YMMV / Turn Coat

• Complete Monster:
  • "Shagnasty" is a Skin Walker or Naagloshii sent by the Black Council to disrupt the investigation into the titular traitor, and delights in causing pain in his victims, torturing them with sadistic glee. Attacking the Raith mansion, he massacres several of the personnel there and maims and cripples several others, even breaking off and eating the fingers of Lara Raith's sisters in front of her just for fun. Capturing Thomas, he has him tortured by having him hung up and than ripping strips of skin off him, piece by piece. When Thomas's vampiric Healing ability is about to give out, "Shagnasty" then gives him a random, innocent woman — as young as 16 — and, since by this point, Thomas has completely lost control of his Horror Hunger, he winds up raping them to death. "Shagnasty" than repeats the process over a dozen times simply to satisfy his sadistic whims, proving himself one of Harry's most sadistic and deadly foes.
  • Samuel Peabody, seemingly merely the pompous, paperwork-obsessed head of the White Council's clerical department, is secretly a member of the Black Council. Infecting the minds of numerous wizards, including nearly all the younger wardens, with his magical ink, Peabody subtly brainwashed several into becoming his "suicide bombers". Throughout the Red Court war, Peabody sabotaged the White Council, confusing the Senior Councillors minds and passing their secrets to the Reds, causing them to lose numerous devastating battles; Peabody also personally sabotaged Archangel's defenses, allowing the vampires to wipe out the entire city. Peabody likewise gave the vampires the information that allowed them to carry out a devastating nerve gas attack on the wounded, also killing thousands of innocent civilians as collateral. Summoning a Shoggoth for the Black Council to exploit, Peabody forcibly bound it to Catherine Taylor, risking unleashing "an era of horror and carnage as yet unknown to man". Attempting to start a civil war within the White Council, leaving them too weak to continue to stand against the Reds, Peabody brainwashed Captain Luccio into murdering Senior Councillor Aleron LaFortier, planning to ensure her and Donald Morgan's executions, escalating tensions with Aleron's numerous supporters and triggering potential mutinies within the Wardens. When Peabody was finally caught, he unleashed a Mistfiend upon the Council in an attempt to cover his escape.
• Genius Bonus: Nature-savvy readers will appreciate that all the animal-forms assumed by the naagloshii and Listens-To-Winds are indigenous to North America. Some like the bear or coyote are obvious, but the black-footed ferret, flying squirrel, and alligator are nice touches.
• Harsher in Hindsight: Harry's comments about how wizards hate to feel helpless and Molly's joking about what she should do if anything were to happen to him become much more painful after the events of Changes and Ghost Story.
• Jerkass Woobie: This book, more than any else, really highlights how much of a tragic figure that Morgan really is.
• Squick:
  • Harry's stomach-churning description of the Skinwalker through his Sight.
  • Lara Raith raping her cousin Madeline to death while disemboweling her. Suffice to say, the reader will most certainly be just as sickened as both Harry and Binder are.
  • How the Skinwalker tortured Thomas — Namely, repeatedly skinning him alive.

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