Book review of Peace Talks by Jim Butcher (opens in new tab)

A short warning before the review: Peace Talks is the first half of a single story that concludes in Battle Ground, and certain late-book events spill across both volumes. I have kept the major plot resolutions and the ending out, but if you want to come to the book entirely cold, bookmark this and come back when you have read it. Peace Talks is the sixteenth novel in The Dresden Files and the book that ended the longest hiatus the series ever had. Skin Game had appeared in May 2014; Peace Ta...