I have such a conflict with this book...

First, I love the plot direction, and I'm here for the White Court and Council drama. It's everything I'm looking for reading a Dresden book.

But secondly, I don't understand why Jim Butcher decided to use a "yee naaldlooshii" (he didn't even spell it right in the book) as a monster. As a Navajo reading this book, the research and lore he did on the creature lacked severely. He didn't even get close to conceptualizing why this creature should be feared or the true impact of interacting with it.
This, along with the pan-indigenaity of Listens-to-Wind (Injun Joe), made this a rough read. There are a lot of concepts that are interesting to explore when Western frameworks are forced to acknowledge knowledge systems outside of their scope, but this was done poorly.

Don't get me wrong, I'll read the rest of the series, but there are so many ways to incorporate Indigenous storytelling into an urban fantasy, and this was not it.