Benjamin January Mysteries

So I'm reading the Benjamin January mysteries by Barbara Hambly and they are, to my mind, pretty much perfect.

( Review, with some spoilage hinted at )

Also, it appears that LJ is still the best place I know for things like book reviews. Tumblr won't let me put in proper paragraph breaks, and G+ and facebook don't really feel like the right place to discuss anything with more complexity than you can fit in a single sentence. So here I am.