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Dresden Files FYI
Posted on 7/18/25 at 1:39 pm
Posted on 7/18/25 at 1:39 pm
Someone, somewhere on this board was asking about the latest book coming out soon from Jim Butcher. January 2026.
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Posted on 7/18/25 at 2:38 pm to CCT
Hopefully he can get back on track. Butcher turning into Martin/Rothfuss lite and putting out Dresden books every 5-6 years has been extremely disappointing.
Posted on 7/18/25 at 11:28 pm to auyushu
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Hopefully he can get back on track. Butcher turning into Martin/Rothfuss lite and putting out Dresden books every 5-6 years has been extremely disappointing.
He's raised the stakes so high with the last few books, I don't think he thinks that a more normal story would be ok. With how powerful he's gotten, I'm not sure there's much else to expect. It's sad but at least Butcher is making progress.
Posted on 7/20/25 at 9:59 pm to auyushu
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Hopefully he can get back on track. Butcher turning into Martin/Rothfuss lite and putting out Dresden books every 5-6 years has been extremely disappointing.
Yeah it’s a bit frustrating his pacing now. I saw someone post a while back that he went through a nasty divorce. No idea if that’s true, but it would make sense.
Posted on 7/23/25 at 10:05 pm to oauron
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He's raised the stakes so high with the last few books
While I agree it did escalate quickly, be does have a map in mind and it’s not inconsistent with the escalation: 21/22 case files and then an “apocalyptic trilogy” to close out the series.
Probably the most meaningful line in the past 2 books, beating out Justine quoting Nicodemous from very early in the series was “ Looking back, that was the moment everything started to change.”
Really interested to see how it plays out.
This post was edited on 7/25/25 at 9:58 pm
Posted on 7/26/25 at 9:33 pm to oauron
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With how powerful he's gotten, I'm not sure there's much else to expect.
Also, they have been doing a lot of foreshadowing that he’s gonna break a glass ceiling soon and enter an entirely different order of magnitude of power and problems.
-Ethiunu (I’m sure I misspelled that) showing that all of these previous standards of incredible power (Mab, Odin, Eb, Tatiana, Erlking, etc) actually have multiple weight classes above them and they are starting to be more active.
-Outsiders playing a larger hand in openly trying to force the “empty night.” Remember, Harry and crew didn’t win in Battlegrounds. They just obtained the best outcome that was available to them. If Chicago fell, so much the better for the Outsiders, but even with repelling Corbs forces it just lays the foundation of the next stage of the plan.
-Increasing dialogue of the value and import of being a Star born, on BOTH sides of the conflict. Explicit statements that things are close to the “endgame”
-Implications that the Senior Council is fully aware of what is coming and has ideas of the role Harry should (or shouldn’t) play. This is likely why the Merlin is so anti-Harry, especially if he isn’t a member of the Black Council. (As an aside, I really hope he doesn’t turn out to be Cowl)
-Foreshadowing from Mab that Harry is on a path to being given the choice to turn immortal, a situation that Ebenezer is fully aware of and doesn’t want Harry to take.
I don’t think it’s fair to say that he wrote himself into a corner by having the stakes so high. He is clearly laying the foundations of something big. Wouldn’t be surprised if the next book or two is a bit of a step back breather.
This post was edited on 7/26/25 at 9:37 pm
Posted on 1/16/26 at 9:35 am to Volvagia
Only 4 days until the new book. Pretty excited for it!
Posted on 1/17/26 at 8:25 am to oauron
I feel i need to go back and read the series again because its been so long. I will probably wait until he is absolutely finished.
Posted on 1/17/26 at 4:06 pm to MSTiger33
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I feel i need to go back and read the series again because its been so long. I will probably wait until he is absolutely finished
Is this not the final book in the series?
Posted on 1/17/26 at 6:42 pm to Boodis Man
No. The title to book 19 is already known too. It’ll be called Mirror, Mirror.
Posted on 1/17/26 at 6:43 pm to Boodis Man
I thought there was two more. I may be wrong
Posted on 1/17/26 at 10:42 pm to MSTiger33
I thought after these next couple of small ones he was going to write a trilogy to complete it, maybe I’m wrong though
Posted on 1/20/26 at 8:42 am to 225rumpshaker
I wanted to go back thru them, but i don't want to read about Murph again.
Posted on 1/20/26 at 7:55 pm to 225rumpshaker
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thought after these next couple of small ones he was going to write a trilogy to complete it,
It was supposed to be 22 books and then the final trilogy after (so 25 books total). But that was pre Battleground I think. So not sure if Peace talks/Battleground being divided into two books changed that or not. Hopefully he gets his butt in gear and starts releasing them every 2 years again so we aren't worried about him not finishing the series, which wasn't something I think any of us would have been concerned with a decade ago.
Posted on 1/21/26 at 12:52 pm to auyushu
Anyone have a good refresher video/article? Read a lot of books since the last Dresden files…
Posted on 1/25/26 at 4:52 pm to CCT
Just finished it. Not a ton of action, per se. But was nice to be in Harry's world, again.
Posted on 1/26/26 at 10:15 pm to Miner
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Just finished it. Not a ton of action, per se.
Yeah, for the first 2/3s or so it was very slice of life, and I was like "we waited this long for this?". But the last 1/3 redeemed it, it finished extremely well.
It kinda reminded me a bit of a Beware of Chicken of novel, with random slice of life interspersed with random butt kicking. Just Harry dealing with trauma slice of life instead of the humorous slice of life of Beware of Chicken.
It's probably in the bottom 6-7 of the series, but still a solid book.
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