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I called Elaine Harry's late wife in this review. For the life of me, I don't know why I was remembering that they were married, but I'm a fool and that's not right.
Carry on.
I replayed it twice the first time you said it trying to understand what you were saying, gave up and continued with the video. Thanks for the clarification😂 Merry Christmas
OOOOH Elaine. I was so confused when you said wife. That at least tracks
Thank you! I was kinda yelling at you while I was watching. Wonderful review. Just read White Night, can’t wait for your review of that one.
Merphy, I loved your analysis of Harry's view of Murphy. You're coming up on a point where you'll need to start reading the short stories, probably after "White Night". The two short story collections are "Side Jobs" and "Brief Cases". Also what did you think about Harry, Lucio, and Corpse Taker?
Yeah Merphy Napier I’m not a big fan of you judging Harry’s own Internal Thoughts and then just letting Karrin’s Conduct in that opening scene go with a simple “well it sounded like he wanted to tell her not to go.” Yeah NO! I am not a Karrin Murphy fan (which I will explain more as you go further into the Series) but Karrin is absolutely and needlessly Cruel here. Giving her all the credit she is due as she isn’t just a really solid Administrator and all around good Cop she is also a Top Shelf Detective. It’s also been a full year since Blood Rites where you admitted (rightly so) that Harry’s feelings have changed when it comes to Karrin. Now there is absolutely no way that Harry “Heart on his Sleeve” Dresden didn’t give away those feelings at some point to her in that year, looking from a Watsonian POV. Now knowing these things we can safely assume Karrin knew of Harry’s feelings towards her and how they have changed. Her going to him right before she goes off on a romantic vacation with another Man (which due to Harry’s Shock at the news can also be inferred that Karrin never told him she was Dating Kincaid which is another Piece of Evidence to her Cruelty here) with the excuse to ask him to “water her plants”?! Are you kidding me? We just met her Family in the last Book! Even if she is still having issues with her Mother and Sister there are her many Murphy Brothers, Cousins, or her Co-Workers at SI she could ask to do something so relatively small. As a Man if a Woman I both Respected and Had Feelings for treated me the way she did by both acknowledging my feelings and rubbing in that she doesn’t share them in the same interaction (and she doesn’t feel the same way about him otherwise she never would have taken up with Kincaid to start with) it would effect me just as much if not more than it effects Harry here. Then he has to spend the entire Book blackmailed into putting everything on the line for the Woman who just did that to him!!! Harry Dresden is a Damn Saint and I will brook no argument in this…
Other than my issues with Murphy in general but the Opening Scene in specific there is a reason Dead Beat is my 2nd Favorite Book in this whole Series after Changes. It really is that good. Yeah I never saw the Shiela twist either lol. POLKA WILL NEVER DIE!
"...No. And do you know why?" He shook his head. "Because Thomas is too pretty to die. And because I'm too stubborn to die." I hauled on the shirt even harder. "And most of all because tomorrow is Oktoberfest, Butters, and polka will never die.”
My favorite part of this book, 11/10.
*P O L K A*
*W I L L*
*N E V E R*
*D I E*
please keep these spoiler talks coming for all the dresden book. I love that you take your time to discuss 1 book so extensively
One of my favorite parts of this book is the reveal of how powerful Harry has become, and how nervous that makes his friends sometimes. The book is told in first person, so we only real see Harry as he sees himself - a bumbling, middle aged man just trying to get his bills paid and maybe do some good along the way. But everyone else? They see a 6 and a half foot tall demi-god duking it out with vampires, werewolves, faeries, and literal demons whilst chucking around fire and lightning like they're his personal toys. It doesn't happen often, but seeing that crazy contrast is one of the more memorable parts of the books.
There's a short story from Murphy's perspective that I love and describes Harry from her perspective.
@@evanflynn4680 Last short from the Side Jobs anthology if I remember correctly. Hopeful Murph picks them up after she finishes the series.
Butcher does an excellent job taking Dresden from a low-level character in a simpler, black-and-white world to a high-level character in a complex, shades-of-gray world.
Yeah, it really is hard to top riding a zombie T-Rex through Chicago in a storm, on Halloween, to battle a trio of necromancers and their armies of ghosts and zombie to stop them from creating a Dark God. But Butcher keeps doing more and more insanely awesome things. Yeah, this is pretty much where the series has fully found it's footing, and from here till Changes it is a non-stop race of epicness.
And then the crying starts.
I think this is the first novel where Harry loses literally every confrontation he's in right up until the end. Every fight ends with Harry not just losing, but being so completely outclassed that he either has to run away, get rescued by his allies, or both. We've seen Harry in over his head before, but Dead Beat really sells us on the peril being way past the usual level. Corpsetaker getting inside of Harry's head outside the bookstore was an especially creepy section because of how it's described in first-person, with Ms. Gard flat out telling him later that he was "meant" to die in that alley. When he's being tortured by Cassius, we know from Harry's own narrative that he's literally given up and thinks he's about to die. Harry being unable to use fire even while surrounded by zombies and he really needs it... and then he steps outside and realizes there were too many of them, and he couldn't have won regardless.
Finally, as a Chicagoan, we are damned proud of Sue, but the best part of that scene was Butters wearing the polka suit in a plot-relevant way... and then, off-camera, apparently handing it over to Morgan while Butters helps the Wardens. I'm just picturing Morgan in the polka suit, and it's beautiful.
I found the whole concept of needing a drummer to be a cool take on zombies in general.
All in favor of Merphy and Daniel having a DF quiz like they the One Piece quiz when she catches up?
I love the Sheila twist, but it also makes me sad because I wanted Sheila to be real so bad.
I know. She was so perfect for Dresden. But that was what Lashiel was going for. A women just vulnerable enough for his protective instincts to come to the forefront, but strong enough to be of assistance and for him to admire her strength.
Fallen angel catfishing is not usually on anyone's checklist.
Now I have a mental image of a Denarian private discord server in my head, and I can't get it out. Thank you.
To be fair, Harry does not run into the fire that often. He usually just runs into a place and then it gets set on fire.
" the building was on fire and it wasn't my fault" still one of the greatest opening line of a book
POLKA WILL NEVER DIE is one of the finest moments in the series. And Marsters's take on that scene in the audiobook had me chocking on my beverage even though I knew it was coming :D
Lasciel is unironically my second favourite character after Michael.
She's such a fascinating twist on the "evil demon in your head".
Michael is probably my favorite character as well but I don't know that I could pick a solid second place. There's so many great characters in these books that it's hard. Possibly Marcone as my second favorite. Or Bob. Or Butters. Or Molly. Ask me in an hour and I'll probably have different answers.
I know it’s splitting hairs but since Merphy mentioned it too; the denarians are not demons. Fallen angels are a whole magnitude of danger worse.
@@peterepeatepete2845 True
Disagree. I do love Lash, though. 😉
@26:33 The Erlking is definitely one of those figures you can accidentally lose a weekend to. If you want to, start with Goethe's ballad and work chronologically backwards until people start arguing about Carl Jung
Even if you find Shiela suspicious, this book is all about an unknown number of necromancers being in town. A perfect red herring. I immediately thought Harry's first instinct with her was correct, when he pulled a gun and his shield out. But I also assumed she was a kemmlerite or working with one. Then she turned out to be something way less predictable, and way scarrier. It's one of the best twists ever.
Also it's funny you called Elaine his ex-wife. It's more like high/wizard school sweet hearts. That all blew up when they were just 16.
why was I remembering her as his wife?! 😂 idk why I thought they were married
@@merphynapierreviews He purposed to Susan at the end of book 3, and he keeps the ring on his mantle next to picture of her. Elaine notices it in Summer Knight, so maybe that's where you got that impression?
I’m pretty sure you don’t get much more than she was Harry’s first Love, so it wouldn’t be crazy to think they were married.
Lol yeah I was confused, like, did I completely miss the fact that they were married 😅
The t-rex race around Chicago always brings a grin to my face while reading it. So much fun.
Probably my favorite Dresden book. Doing a re-listen to the audiobooks and they're just so therapeutic at times.
The audiobooks are so great. The first few are a little rough since Marsters wasn't used to narration but once he finds his stride, oh boy, is he a goddamned fantastic narrator. When I first started listening to the books, I was like "Oh, this is fun, Spike from Buffy The Vampire Slayer is narrating this!" Now, when I see episodes of Buffy, I think "Hey, that's cool, Harry Dresden is playing Spike!" To me Dresden is Marsters' defining role now.
The Lashiel twist just blew me away. I love it when I don't see a twist coming and I sure didn't see this one. The reveal was so well done too. I'm all up to date on the Dresden files now, but that scene is still one of the most memorable of the series for me.
I love the Shiela twist and Sue! Oh wonderful Sue! And the look on the wardens faces when they saw Sue! 😂 Also I can’t believe you didn’t mention Morgan’s animosity and the fact that in that moment after shooting Lucio, Harry was genuinely ready to let Morgan kill him. That’s one of my favourite parts in that book.
Anyway I’m doing my third reread of the series right now and am on book 15. 😁 couldn’t help but get ahead of you. 😅
I know you would not get to it yet, and actually it may be hard to find. There is a novelette, set between Small Favor (Dresden Files #10) and Turn Coat (Dresden Files #11) that is written from the perspective of Thomas. It is interesting for a few reasons, but among them, we get to see how Thomas views Dresden. If you really want that perspective I strongly Recommend it.
I think you mean Backup, and it's included in the short story collection Side Jobs. That's probably the first of many short stories that are pretty much required reading to get the whole series.
@@Danne1886 there was a novelette released probably 12-15 years ago. I have the hard bound book, which was probably limited release. You are correct about Backup, I thought I had included the name, but on review of the post I guess I lost it when I was trying to place it in the Dresden Files chronology. Thanks for the catch.
Polka Never Dies!!!
So excited to see your reactions to upcoming books in series and so many different plot points
I read Dresden in 2023 & am up to date, loving the series!!! Can not believe it has taken me so long to pick up the series
I did the same thing started and finished it all this year, and it instantly became a favorite series and I can't wait for more books
"Life is a journey. Time is a river. The door is ajar."
loved harry's talk with his dad in the dream, about the death curse, and dying alone, and his dad's response, about how everyone dies alone, that death is a door one person wide that we all have to go through alone. Also polka will never die! might be my favorite dresden book.
The running scene is brilliant because it has nothing to do with plot but EVERYTHING to do with story. In a novel where Harry rides an undead T-Rex into a maelstrom necromances, having moments like this, and even how Harry builds up Butters when Thomas wants to dump him are brilliant.
This is where i started binge reading the series in huge chunks. Read Dead Beat through Turn Coat (book 11) in about 2 weeks.
Dead Beat is a good contender for the best of the early part of the series. And I think the Sheila reveal is a real highlight of the book for me. Just an absolutely executed twist.
I'll be interested in seeing if you can keep to one book a month. Whenever I reread this series they get binged like crazy. The first several books I can do at a reasonable pace, but after awhile it just builds up momentum and it is straight from one book to the next.
That's exactly what happened to me when I first read the series 😅
If I recall the story properly, this book had another milestone for the series. It was the first Dresden Files book that was given the hardcover treatment.
Correct! This reason is also why Butters had such a major part in the story, Jim used him as a way to explain aspects of the world to new readers.
I probably would have given in to Lasciel. lol
I liked this a lot more than the non-spoiler reviews, helps me remember which book is which. It's hard when the other talk is so vague.
Another banger of a book. Again this is my favorite series and it brings me so much joy to watch your reviews of it and enjoy it as well. POLKA NEVER DIES
Dead Beat was a real step up in the series for me. And the next few are fantastic as well. I think you'll really enjoy Proven Guilty, but its a steady build up in the next 4 books to possibly my favourite in the series so far, Changes ( I haven't read the last 2 yet, though they're on my to read pile). It is really impressive how the story keeps scaling up without seeming too forced. Looking forward to your future reviews.
The last two (Peace Talks and Battle Ground) are really just one long book split in two. Peace Talks is all build up (like you get in the first half of most Dresden books) and Battle Ground is one long balls-to-the-wall crazy ending of a Dresden book. It's actually exhausting.
It's so funny that you called this the peak. Just keep reading. There's some pretty awesome moments in later books. I hope you do a tier ranking of all the books when you get caught up.
Whenever you said "Poor Harry" it just reminded me of SF Debris and whenever he does his Star Trek Voyager reviews and when something happens to Harry Kim he goes "Poor Dumb Harry" and It honest would fit the Dresden Files so well
Butters has some of the most emotional moments in the entire series. That even on multiple rereads gets me.
Kindaa said it in the spoiler-free vid, but Dresden on the back of Sue is what I picture whenever I think of this series. It's just so awesome, and so well-earned of a set piece.
Plus, there are amazing artworks of the scene, so you can actually see it, instead of just imagining it.
Also, I don't know what the feeling is among most Dresden fans about Proven Guilty (the next book), but it is one of my absolute favorites. I cannot wait to hear your thoughts on that one!
I love just about every book from Dead Beat onwards. There's things to love in the earlier books, but from here on, JB just keeps hitting things out of the park.
I can't wait till you get further along. These books make me so emotional, like nothing else.
Please keep the spoiler reviews coming! I adore the dresden files and love hearing you talk about it, whether it be criticisms or praise!
Im so happy you enjoy these books. They are one of my favorites.
Five books until you get to Changes...
Damn I love witnessing this again through someone’s new eyes. Butchers series is probably my most reread on my shelves. Yes there’s flaws but damn the world build and heart in the franchise keeps me coming back.
Not spoiling things, but... some of the things you speculate on make me so happy, but also so nervous at the same time.
OOMPA! OOMPA! OOMPA!!
Polka will never die!!!!!!
So glad you did this Murphy. Most enjoyable video I’ve ever watched from you, absolutely loved it. Dead Beat is one of the best, and the ending is so good that I got Harry riding Sue tattooed all across my upper arm!!
Can’t wait for your spoiler discussion of the next Dresden.
This is one of my favorites of this series. Butters really steps up from this point on and I’m 100% here for it. Also Mouse is an awesome character in this one.
The Sheila twist caught me as well. I actually clinched in pain because it had that waking from a dream feel... which was also foreshadowed by his dream scene with his dad.
It's pronounced "Earl-King" (at least that's how it's pronounced on the audio books.
I'm so glad you did a spoiler review!
We Dresden-philes love discussing these books.
I love how you say "how can they beat that!" Keep going! This is one of my favorite books in the series. But it's like my number 4 or so. There's a lot to look forward to.
But the Dino-zombie is probably the single funnest/funniest scenes in the series
Butters' character arc in this series is one of my favorites.
Thank you for this, Merphy! One of the main reasons I sub to your channel is how you think through these stories and share your thoughts. I had waited for years for you to get to the Dresden Files and can't tell you how excited I am for you to read through the rest of this series, because all the best books are still ahead. Part of that excitement is to hear more details that can only come through a spoiler discussion.
I am so much enjoying your first experience with these books and your reviews. Please continue you're doing great.
Zombie Tyrannosaurus Rex. Yeah, that's a tough one to top.
Anyone who says that riding a zombie T-Rex into battle with a Polka Musician sidekick is to strange for them isn’t someone I want to be friends with.
LOVING your Dresden reviews... even though I've read the series, your excitement makes me want to start over. Enjoy!
It has been years since I picked up a Dresden book. This review, of my favorite book of the series, has rekindle my interest in catching up with the three books that I haven’t read yet. (Of course I’ve been collecting the books!)
Back in the 1990’s PBS did a show on the man who found and excavated Sue. I don’t remember the details, but somehow the government took Sue away from her first human home. That show, and Sue, stuck with me ever since. Then, Butcher did an interview where he discussed seeing the PBS special and how he added her into this series. That was a sweet bit of trivia. I feel like this story was written especially for me, and everyone else who couldn’t forget Sue’s story.
I love Butters too. POLKA WILL NEVER DIE!
This makes me so happy to hear you enjoy the progression of the Dresden books. I just want you to bring them and get to Changes already haha.
Don’t forget to check the two short story collections from Dresden. One is called side jobs and I don’t remember what the other one is called.
Brief Cases is the other one. I second this recommendation, but you have to do some research to know exactly when to reach each short story because they fall in between certain books.
I suggested she read Side Jobs after Changes. That way she doesn't risk reading stuff that's past the book she's up to.
Something I really love in The Dresden Files is how it plays with the idea of "humanity" and "monsters"
really late to your reviews but loving them. I think one thing people tend to underplay in this book is Harry"s conversation with Lucio to become a warden. Before this Harry always understood he was hated by the council as a whole but in that line of, "They're not Harry Dresden." he gets a true look at the fear many hold and even some of the admiration some other hold for him. One of my single favorite lines from this book.
If Harry's descriptions bother you, try Butcher's other books - you'll quickly see that it's Harry's descriptions, not Jim Butcher's.
With the way you talk about how Jim Butcher writes the attraction of characters and descriptions; I'm super interested in when you get to a certain point in the next book. Rubbed me the wrong way, even if it "doesn't go there".
WOW! I can't express how happy I am that you are reading the Dresden files. I think you will eventually love these kinda like you did with One Piece where you missed a lot at the beginning and had to go back. Jim does an amazing job, like Oda, with foreshadowing and just telling a compelling story. This book is THE book that sets the series off. I can't wait to watch what you have in store for you, they only get better from here!!!!
I'm kicking myself for not realising sooner that you're reading Dresden Files. So I'm a bit late to the party here. But there are two things I want you to know about this book. One is Polka Will Never Die: PWND.
The second is that I have watched quite a few recordings of Butcher at Cons. And he likes to tell stories. One of them is about this book. It was his first hardcover. Which means it had to serve as a possible first book for people.
And that is why Butters is the companion this book. He is new to the supernatural scene, so he can be the newbie that needs everything explained. And he is thematically apt, being a coroner and all. And as a huge bonus, he is of no help whatsoever in a sticky situation (Butcher's own words, or close to it).
Looking forward to you getting caught up, gets so much better.
I've read the whole series, and this is my personal favorite. It doesn't even have my two favorite characters in it, but it has a lot of my favorite scenes. The explanation of the vampire hunger, the scene where Dresden is riding Sue, and so many others are so amazing.
When I went to Chicago last year (from Europe), I specifically put multiple locations from the Dresden books on my list of things to see. Sue was on the top of the list! And Millennium Park, after reading Battleground.
“When he gets his death scene”
Wait until you get to Changes
dont overhype it too much... there are plenty of great books before that... :)
More Dresden Spoiler talks pleaaase
Book 7 is my second favorite of the series, and I cannot wait for Murphy to get to book 12, which is my favorite Dresden book, especially after this review.
Yasssssssssssssssssssss I was so happy to relive the book through this spoiler chat, it’s definitely a standout favorite from the first 10 for me. The Lash reveal was incredible, and the final Sue action scene is just one of the coolest ever.
I really appreciated how Dresden was so steadfast in encouraging and caring for Butters throughout the book, it was very touching that Harry just didn’t leave him behind or dismiss him like Thomas did. And then with a little push, Butters did do things he never thought himself capable of 💪
Sue being mentioned a bunch was extra innocuous for me since I already knew of her as the Field Museum's big Tyrannosaurus from my childhood dinosaur phase 😅
And the Dresden is just, "oh hey, a loophole!"
Dead Beat is definitely in my top 5 books in this series. The next one, Proven Guilty, is also excellent, also in my top 5, I hope you'll like it enough as well to do a full length review on it similar to this one!
Also I love your stego bag. A lot of people grow out of their dinosaur phase but I think those people are boring, I'm 40 now and dinosaurs still kick ass!
Also Sue doesn't corner well!!!!! 🤣🤣🤣
Re-experiencing the books through your blogs has been great! Dead beat is for sure one of my favorites of the series. Butters is fantastic. I love how Butcher kind of slowly teaches us how necromancy works across the book, like needing the beat, and the age of the bodies, and the power of the zombies, so that it all culminates in the Sue scene and not only is it totally badass, but it's completely earned and feels like, "Why didnt I think of that, of course thats the perfect solution!"
A Dresden Files playlist would be clutch. I want to watch these videos in order but I searched her name and Dresden Files and very little is coming up. I feel like I'm missing the video for books 3-6
Hell yes! More Dresden CZcams content! Liked and subscribed. Here from Reddit
This was my favorite book review of the year! A book I loved with a great personality reviewing it. So animated, so passionate. Its fun to see someone else nerd out over books! Thanks for this one, Merph!
Keep these reviews coming Merphy! I said it in the non-spoiler review, but this is the Water 7 of The Dresden Files where you begin to see the scale the author is working with and the story just grabs you.
In regards to how many crazy things Butcher packed into this book, his editor implied that if he did well, Dead Beat may be the first Dresden book to be published in hardcover. So Jim went HARD.
This is the best one. I love the rest of the series ofc but still Dead beat is my favourite. Because of that insane final battle...Just pure chaos and fun!
Wow a video thanks Merphy!!! And cat free as well...
Thank you so much for this spoiler review! I was really missing your spoiler spotlights for the books in the series you have really liked, and I super look forward to the next few videos on Dresden!
26:00. "It can't get better here". Laughs in book 12 & 15
Delightful review!
I always love hearing what people think when they read this series for the first time.
This book was when Butcher finally hit a home run. The books were consistently fun before this but this one is special. I’m really glad you enjoyed it so much.
I like westerns and Harry trading punches with Cowl outside the bookstore was a very western moment. The adversaries Harry faces in the book were really well done. Corpse taker was grade A creepy and Lash’s demonstration of her capability to manipulate was off the chain. Definitely a good book in a good series.
When you get to changes, you must absolutely film yourself reading the first chapter out loud. Let everyone see your reaction. Also read the ending too. There has never been a more appropriate title for a book.
Harry's dad appearing is 100% legit. He says "the scales are being balanced", by that he means that now that Lasciel is acting (Hell), he can appear to help Harry (Heaven).
You only "get" that once you finish the novel. Or, if you're like me, on your third reread.
Any predictions or speculations I make in the videos, you can leave me to figure out as the series goes on. When I guess at what's going on, I'm not looking for answers, just giving you the chance to laugh at me as the one who's read more and holds all the answers already :)
The Dresden brothers' love lives are just tragic lmao
"Everybody dies alone." - Mal Reynolds.
I've always thought that death curse was lame-o. But I'm betting that Butcher has a twist on the curse waiting for us.
I think it’s more the effect is has on Harry with it hanging over his head. He has no idea what that actually means and to someone like him it’s a pretty terrible fate.
@@peterepeatepete2845 I think that's Butcher's rationale for why the curse. But I don't think the dying Cassius had enough background on Harry to have come up with that curse. And if he's of a mind to go that direction, 'be unloved forever' would seem to have more immediate and long-term effects. Of course, who knows what's the limits are on a death curse.
@25:05 In my head I see Bianca arguing that the Jurrasic is so far back that Sue is more of a golem than a zombie just so her gravestone prophecy has no chance to fail
T Rex is from the Cretaceous.
Minor thing, one thing I really loved about this book was the visual of abandoned Chicago streets and a thumping bass in the distance. Ominous
Because you picked up the series, I did a listen through of the series from September through mid-November. My 3rd time through. As others have said, I’m thrilled that you’re reading Dresden Files. I look forward to seeing all of your reactions and thoughts.
I'm just here for the journey, for your conjectures and suppositions.
ahahahahahahahahaha 'harry got to ride, a zombie dinosaur, to kill more zombies - thats it, end the story now, we've hit the peak' says everyone who's read Dresden here.... "oh shit i was wrong it gets better' is also everyone who's read, Dresden :-) Good to see ya enjoying it Merph :-) Just wait for Changes.
Really enjoyed this one!
Mouse is the true hero of the Dresden Files. Just as Little Mouse is the true hero of Cinder Spires. Hmmm.......
They are the real Jim Butcher self-insert characters
Spoiler for this book, but you watched this vid so you know that
I think it was his dad, it was implied that because lash overstepped by making him see shiela, the ‘other side’ could balance the scale.
We've hit the pick we're done now ...... Eeeeh, wait until you get to Changes.
I looked at your page, you need to cover Jim Butcher's Codex Alera Series. 6 books and complete, but there is room left if he ever wants to re-visit it
This was my favorite book out of the series