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Book #4 in ''[[
In the wake of a personal tragedy and having pissed off every vampire around, Harry neglects everything in the hopes of finding a cure for the love of his life. However, he is pulled out of his blue funk by Queen Mab, who wants him to find who murdered the Summer Knight. Like with most anything involving the Sidhe, things get complicated very quickly as Harry rushes to foil a supernatural plot that could destroy the world.
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* [[Battle Cry]]: Two memorable ones
* [[Beard of Sorrow]]: Harry starts the book on the tail end of a [[Heroic BSOD]] due to losing Susan in
* [[Busman's Holiday
* [[Big Good]]: {{spoiler|The Queen Mothers of Summer and Winter, who generally know what has caused the problems in the book but let Harry work out the problem himself when he meets them.}}
* [[Call Back]]: Harry insists he really had nothing to do with
* [[Chekhov MIA]]: Elaine.
* [[Chekhov's Gun]]: Toot-toot and
* [[Convenient Decoy Cat]]: When Morgan showed up at Harry's apartment after {{spoiler|Elaine}} arrived,
* [[Death of a Thousand Cuts]]: {{spoiler|[[Big Bad|
* [[Disappeared Dad]]:
* [[Einstein Hair]]: No one in particular, but the [[Trope Namer]] is
* [[The End of the World
* [[Face Palm]]: Harry has a particularly memorable one here.
* [[Fate Worse Than Death]]: Happens to the Winter Knight after the events of this book. This has been different from most [[Fate Worse Than Death|fates worse than death]] in that we have received updates on him more than once and, yes, he is still being tortured. The books take place in real time, very roughly speaking, with about a year between publication of each and a [[Time Skip]] of about a year or so between most books. Four books after what happens to the Winter Knight, Harry sees him, still imprisoned. Even Fix, who hates the guy, is disgusted by how much he's suffering.
* [[Food and Animal Attraction]]: When Harry meets [[Magical Native American|Injun Joe]] for the first time, his pet raccoon goes immediately for the half of a chocolate bar in Harry's pocket.
* [[Guardian Entity]]: The Queen Mothers' home was protected by an 18 hand unicorn. {{spoiler|Turns out
* [[The Hecate Sisters]]: The Summer and Winter Queens are each divided into three distinct and separate Fairies: Queen Mother (The Queen Who Was), Queen (The Queen Who Is), and Lady (The Queen Who Is To Come).
* [[Heroic Sacrifice]]: {{spoiler|Meryl. A changeling, half-mortal half-troll, [[Child by Rape|child of rape]] finally embraces her Fae side in order to gain the power to help save her best friend by charging through Aurora's [[Death Trap]] to get to Harry and help him against one of Aurora's strongest allies.}}
* [[It Is Beyond Saving]]: {{spoiler|The Summer Lady plans to use powerful magic to end the battle between Summer and Winter, stopping their eternal cycle of war.}} Unfortunately, that would probably have doomed the whole world.
* [[Leave Your Quest Test]]: After completing the task he's given at the start of the book, {{spoiler|The Gatekeeper}} shows up and asks Harry whether he'll act on the newly uncovered knowledge that {{spoiler|the Summer Lady is attempting to do something which will result in the world's destruction}}, or go home, knowing his job is done. After Harry chooses the former, {{spoiler|The Gatekeeper}} says that if he had answered otherwise, he'd have killed him right then and there.
* [[Meaningful Name]]: Ms. Sommerset, aka, Queen Mab. "Sommer" equates to "Summer", thus making the name "Summer set." Not only a reference to coming after Winter but {{spoiler|also the fact Mid-Summer will come and Summer's reign over the Stone Table will end.}}
* [[Mother Nature, Father Science]]: All the Queens of Faerie are women. The Queen Mothers speak highly of Albert Einstein, referring to him as a sage.
* [[My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels]]: Harry's attempts at speaking Latin do not go well.
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* [[Not a Game]]
* [[Punny Name]]: A very subtle one. Dresden is being guided by a fairy so small, she only appears as a small bright red light that can blink on and off. Her name is Elidee (LED).
* [[Rape
* [[Revenge
* [[Secret Test of Character]]: Many throughout the series, but a notable one was used here.
** Also, the Summer and Winter Mothers give him one.
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* [[Wise Beyond Their Years]]: From the
* [[Yank the Dog's Chain]]: Harry briefly hoped {{spoiler|he might use the [[Anti-Magic|Unraveling]] to cure Susan, but it's stolen from him and used by the [[Big Bad]] before he has a chance to do anything with it.}}
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