Codex Blair Series, Book 2 Blood Hunt / Izzy Shows / 293 pages

It’s been a year since Blair Sheach found out she was a mage and since she stopped the dark ritual that the necromancer tried to use to destroy the city.  It’s been pretty quiet, she’s gotten used to her powers and patrolling the city protecting the mundane from the supernatural. Shawn the ex-military medic that Fin once introduced her to to stitch her back up after the dark ritual has been flirting with her, which is weird, she’s not used to such attention and he doesn’t know about the supernatural world.  But things are heating up in her city, she has to kill a vampire to save a woman and that could be bad news if Dudley, the vampire in charge, can’t keep his grip on his people or if a rogue vampire is moving in on his turf. Then there’s her friend Fin, he works for the police department and he’s one of the only officers in the know about the supernatural world because of his high up position.  Fin’s not suppose to tell others about magic but he tells some of his subordinates because people are dying, five bodies have shown up around the city drained of blood and be-headed and Blair suspects there’s a bigger problem with the vampires than she first thought. And if this isn’t settled quickly then the secret about the supernatural world will be blown wide open and neither supernaturals or mundanes will be safe, not to mention what will happen if the Order of Mages finds out about her or that mundanes know. They keep tight control of human mages if they found out about her powers there’s only one thing they’d do to contain her, they would kill her.  Narrated by: Gemma Dawson 9h 19min.

Codex Blair Series, Book 1 Grave Mistakes / Izzy Shows / 335 pages

Blair Sheach can never keep down a normal job and anything that runs on electricity seems to break down on her at inconvenient times, like elevators when she’s in them.  But if she doesn’t pull some money together soon she’ll be out on the streets, her landlady has given her till the end of the month to pay the rent, only four days. She gets a job from a lady who saw one of her P.I. flyers (when she was trying that job) and beggars can’t be choosers.  She takes the unusual job the ladies husband has gone missing and apparently he’s cheating on her with a ghost, yeah right the lady has obviously read too many paranormal romance books. But as Blair delves into the case she finds out that magic really is real, that the case is more complicated than she thought because it  involves necromancers, and that she also has magic. Narrated by: Gemma Dawson 9h 23min.

Carry On / Rainbow Rowell / 528 pages / 11 discs

Carry On is the book so many Rainbow Rowell fans (including myself) have been waiting for since her book Fangirl was written!  It follows Simon Snow, the mage's heir, through his eighth year of school at Watford School of Magics as he tries to defeat the Insidious Humdrum and save the world of magicians from losing their magic.  Carry On is the fanfiction Cath worked so hard to complete during Fangirl and Rowell delivers completely on its story.  Simon and Baz (Simon's roommate and arch-nemesis) settle on a temporary truce to uncover who murdered Baz's mother and is subsequently responsible for turning Baz into a vampire.  The reader can relate to both characters' attempts to live up to the expectations of those around them as well as how they cope when life throws them for a loop with a love they never expected.