It was okay, I guess.

I was listening to the audiobook and when I got halfway through the book, I was like, “wait, I’m halfway through already? Has anything interesting even happened?”

I agree that Dresden choosing to not communicate a certain critical piece of information was just idiotic and a blatant attempt at building tension. It’s not the kind of secret that can or should be kept. And then, when at the end of the book Dresden thinks, “yeah, I really need to say it.” I can’t help but think, nothing’s really changed about the situation; if you could tell him now, you could’ve told him earlier.

The one interesting thing about this book - that made this slightly better than Ghost Story - is that it built an interesting cliffhanger (with Ghost Story you can skip the whole book and you wouldn’t have missed anything).
If anything, Peace Talk felt like the first half of a book.

I was originally wondering why Audible was telling me the next book is coming out in October. Now I feel like they just split the one story into two books.

Maybe to recoup some of the money of having no proper Dresden books out for the past 6-7 years? That’s the cynical part of me talking.

Anyway, this is a book you need to read if you want to follow the Dresden series, but I wouldn’t hold too high of an expectation.