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Grave Peril by Jim Butcher
5.0
I really, really liked this book. The humor was so on point, I loved Harry’s interactions with Michael. Michael was such a fun character and I’m glad we got a bit of a break from Murphy. The plot was cool and interesting things are being set up. I need to the next one badly.
~Spoilers~
We start Grave Peril with Harry speeding in his craptastic car to go bust some ghosts with a knight named Michael. Now that’s what I call a hook. Also Michael asks about Harry’s love life with Susan.
I know that Butcher is really pushing Susan and Harry, so much that Harry asks Susan to marry him at the end. But I fee like…Murphy and Harry are endgame.
“You’re tense. Grumpy. And you’re isolating yourself more all the time. You need to keep up human contact, Harry. It would be so easy for you to start down a darker path.”—Page 5, Michael the Knight/Wise Sage of Loooooove.
We meet Michael Carpenter who is awesome. The next book is called Summer Knight which makes me hopefully that Michael is there.
“Anything to avoid another Inquisition”, god I love this book.
“My first rampant instincts were to give her a cup of hot chocolate, put a blanket around her shoulders, tell her everything would be all right and strap my talisman onto her wrist.”—Page 31
God, Harry is such a sweetie.
Harry, you’ve finally learned that not trusting people usually gets you and/or them into more trouble.
“‘Holy shit,’ I breathed. ‘Hellhounds.’
‘Harry,’ Michael said sternly. ‘You know I hate it when you swear.’
‘You’re right. Sorry. Holy shit,’ I breathed. ‘heckhounds.’”—Page 43
I love these two. I also really love Michael. He’s always grinning and is such a sweetheart. I just want him to be Harry’s family.
I get the feeling that Harry’s godmother is nothing like Cinderella’s.
And, I already don’t like Michael’s wife. Back off, lady, there’s going to be a bromance. Also I don’t know if Harry’s being serious when he says that Michael saved Charity from a firebreathing dragon. I mean in this series anything is possible.
Oh, great, vampires. Oh, great, Susan wants to go to the vampire ball. That’s not going to be dangerous at all.
“I jerked a thumb at Michael. ‘I did seek God’s help. Heck, is one Knight of the Cross not enough? I could always put out the Bat-signal for the other two.’”—Page 90
I love Harry, he’s significantly more sassy around Michael.
Michael, don’t hate on Bob, he’s the greatest.
“She was getting to where had a pretty good grasp on the local preternatural predators, at least the most common of them, but when things got hairy she still called me in.”—Page 105
Was that a pun?
Did the Joker’s laughing gas get to Micky? Apparently that wire around Agatha was around Micky and boy was that a horrifying scene.
Who is the Winter Queen and what history does she have with Bob?
“All right, all right. It could be something big enough. Something so big that even a fraction of it was enough to attack Malone and lay that spell on him. Maybe a god someone’s dug up. Hecate, Kali, or one of the Old Ones.”—Bob, Page 139
Wait a minute, Hecate, like the Greek goddess? According to Google Kali is a Hindu goddess. Gods exist in this universe. Weird. Also who are the Old Ones? I love and also get incredibly frustrated by Jim Butcher dropping world building hints like this.
“Bob sighed. ‘It blew through a threshold.’
‘So…’ I said, pacing and whirling. ‘Maybe it had some other way to get around the threshold. What if it had an invitation?’
‘How could it have gotten that?’ Bob said. ‘Ding-dong, Soul Eater Home Delivery, may I come in?’
‘Bite me,’”—Page 140
I love these two.
We found Lydia and Kyle the vampire is here for some reason. Shit, Kelly got Harry drugged.
Oh god, Harry had a horrible nightmare and now he’s sobbing. My poor, sweetie.
So apparently Michael, killed a demon with his magic sword and now it’s a ghost trying to get revenge.
Oh shit, the Nightmare ate some of Harry’s magic and now it’s even more powerful. We are so screwed.
“She let out a low groan. ‘The baby,’ she said. ‘Oh, I think…I think my water broke earlier. When I fell.’ Her face twisted, flushing bright red, and she groaned again.
‘Oh,’ I said. ‘Oh. Oh, no. No, this is not happening.’ I put the heel of my hand to my forehead. ‘This is just wrong.’ I shot an accusing glance skywards. ‘Someone up there has a sick sense of humor.’”—Page 208
Charity’s only purpose in this story is to scowl at Harry and be a pregnant woman cliché. Water breaking at an inconvenient time cliché *ding*.
Oh god, Harry lost Michael’s sword. Ugh, this is awful. Charity might not be able to have any more babies and his newborn might die. Jesus Christ, Butcher leave poor Michael alone.
I think that Susan has some really important information and you should call her back immediately.
“‘I still can’t believe,’ Michael said, sotto voce, ‘that you came to the Vampires’ Masquerade Ball dressed as a vampire.’
‘Not just a vampire,’ I said, ‘a cheesy vampire. Do you think they got the point?’”—Page 251
Oh god, Harry you dork. How on earth have you not gotten yourself killed? The fact that you presumably live through like seventeen of these books never ceases to amaze me.
“She wore a gown of flickering flame. I don’t mean that she wore a red dress—she wore flame, gathered about her in the shape of an evening gown, blue at its based fading through the color of a candle to red as it cupped her full, gorgeous breasts. More flame danced and played through the elegant piled of her dark hair, flicking over her like a tiara.”—Page 254
Bianca was the girl on fire before it was cool.
Oh great, Harry has been poisoned. Also, I don’t know how to feel about Thomas. I kind of want to trust him but I think trusting him will be a bad idea.
A dragon? On a scale (haha see what I did there?) of 1-10 of things not to do, pissing off an all powerful dragon is about over 9,000.
Susan, you’ve got to be fucking kidding me. I can’t believe you came. How could you be so stupid? Oh and of course by crashing the party, anyone can eat you. Goddammit Susan you’re so stupid! Wait a minute, Susan. You’re not seriously considering making a deal with Harry’s Godmother. And now Susan doesn’t remember Harry.
Harry dressed up as a cheesy vampire and Bianca raised him a tombstone with his name on it. Damn.
This is probably going to bite me in the butt but I trust Thomas. I know that he betrayed us but he gave Michael back his sword.
Oh god, Susan turned into a vampire. Like this is the worst book for Susan. So Harry saves the day alongside his ghost. Although now the White Council and the Vampires are at war so that’s not good. And the White Council is coming to Chicago. That’ll be exciting.
I can’t believe that Michael and Charity named their baby “Harry” like I totally saw it coming but c’mon. Also, I’m super sad that Susan rejected Harry, mostly because I want Harry to be happy.
Jim Butcher should create a series called “The Fabulous Misadventures of Michael the Knight and Thomas the Sex Vampire” because I would read the hell out of that series.
I think that’s a good place to leave off on. Now time to wait for Summer Knight to get here.
~Spoilers~
We start Grave Peril with Harry speeding in his craptastic car to go bust some ghosts with a knight named Michael. Now that’s what I call a hook. Also Michael asks about Harry’s love life with Susan.
I know that Butcher is really pushing Susan and Harry, so much that Harry asks Susan to marry him at the end. But I fee like…Murphy and Harry are endgame.
“You’re tense. Grumpy. And you’re isolating yourself more all the time. You need to keep up human contact, Harry. It would be so easy for you to start down a darker path.”—Page 5, Michael the Knight/Wise Sage of Loooooove.
We meet Michael Carpenter who is awesome. The next book is called Summer Knight which makes me hopefully that Michael is there.
“Anything to avoid another Inquisition”, god I love this book.
“My first rampant instincts were to give her a cup of hot chocolate, put a blanket around her shoulders, tell her everything would be all right and strap my talisman onto her wrist.”—Page 31
God, Harry is such a sweetie.
Harry, you’ve finally learned that not trusting people usually gets you and/or them into more trouble.
“‘Holy shit,’ I breathed. ‘Hellhounds.’
‘Harry,’ Michael said sternly. ‘You know I hate it when you swear.’
‘You’re right. Sorry. Holy shit,’ I breathed. ‘heckhounds.’”—Page 43
I love these two. I also really love Michael. He’s always grinning and is such a sweetheart. I just want him to be Harry’s family.
I get the feeling that Harry’s godmother is nothing like Cinderella’s.
And, I already don’t like Michael’s wife. Back off, lady, there’s going to be a bromance. Also I don’t know if Harry’s being serious when he says that Michael saved Charity from a firebreathing dragon. I mean in this series anything is possible.
Oh, great, vampires. Oh, great, Susan wants to go to the vampire ball. That’s not going to be dangerous at all.
“I jerked a thumb at Michael. ‘I did seek God’s help. Heck, is one Knight of the Cross not enough? I could always put out the Bat-signal for the other two.’”—Page 90
I love Harry, he’s significantly more sassy around Michael.
Michael, don’t hate on Bob, he’s the greatest.
“She was getting to where had a pretty good grasp on the local preternatural predators, at least the most common of them, but when things got hairy she still called me in.”—Page 105
Was that a pun?
Did the Joker’s laughing gas get to Micky? Apparently that wire around Agatha was around Micky and boy was that a horrifying scene.
Who is the Winter Queen and what history does she have with Bob?
“All right, all right. It could be something big enough. Something so big that even a fraction of it was enough to attack Malone and lay that spell on him. Maybe a god someone’s dug up. Hecate, Kali, or one of the Old Ones.”—Bob, Page 139
Wait a minute, Hecate, like the Greek goddess? According to Google Kali is a Hindu goddess. Gods exist in this universe. Weird. Also who are the Old Ones? I love and also get incredibly frustrated by Jim Butcher dropping world building hints like this.
“Bob sighed. ‘It blew through a threshold.’
‘So…’ I said, pacing and whirling. ‘Maybe it had some other way to get around the threshold. What if it had an invitation?’
‘How could it have gotten that?’ Bob said. ‘Ding-dong, Soul Eater Home Delivery, may I come in?’
‘Bite me,’”—Page 140
I love these two.
We found Lydia and Kyle the vampire is here for some reason. Shit, Kelly got Harry drugged.
Oh god, Harry had a horrible nightmare and now he’s sobbing. My poor, sweetie.
So apparently Michael, killed a demon with his magic sword and now it’s a ghost trying to get revenge.
Oh shit, the Nightmare ate some of Harry’s magic and now it’s even more powerful. We are so screwed.
“She let out a low groan. ‘The baby,’ she said. ‘Oh, I think…I think my water broke earlier. When I fell.’ Her face twisted, flushing bright red, and she groaned again.
‘Oh,’ I said. ‘Oh. Oh, no. No, this is not happening.’ I put the heel of my hand to my forehead. ‘This is just wrong.’ I shot an accusing glance skywards. ‘Someone up there has a sick sense of humor.’”—Page 208
Charity’s only purpose in this story is to scowl at Harry and be a pregnant woman cliché. Water breaking at an inconvenient time cliché *ding*.
Oh god, Harry lost Michael’s sword. Ugh, this is awful. Charity might not be able to have any more babies and his newborn might die. Jesus Christ, Butcher leave poor Michael alone.
I think that Susan has some really important information and you should call her back immediately.
“‘I still can’t believe,’ Michael said, sotto voce, ‘that you came to the Vampires’ Masquerade Ball dressed as a vampire.’
‘Not just a vampire,’ I said, ‘a cheesy vampire. Do you think they got the point?’”—Page 251
Oh god, Harry you dork. How on earth have you not gotten yourself killed? The fact that you presumably live through like seventeen of these books never ceases to amaze me.
“She wore a gown of flickering flame. I don’t mean that she wore a red dress—she wore flame, gathered about her in the shape of an evening gown, blue at its based fading through the color of a candle to red as it cupped her full, gorgeous breasts. More flame danced and played through the elegant piled of her dark hair, flicking over her like a tiara.”—Page 254
Bianca was the girl on fire before it was cool.
Oh great, Harry has been poisoned. Also, I don’t know how to feel about Thomas. I kind of want to trust him but I think trusting him will be a bad idea.
A dragon? On a scale (haha see what I did there?) of 1-10 of things not to do, pissing off an all powerful dragon is about over 9,000.
Susan, you’ve got to be fucking kidding me. I can’t believe you came. How could you be so stupid? Oh and of course by crashing the party, anyone can eat you. Goddammit Susan you’re so stupid! Wait a minute, Susan. You’re not seriously considering making a deal with Harry’s Godmother. And now Susan doesn’t remember Harry.
Harry dressed up as a cheesy vampire and Bianca raised him a tombstone with his name on it. Damn.
This is probably going to bite me in the butt but I trust Thomas. I know that he betrayed us but he gave Michael back his sword.
Oh god, Susan turned into a vampire. Like this is the worst book for Susan. So Harry saves the day alongside his ghost. Although now the White Council and the Vampires are at war so that’s not good. And the White Council is coming to Chicago. That’ll be exciting.
I can’t believe that Michael and Charity named their baby “Harry” like I totally saw it coming but c’mon. Also, I’m super sad that Susan rejected Harry, mostly because I want Harry to be happy.
Jim Butcher should create a series called “The Fabulous Misadventures of Michael the Knight and Thomas the Sex Vampire” because I would read the hell out of that series.
I think that’s a good place to leave off on. Now time to wait for Summer Knight to get here.