Carpe Demon

I just finished Julie Kenner's Carpe Demon, the first of a series of books about a middle-aged demon hunter. Overall verdict: a fairly interesting Buffyesque story, comparable but inferior to, e.g., Robin McKinley's Sunshine. Further details under the cut.

( Demons in Suburbia )

Food for Thought

Now this is, I think, an interesting passage, from Butcher's Princeps' Fury:

Oh, certainly, Gaius Sextus was likely one of the more erudite and learned Citizens in the Realm, but all the same, Isana had never understood men who made it a point to put trophies of their hunts on the walls, either. Gaius's study, its walls lined with the carcasses of books he had torn open and devoured, reminded her of nothing so much as old Aldo's hunting lodge, back in the Calderon Valley, and she thought it only marginally less boastful.