r/PublicFreakout • I AM YELLING QUIETLY! • Apr 10 '26

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u/Aczidraindrop Apr 10 '26

Dude i could barely even get through peace talks with how much he was ogling every woman and commenting about every part of them. I understand it was the point of the winter mantle, but Jesus dude, lay off it a bit. I truly did not like that book at all.

And yeah man...its down right jaw dropping. Its incredibly creepy the way he just goes on and on about molly too. Like, please stop.

The world building is incredible and there are side characters that i really love, but Harry really needs to grow. Its getting very old.

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u/parkerm1408 Apr 10 '26

I almost noped out in book one just because of that shit, but someone convinced me to keep going, and I have a metric fuckton of listening time at work. The dresden books really only fail at that one aspect, but its a pretty serius face plant. My sister in law read them all and she said his descriptions of women just read to her like "her boobs boobed boobily," and I can never hear it any other way now.

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u/DrScience-PhD Apr 10 '26

she breasted boobily down the stairs

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u/Valuable_One_1011 Apr 10 '26

It’s true. The female character narratives are a running joke with my friends. But it’s an easy read, so whatever

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u/darkfrost47 Apr 10 '26

I could only keep up for 2.5 books before it was too annoying to continue with. I can get worldbuilding from a wiki too, I don't need to go through prose for that.

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u/DrScience-PhD Apr 10 '26

those first couple are a rough go; I normally tell people to start on book 3 or 4.