I'm reading my way through the Kate Daniels series by Ilona Andrews which includes Magic Bites, Magic Burns, Magic Strikes, a short story in the Must Love Hellhounds anthology, and a new book being released tomorrow titled Magic Bleeds. Kate is an ass-kicking mercenary-turned-cop in a world full of shifters, vampires, witches and demons where the world fluctuates between flares of magic and a normal state where technology actually works. Kate is a powerful magician who keeps her power very deeply hidden for fear of death if she's found out. She's tasked with assignments that always get her involved with the local shifter pack whose leader is Curran, the very strong and powerful were-lion. I love these books! I love urban fantasy books with a strong female lead character, so these are right up my alley. I definitely recommend them.
Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter is the latest book by Seth Grahame-Smith who also wrote Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. Like PP&Z, this book was decent but it didn't quite go as far as I wanted it too. It was a little on the dry side. I wanted something more; more crazy, more funny, more outrageous, more something. But I did enjoy reading it. It tells Abe's vampire hunting history, starting with the death of his mother from a vampire and delves into the 'real' reason for the civil war (lest you think it was merely about slavery). My favorite parts of the book were the old photographs touched up so show either the vamp-killing axe in Abe's hand or random vampires lurking in crowds. I would recommend you pick it up only if you have a real interest in reading this. If you pick it up as a casual read you may be slightly disappointed.
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