The Blue Librarian

I've been reading Molly Harper's books for over ten years now and she never ceases to surprise me. She has an incredible sense of humor and a knack to build interesting female and male characters that will keep me engaged throughout each of her books. The first book I read was 'Nice girls don't have fangs' and I connected instantly with the main character who is a librarian that gets turned into a vampire after the town drunk idiot mistakes her for a deer while walking home, shots her and lets her to die on the side of the road. While Molly's first and most famous series is concentrated around vampires, now she decided to go into a different direction: dragons! 'How to date your dragon' was a great surprise, not only for the change of subjects but because I decided to purchase it as an audio book. I can only say that this added an extra flavor to the book. We have the main characters, Jillian Ramsay, brought to life by the narrator Amanda Ronco...

Being a cop is difficult but being a cop in a small city where Gods come to take a vacation adds a new meaning to the word stress. So welcome to Ordinary! Let your worries behind, embrace a new life, a new name and mingle among Gods, creatures, vampires, werewolves and humans alike. If you need a place to stay Hades runs a cozy B&B down the street. Looking for a new suit? Zeus is the guy for you, his fancy shop is worth the money. Want a souvenir? Why don't you buy a wooden sculpture from Odin? Need someone to supervise your kids? Ares runs the local kindergarten. In the evening you can go grab a beer and something to eat at Hera's pub, play pool with vampires and werewolves and meet the town law enforcement family - the Reed sisters. Police chief Delaney Reed and her sisters Myra and Jean are the main characters in Devon Monk's 'Ordinary magic' series. All three of them possess special skills suitable for their jobs. Delaney, the oldest, is the bridge f...

      I rarely come across a book that I end up reading in a day. I admit, I like funny romance books from time to time. They are relaxing, put your mind at ease after a stressful day.       It is a habit I took in college when at the end of each semester I used to have a round of eight exams almost one after the other and after all that pressure I really needed a brain eraser. And this is when the romance books come into play. It was over twenty years ago, before the times of Harry Potter, light vampire stories and tons of teenager focused romance literature. It was the time of Sandra Brown and Sidney Sheldon, and, much as it is today, those books were following the same pattern and story line so it is not quite a surprise I cannot remember much about them. After all, I was calling them brain erasers because they were having that reset effect.       Nowadays, if you do not want to read vampire or different kind of undead or supernatural ...

There is no need for many words to write a good story. There is no need for complicated words for the story to touch your soul. 'The spirit hour' is a collection of five short tales about lost souls: 'The Blue Lady', 'The Phone Call', 'Haunted Hearts', 'Blue Angel' and 'The Reawakening'. Almost every one of them is different but all  are touching your heart in a very distinctive way. You feel the loss, you feel the pain and the heartbreak. When you pick up the book you imagine you will find inside the Grim Reaper, horror stories with a twist and yes, some of them may scare or frighten you but not in the way horror stories do. You meet in these pages the ones that passed away and the ones that are left behind. You feel their loss, you mourn them and you get to cherish life and the people around you even more with every turning of the page. For me, Tara Theresa Hill's book was a memorable read and her collection of stories will be...

What do you do when you find your surgeon husband playing tonsils hockey with a nurse in the OR? You pack your stuff, move into your best friend spare cottage, hide indoors and stuff your face with cheesecake and ice cream till the severance money run out and then start working as your best friend assistant at the city morgue. OK, maybe this is not what you'd do but it is what Mattie Winston did. Former ER and OR nurse, she cannot go back working in the Sorenson's only hospital where the whole affair happened and her husband is working still so her best friend Izzy decides to use her cutting people skills and nosiness and have her help him as deputy coroner. While Mattie is a fair skinned, 6 feet blonde with a body that has a healthy layer of thermal insulation, Izzy has olive skin, is 5 feet tall, gay and as wide as he is tall. He plays house with Dom, a fair skin beautiful man with insane cooking skills and great sense of humor and provide support to Mattie in her trans...

When we think about wizards we think old men with long white beards and pointy hats. Or guys with long robes, long hair carrying a long carved staff way taller than them. You do not imagine for one minute a guy wearing a leather duster coat driving a beaten Blue Beetle. Harry Dresden is Chicago's first and only wizard P.I. You can even find him in the newspaper: HARRY DRESDEN — WIZARD Lost Items Found. Paranormal Investigations. Consulting. Advice. Reasonable Rates. No Love Potions, Endless Purses, Parties or Other Entertainment But despite his uniqueness, the business sucks. Probably it sucks because Harry is the quintessential good guy. He helps everyone in need even if this puts his life in danger. He fights all sort of monsters, vampires, demons, spirits, faeries, werewolves and opens our eyes to a different world. A world where magic exists and we need someone like Dresden to protect us. And who can do this better than him? He is the son of Margaret La...