![]() ![]() True to the duality rampant within the Dresden-verse, the Summer Court moves in sync with Mab’s request, sending fairy-tale gruffs (half-goat/half-man) to kill Harry. In the Dresden-verse this fairy Queen occupies the Winter Court and usually plays by her own rules and in Small Favor, Mab asks him to do something she thinks will help himself – become her Emissary and find a kidnapped Johnny Marcone. ![]() If you remember from a previous book in the series, Harry Dresden is obligated to perform two more favors in exchange for help from Queen Mab a wholly insane, frigid, and other-worldly beautiful version of what fairy aficionados know as “The Morrighan” in other tales. While it tied up a lot of previous plots, it also opened the door to a host of questions for Thomas, Murphy, Michael and, of course, Dresden. Small Favor was, to me, one of the dominoes of the over-arching plot. ![]() Instead of writing an “epic novel” in one book, you break it up into smaller pieces so that when the end is in sight, the pieces fall together neatly like a stack of dominoes. Sometimes, as an author, you might have it in your head that you’re going to write a very long story. ![]()
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