Twelve Months by
Jim Butcher
My rating:
5 of 5 stars
Brilliantly written. Harry is trying to get through his grief over Karrin Murphy's death. Navigate his engagement to Lara and find a way to cure Thomas and save him from the Svartalves Justice. Lara and Harry find common ground in their desire to save Thomas, but it's Harry's (accidental) entrapment of Lara that leads to Thomas' salvation. Because she used Harry to entrap Lara Mab grants Harry a boon and as she predicted Thomas' life was what he asked for. Mab steps in and helps Harry control Thomas' Hunger and gives Thomas the will to live when she threatens Justine and their unborn baby. Alas it's not a completely happy ending. In order to satisfy the Svartalves sense of justice over Thomas murdering Austri he has to turn over his infant son to be reared by them, and Justine can never know that she was pg or gave birth to a son in order to survive the ordeal of her possession. Justine is still in Mab's care when the book ends as Mab is trying to cure her.
More hints that Harry being Starborn is of the utmost importance, it's what allowed him to entrap Lara and we learn that Drakul is also Starborn.
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