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Finished up Battleground. Since the title of the thread says spoilers, I'll assume that also applies for Battleground.

All in all, I thought that Battleground was a very good book, like a lot of basically two part books, the first was the set up and the second was the payoff. Fairly obviously, this sets up the series to go off in a somewhat different direction. From that standpoint there a similarities between this one and Changes.

I'll put spoiler around the next part

Spoiler:

Obviously killing off Murphy, the engagement to Laura, the fact that Justine was taken over by a watcher and the upcoming battle between Dresden and the White Council are the big changes that point to the new direction of the story arc. The revelation about Marcone is another big change.

One piece of speculation I would make is that there will be a break in the White Council and a group of wizards will join Dresden in his new abode, otherwise, why would he need the Castle? We will see.