Book Review: Ghost Story by Jim Butcher

[othercat]

In Ghost Story, everyone’s favorite wizard-detective is assigned the task of finding out who killed him. (This is a very familiar story line, but I cannot think of the movie it reminds me of.) If he does not, three of his friends will meet very painful, very tragic ends. Since Harry does not want this to happen, he goes on the case instead of doing whatever it is dead people do when they die. (We do not get any direct information on which direction if any Harry is going in.)

Months have passed since Harry’s death, and thanks to the power vacuum he created at the end of Changes, there are a lot of new players in town,

Comments

[gehayi]

We do get a hint as to where Harry could end up. We're told that he has a hefty amount of guilt on his soul, and he's warned several times that he's in danger from "southbound trains," which exist in the between-state/alternate dimension/Purgatory in which he finds himself. So I think we're supposed to figure that he's in genuine danger of going to Hell.

[othercat]

I wasn't sure if I was looking at a case of reliable or unreliable narrator, given the mindfuckery Harry was experiencing, hence my general uncertainty.