A Mere Sop to His Poleaxed Fans
If you like Karrin Murphy, you should read Side Jobs: in some bizarre way, this Harry Dresden anthology ends up being about her, starting with the first time she encountered the wizard to, well, "Aftermath", or what she did an hour after the end of Changes. Even if you've been completely obsessive about tracking down every anthology to which Jim Butcher contributed and checked his website - not that we know anyone like that - the anthology in which the second to last story, "Love Hurts", was published, wasn't released until after Side Jobs, so it's not just "Aftermath" that'll be new. In each of those anthologies (oops, did I let that cat out of the bag?), the Dresden story was one of the better stories in the bunch, but that's not saying much. Side Jobs is a great service to fans bc individually, most of these stories are not worth tracking down, but taken together, they give a wonderful sense of the people in Harry's life and what's happening when he's not facing major battles. I've long thought a similar set of stories in the Anita Blake-iverse would make a wonderful tv show.
As for "Aftermath", it's probably a spoiler to say that there's not much in the way of spoilers. It's a nice story about some of the characters we like, but it could've been set in a different point in Harry's life with very little re-writing. Shows off Butcher's developing mastery of his craft, but if we want to know what happens next, we're going to have to wait until March 29, when Ghost Story comes out.
As for "Aftermath", it's probably a spoiler to say that there's not much in the way of spoilers. It's a nice story about some of the characters we like, but it could've been set in a different point in Harry's life with very little re-writing. Shows off Butcher's developing mastery of his craft, but if we want to know what happens next, we're going to have to wait until March 29, when Ghost Story comes out.