One character is a fire spider, written to be helpful and loyal, who has settled into being our main character's pet, sidekick and watch dog and who has developed a personality of his own.

The plot is a little more than basic in that the hero is cast aside by the organisation from which he belongs and has to save the day without anything more than a little help in the form of a dryad and a fire spider.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. I mean, what could you possibly expect from a book where the magic of reading is not only metaphorical but a literal thing? When he's not writing, reading, reviewing, or teaching, he can usually be found with his wife and son on the frisbee golf course or the ultimate frisbee field. If they want to sneak into a building, they can pull an invisibility cloak from a Harry Potter book.

All total, I was packing sixteen titles when I finished, including a hardcover in the front that should provide a little extra protection for the heart. There was a quote in the book that resonated with me, and I posted it on Facebook as I read the line: "Even before I learned what I was, books were my escape from the world. Born decades ago from the pages of a pulp fantasy novel, Lena was created to be the ultimate fantasy woman, strong and deadly, but shaped by the needs and desires of her companions.Jim invited me to send a few autographed copies of the Obloeron series to his Christmas Book Drive for a battered women's shelter in his native Michigan a few years back, and I didn't hesitate.

Like I said, great idea, but it's not so fun when you're always finding inconsistencies and then waiting for the narrator to explain them.So as we race along through the plot with Isaac and Lena, we get to make lots of little side trips down memory lane as Isaac uses an artifact from The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe; The Road to Oz, A Wrinkle in Time, and so on. Real-Person Fic: In-universe, Gutenberg, under the pen name of Darcy Nacht, wrote fan fiction about Shakespeare and Elton John. Butt-kicking librarians, pyrotechnic spiders, and vampires that don’t suck ― Jim Hines serves up an incendiary and fun new urban fantasy! When Isaac is attacked by vampires that leaked from the pages of books into our world, he barely manages to escape.

Reading Is Cool" Aesop: Isaac often waxes poetic about the sheer joy of reading, is a professional librarian, and every other libriomancer is an avid reader themselves. Rules like Libriomancers can only pull out smaller objects, no bigger than the size of the open book which is the magical "window" to the world of the book. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. a wee bit infodumpy the first third, some slightly overextended scenes between our Porter protagonist and the Vampires, quite a large acceleration thereafter. Also I think that there is enough evidence from the author to suggest that this story will become more and more layered as the series develops and I will come back and reread this book and think ahah!To sum up the story, Issac was kicked out of the field and given a desk job as a Librarian and secret cataloger of new useful or dangerous books after his superiors became worried about his mental stability.