I'd heard about the series being that long, but that makes what he did with Changes even weirder. Uh, dude, no one really believes that you've put your main protagonist in any danger of being killed off permanently.

I personally mark Book 7, or maybe 6, as the point where Butcher, or at least my perception of Butcher, started taking things too seriously. I like the plot of book 7, but not the brooding that occurred in that book or the books that followed, especially his apparently permanent non-starter romantic relationship with Murphy that needs to be explained again and again and again.

Yeah, I think Butcher is heading for a romance between Harry and Molly, and once again, I see no point to it. As you say, the plotline was apparently resolved; Harry seems to have the exact same type of sexual attraction to her that he does to just about every other woman he meets, nothing deeper; and there's been nothing in the plots to make me think that a romance between them is necessary, inevitable, or foreshadowed.

A Local Habitation is the book I was talking about in point 1. Srsly, avoid it.

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