I have to admit, I find Charity Carpenter's total disdain for Harry Dresden endlessly entertaining. I enjoy her and Michael and their family, so it's good to see them appear more often. Michael's a fantastic supporting character, but I don't know that I'd enjoy a book with him as a protagonist - he seems a little too unbendingly good, under the circumstances, and while unbendingly good characters can indeed be compelling, his whole philosophy of not killing clear and present threats, despite the evil they will no doubt unleash in the future, because there's a chance that they'll reform is one that I have zero sympathy for. It's admirable in small doses, but in a main character it would drive me up the wall. Never have I felt so sympathetic towards Dresden as I did when he and his baseball bat came to the same irritated conclusion...