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beccaelizabeth ([personal profile] beccaelizabeth) wrote2011-04-08 02:53 am

Jim Butcher: Changes

You know I got home all tired at about 3pm and said 'tired now, sleeping'? Well that didn't work, so I picked up a book.
... it is now about three am and I just finished the book.

So, that worked then.

And I think I liked the ending. It's not that I dislike Harry, it's just that he spent the whole book digging himself a deeper hole and dragging his friends in with him, and then did a really bad thing, and after that a happy ending? Wouldn't fit.
I know his reasons. Writer put him in a corner. I am not fond of that corner.

Also I like the feel of it, that ha-ha *splat* ending, after we thought it was over.

... I'd feel completely different about it if... well, if a lot of things, really, but this time I liked the road runner splat.

Partly because it's a first person narrated story that didn't end until 'oncoming train'. It's not quite the same as ending it a couple sentences earlier.

I like the Dresden Files for all the strong women, Murphy and the Sidhe women and all. They're strong like *thump* and strong like having their own agendas.
I might dislike the Dresden Files for the hell they put women through, but Harry always goes through worse, so *shrugs*


It's still closest to the urban fantasy detective stories I wanted out of some of the female point of view books I've read, but most of them turned into paranormal romance or got really creepy without noticing it, so not so good.


So I liked Changes. But I think I'll wait for the paperback on the next one. I'm not urgently rushing to go grab it.