UNspoiled! The Dresden Files

Hey there, fine folks. It's time for the next installment of The Dresden Files, and I'm here to tell you that Harry isn't ready, and neither is RoShawn.
Let's have a moment of silence for Bock, who only just got done telling Harry that he causes too much trouble and had better not come back to the store anymore when Harry starts causing trouble again. Well, that's not really fair; it's Alicia AKA the Corpsetaker that really causes the trouble here, but shit starts to get messy once Harry decides to step in. For fuck's sake, he sends a ghoul flying through a wall and right across the street into the facing building.
Harry only just manages to get out of this scrape thanks to John Marcone swooping in with Ms. Gard and saving his ass, but it's not going to come without a price. Marcone tells Harry that the pool of cold energy he felt on Wacker was the result of something happening to one of his associates, and he needs Harry to look into it. The interesting thing about Marcone's associate is that he did not die, so what the hell happened to him?
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Listeners! RoShawn and I are delighted to bring you this episode of Dead Beat because it has Waldo Butters in it, and because I found an illustration with him playing his one-man polka band. If anyone knows the artist please tell me because I couldn't find a source.
This episode, Harry wanders around Chicago looking for the spots of dark energy that he was directed to by Morty's ghosts, and the second stop at the Field Museum turns out to be a crime scene. Not just any crime scene, either; a scientist was murdered in one of the offices in an incredibly grisly way that requires certain body parts to be displayed in a baggie beside the corpse in the morgue. Yeesh. Harry discusses things with Rawlins, a cop who knows that what Harry deals with is real because he himself came face to face with a monster years ago that only got stopped by a shotgun full of rock salt.
The next stop is the morgue, and Harry brings Butters so they can try to figure out what the hell Grevane wanted him for. Someone else wants to get into the morgue too, and Harry recognizes Alicia and Li, the alleged students that went missing after their superior was murdered at the field museum. Turns out they're not human, and Harry realizes him and Butters have to get out of there, fast. They take off with the thumb drive found in Bony Tony's corpse, and head to Billy and Georgia's to see what's on it.
16 numbers. Great.
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Lovely listeners, RoShawn and I are back and we hope you missed us! We're getting into the next phase of the story here as Harry borrows a giant, cumbersome SUV and tries to understand his brother a little better.
While these chapters aren't action-heavy, there's a lot going on character-wise which I really enjoyed. Harry going on the run with Thomas was particularly revealing, not just for Thomas but for Harry himself. It's clear as day to Thomas how Harry feels about Karrin, but Harry has talked himself out of the possibility of anything happening. Understandably, Thomas finds this infuriating because if fighting for his relationship with Justine were an option, he would absolutely do it. In his opinion, Harry is just taking it all lying down.
Then there's the little side story that's bothering RoShawn; who the hell beat the shit out of Harry's car? There doesn't seem to be any supernatural force behind the attack, and she can't figure out why they wouldn't have fucked up the engine. So what is going on there?
And then there's the bizarre dream Harry has about his father. His dad says something about not being "allowed to contact him until others crossed the line", and RoShawn theorizes wildly about what this could mean.
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Hey there, you wonderful listeners you. I feel sure that I've used the art for this post before, but it's hard to find good fanart of Billy & Georgia, and the many of the Butters illustrations have spoilers. So please forgive me if I'm recycling.
These three chapters are mostly Butters-free, because Harry drops the little guy off at his stronghold of an apartment (not exactly the fortress RoShawn was expecting) and goes to Bock Ordered Books to find a copy of a book that Grevane was tapping on his leg when he attacked Butters. That is where Harry meets Sheila, a lovely store clerk who thinks that Harry is robbing the place at first, then helps him to locate the super-rare and super-expensive copy of Die Lied Der Erlking.
Then Harry gets jumped by two mysterious figures outside the bookstore, who try to take the book away, or at least try to convince Harry to destroy it. He's a little fascinated because the dark energy that surrounds them doesn't have the same nauseating quality that Grevane's did. Also, they seem to know more about the White Council and its vulnerabilities than Harry does.
I hope you enjoy the episode, and I will see you in 2 weeks!

BUTTERS!
I think we can all agree that Butters is one of the most loveable dorks ever, and I also think we can all agree that Harry better protect this little dweeb with everything he's got or we are all going to be majorly pissed.
These three chapters all concern Butters and his sudden involvement in the plot, because this is no "Oh geez I got accidentally caught up on the periphery of Harry's adventure" kind of situation. Nope, it was pure dumb luck that Harry was at the morgue at all, because the Bad Guys(TM) come looking specifically for Butters. In fact, if anything it's HARRY who is getting caught up in the periphery of BUTTERS' adventure. What a fun little reversal.
The final chapter in the trio is Harry trying to explain to Butters that there's a whole wild universe out there that Butters bumped up against when he said that the vampire bodies were "humanoid but definitely non-human", and even though Butters literally just watched a dead man sprint after their car, he has a hard time accepting it. It's okay, Butters. You'll get there.
Hopefully.
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IT IS FINALLY HERE! Y'all I am so excited about it! And how great is this illustration of Harry being super irritated with Thomas while Thomas just lounges nonchalantly next to a pair of forgotten black lace panties?

These opening chapters are chock full of good stuff. First, Harry wants to murder Thomas, just a teensy bit. Then, Murphy announces to Harry that she's gonna go bang the shit out of Kincaid and asks him to water her plants. How coy. How sexy.

Then, of course, is the whole thing with Bob.

I was going to use an illustration of the Evil Bob scene, but shockingly enough came up empty on all my searches. Suffice it to say that Bob has a checkered past that Harry wasn't aware of, and that he's not precisely proud of his actions or associations during that time. In fact, he's SO not-proud that he's unwilling to open up the memories of that period until Harry issues him a direct order. Which Harry very soon regrets.

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Hey there, you beautiful, patient, good-hearted people. I'm here with the final episode of Blood Rites and I'm ready to bounce off the walls with excitement that Dead Beat is about to start. Don't mind me it's just that when [redacted] does that thing with [redacted] and we finally [redacted][redacted] it's SO GOOD.

Okay so these chapters. Harry manages to get one over on Lord Raith, with a trick that's such a slow burn it's almost mean. Basically Harry doesn't need to beat Lord Raith, he just needs to weaken the vampire so completely that Lara can step in and totally enthrall him. Which she does. With relish.

Meanwhile, Thomas has to be disinherited because it's so widely known how much Lord Raith hates his son that it would be suspicious if he's allowed to stay at home, so Thomas is about to move in with Harry. For a downpayment on rent, he pays off Harry's debt to Kincaid. Which should take care of the rent for the next 60 or 70 years.

Meanwhile, some old shit is getting brought back up. Lashiel's sigil shows up on Harry's hand, He Who Walks Behind rears his ugly head, and Harry's fire magic seems to be turning into hellfire. What does it all mean?

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Alright, listeners, it's almost the end of the 6th book in the series, and our valiant heroes are in some really deep shit.

These 3 chapters are kind of just a series of unfortunate events. Harry and Karen get caught up in a gun fight that injures two people and causes Lara to have to clean up a mess instead of playing backup. Then he and Murphy get headed off by other bodyguards and Harry has to use a ton of energy to flip a car. Is it an amazing and awesome scene? Yes, absolutely. But would I have preferred he still had that energy to tap into when they ran into Lord Raith? You bet.

Then there's the terrible scene where Murphy is being held hostage and Raith monologues for like, half an hour about how he's going to torture, rape, and eventually kill her. It's really hard to read and even harder to listen to Dresden's internal monologue about how he's helpless to act and Murphy is going to have to get herself out of this one. Thanks for nothing, Harry!

Hey there, do you need something to distract you from the terrible trash-fire that is our current existence?

Here you go.

I am so late on this one, guys, and I'm so sorry. I edited the whole episode and then stopped to record Harry Potter live, and totally forgot to ever post it. I suck! Blerg.

Anyway, I hope that you can all forgive me, and that you enjoy listening to RoShawn and I talk about the incredible fight scene between our quartet of good guys and the scourge of vamps. It's a pretty intense scene, with a strange peek into Harry's Sight which makes RoShawn question everything about Kincaid.

In the end, though, she's really happy with how everything turned out, despite the slightly anticlimactic ending to Mavra's "life". RoShawn thought that Mavra would stick around, and is a little disappointed that such a good villain was dispatched so easily.

Thanks so much to all of you for listening, and again I'm so sorry for falling behind!

Art credit: https://christophercrow.deviantart.com/art/Dresden-and-Murphy-338621366