he develops further, but it was good to see a) Michael taking care of Harry, not a woman, and b) Susan saying "save me from chauvinist pigs".
Also, this line made me smile: "I'd hate to find out the universe really wasn't conspiring against me. It would jerk the rug out form under my persecution complex."
