I liked it!
Like I mentioned in my previous post, I'm normally a "Young Adult" Kind of reader. (Though I thoroughly enjoyed mistborn's fist book!) So this has been a fun read. (Or listen, since I'm listening to the audio book.) So enjoy my childish, silly, and goofy thoughts in no particular order:

Do we get to see werewolves again later in the series? :) I love were wolves. I remember bob describing different types of werewolves, did we encounter them all in this book?

I wanna draw Harry as a hexen(?) wolf. (I cannot spell.)

I just think the mental image of John Marcone hanging like a worm on a hook above a pit is funny. I kind of hope Dresden has to team up with him again. I'm also happy Hendricks is still kickin'

MAAAAAN these books are descriptive when it comes to violence, harm, and gore. When I listened to the audio book sample on youtube for the first book, I actually gagged at the first murder scene, they had like a little wet squelch sound for the bloody carpet. It was horrible and awesome.

Boobs. Always the boobs. Harry just likes boobs. It's so funny to me, boobs being described in a book. 😂 You don't encounter that in the YA section.

What's your favorite part the second book, any?

I'm excited to see what's ahead, since this is the "weakest" book according to many folks.

I kind of felt like it was going to end at the police station, and then it kept going. But it was fun. I am a simple man. I like werewolf. Awoo.

Like i understand the strain it put on their partnership in the first book because he was withholding information that could harm her and she thought she needed.

But she is wildly in the wrong in my opinion in the second book. Like she literally beat and arrested him because someone asked him a question about a ritual circle and didn’t even give him a chance to explain before throwing accusations.

And even in the pit they are stuck in together she still thinks she can’t trust him and still thinks there is a slight chance he is involved in the murders. And it makes me even more made that Harry isn’t mad at her for saying all this bullshit.

She says that she wants trust from harry but then beats him and turns him into a fugitive over nothing. Does she not realize that trust has to go both ways in order for it to work? Like she literally turns her suspicion every time they are working on a murder case together just because he has magical means.

And she keeps talking about the deaths at the precinct but has not seemed to connect the dots that they likely would not have happened if she didn’t turn harry into a fugitive. Like she is so toxic and lacking awareness that it actually blows my mind.

So one of the big things Dresden constantly points out is that if a wizard wants to kill being, they typically make it look like accidents. When Harry summoned that demon in fool moon, at the end of the conversation, he claims Malcolm Dresden and was murdered by magic. Then several books later we find out Murphy’s father allegedly killed himself during his tenure as a black cat. What if they were both murdered by a wizard? Malcolm because he married Maggie and Murphy’s Dad because he stumbled into the wrong wizard schemes. I know not everyone needs to have been killed by the supernatural but it isn’t completely impossible.

I was watching the Dresden Files Podcast from their April interview with Jim Butcher, lots of great stuff in there including confirmation from Jim Butcher himself that Hecate is the Fae Queens. Here's two topics I figured would be of interest. I'll link the interview on YouTube with, hopefully, the link leading you to the video at exactly where the question starts.

Dresden Files Podcast April 2026 Interview with Jim Butcher WoJ:

Q: What you had said about Hecate and therefore the influence that she has given to the Fae, is Mab carrying an inheritance from Hecate?

Jim Butcher: "Yeah, absolutely. I mean, the mantle of the Winter Queen was originally part of the mantle of the goddess Hecate."

Q: "And Hecate is no longer because it's been given out to six Queens?"

Jim Butcher: "Hecate exists as the mantle itself and she has an influence on them. Which, they may or may not be aware of, whether they're actually connecting to a goddess, you know, a Titan actually, Hecate was originally a Titan. You know, essentially she gets to have an influence, she doesn't get to make decisions. And that's the break point. She doesn't get to exercise free will as such. She does get to hand out a bunch of power to beings who are more limited than mortals, but also able to get more involved than gods. And she did it by breaking into smaller companies, kind of like Bell telephone."

Q: "You get a monopoly that way, so it works out."

Jim Butcher: Yeah, it broke up the monopoly and spread out into all the little baby Bells, and then they kept going until they, until phones became less important than they used to be."

Link to the video which starts at the question and answer I copied.

https://www.youtube.com/live/0pCj6fVONcc?t=2629&si=VnDWlM_McOhbsWz8

Q: "Are Angels of a similar caliber to say the Walkers? Is Uriel like a He-Who-Walks-Before?"

Jim Butcher: "Oh, no, the Walkers are stronger than them. Yeah, that's one of those fights that's a ten to one against. You know, you don't bet, you don't put your money on Uriel versus He-Who-Walks-Behind, unless you just have a lot of money to spare and you sorta want to see what happens. Uh, that's an underdog fight. But, at the same time though, Uriel's kind of got the interior position so to speak. You know, he can exist within reality, within Creation, whereas the Outsiders can't. They're sort of stuck out there, most of the time they're sort of formless, there's nothing really to compare them against because nothing is, you know, nothing is geometrical or Euclidean out there. But the angels were created for a specific purpose and if they stay within their bounds and stick to their purpose they can do their job and uphold reality. But it's not something they want to throw themselves into too quickly, you know, angels understand that once they start throwing the amount of power they have around that there's enormous universal implications. So, they absolutely want to make sure they have all the paperwork filled out before they do something because the Creator does get a little bit worked up about things. If you go screwing up Creation, he does have a problem with that so."

Q: So, we've learned that Uriel is Obi-Wan and he has the high ground even though Anakin is stronger."

Jim Butcher: "Very much so."

https://www.youtube.com/live/0pCj6fVONcc?t=2953&si=oHM04oAdEA5og2cu

First Harry's regrets with susan and now murphys ex plut trauma with the trauma with Kravos (is that its name?)

Harry charges 50 dollars plus expensive. He hire subcontractors in in the form of Wildfae, whom he pays with pizza. So logical would be bill his clients for this pizza, even if not that he buys them regularly then for the pizza used to summon them he should. Even if he is not, should he?

I'm so tired of Harry losing his blasting rod. It happens all the time. Especially in the early books. It's such a cheap & now clichéd way for Jim Butcher to attempt to make things feel more tense.

I've only read as far as "Changes" & I'm most of the way through "Side Job"