When he regained coherence two days later, he was in Ontario, dressed in a 19th century Mountie uniform. All Therapists Are Muggles: Nidhi Shah is a normal human, who, however, knows about The Masquerade and has a tattoo that stops mind intrusion. Isaac is all of these things, but he’s also joyful and transparent and emotional and has somehow maintained an innocence that is incredibly sweet. Sometimes larger things escape, such as vampires, and the very best part of this book for me was Hines' entertaining discussion of how different species of vampires have evolved over the years from Sanguinarius Stokerus, old school vampires who are fearsomely strong but have many well defined vulnerabilities, to Sanguinarius Mayerii (AKA sparklers) who have fewer powers but are incredibly hard to get rid of. I'll admit a lot of it was too convoluted and outrageous for me (and this coming from a diehard fan of The Dresden Files series) but if action-packed and bombastic urban fantasy stories are your thing, this book might be worth checking out.

it was entertaining I thought of it like an american TV series i would definitely watch it if it was. At one point a character is tiny, a couple of inches high, but dust is still in the same proportions (some dust motes would be at least golf ball sized) and it doesn't take as long as it should to get from place to place. Libriomancers track down and punish supernaturals—mostly vampires and shapeshifters—who harm humans. If they want to sneak into a building, they can pull an invisibility cloak from a Harry Potter book.Lo anterior, junto a un estilo muy ágil y personajes con los que es imposible no empatizar, la hacen una novela 100% recomendable, tanto para los bibliotecarios de profesión, como para los de corazón. Even though there was actually a really interesting discussion of female agency in these kinds of stories, I just couldn't enjoy it. I love cool magic systems, but Libriomancy just doesn't seem to be one that lends itself to grow naturally in a reader's mind. The allusions to other popular novels only heightened the reading experience as it places fictional characters in the real world. For some readers, including myself, one of the primary ones is that the book speaks directly to the fantasy/sci fi geek in us.

However, as the antithesis of feminism, she is required by nature to have a lover, whose needs and interests then help define her.La novela es de una originalidad increíble, no sólo por la creación de esta magia que, además, está explicada de una forma muy inteligente, sino por el conflicto principal de esta entrega, que tiene un argumento muy bien pensado y que cuadra con todas las leyes de este worldbuilding. It's a great premise that springs into action in the beginning, and the first four chapters had me riveted. He claims to have read every sf/f book in his work library (3,000+), plus every vampire novel ever written, plus the ones that he needs that aren't there plus plenty of non-sf/f books plus all the ones he has to catalog for the agency--I don't think even a book a day would be enough to get through all that given that he's fairly young and couldn't have started reading all the adult stuff until the middle grades at the earliest.

Our Zombies Are Different: It's a small moment, but there's a fully sapient, non-rotting zombie in book four. But when Gutenberg vanishes without a trace, Isaac finds himself pitted against everything from vampires to a sinister, nameless foe who is bent on revealing magic to the world at large. BOOK ONE BLURB—Libriomancer (2012): Isaac Vainio is a Libriomancer, a member of the secret organization founded five centuries ago by Johannes Gutenberg. He only survives because his crush-of-sorts, the Dryad Lena Greenwood comes to his aid and tells him that Nidhi Shah, his therapist and the person Lena was supposed to be bodyguarding has been kidnapped. Revenge which begins with the brutal slaughter of a wendigo in the northern Michigan town of Tamarack, a long-established werewolf territory.

Having the main female character of this book have LESS FREE WILL AND SELF DETERMINATION THAN A SPIDER raises all kinds of issues that Hines doesn't seem to know what on earth to do with, so mostly he ignores them. Of course, this could have been extremely problematic but I felt that the author dealt with his own choice of creating such character really well as the text and all characters, including Lena, question this. Hines is now out with a new series, MAGIC EX LIBRIS, and judging by its introductory novel Libriomancer , this is going to be another winner. My experience with Jim Hines’s work has been limited to his PRINCESS series, which I thoroughly enjoyed.