I also finished Jim Butcher's CHANGES. It was awesome.
I find this extremely interesting. With how many things Butcher has been working on lately, and how horrible the last two books seemed to have been, do you think there's any chance that Butcher tried a ghost writer on the last two books but decided that it wasn't working after all?
How different are the last two books from this most recent one? Crazy that there could be soooooo much variation within a single series by a single author. I should probably try to read another one of these.
PS--I finished Servant of a Dark God and was pretty underwhelmed by it. There seemed to be a decent story/world-building/characters, but the story-telling was really hard for me to enjoy. Took all the tension and mystery out of it. So, I pretty much lost interest early on, but pushed through to the end because of the good review from EBR. The conversations in it are well done, the action scenes not so much, and the prose was decent. All the sentences that began with conjunctions didn't change though. I mean, I do this to a certain extent in my own writing, but this was
really distracting. Frustrating, more like.