Thoughts, on Winter, and Dames:
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Though having Winter bear the brunt of the Outsider attacks does feel oddly lopsided, it does explain one thing very clearly: why the Unseelie Accords would be called the Unseelie Accords, and why it would be Mab of all people who would call together the various supernatural forces and get them to agree to a peace treaty of sorts. She did it so she and the world could (mostly) focus on the Outsiders.
And, yeah... far too much ogling going on here. I suppose it was to showcase the struggle of controlling the animalistic tendencies of winterfae, but I lost count of all the references to sex. In the first chapter alone we have Sarissa and Mab. Then Maeve naked soon after that, then miscellaneous fae women, then Sarissa again, then Andi naked, and Lily is attractive, and Maeve again, and he wants to take Molly, and also Murphy, there's a joke about nakedness with Lacuna the Hook Knight, more Murphy, and Harry ends up naked at the end just to cap it all off.
Also perhaps a little too much 'Harry summons something, it kicks his ass'.
Besides that, a passable entry to the series. Felt like it was retreading a lot of ground from Summer Knight, but it got some things out of the way so the series can move on.
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