Libriomancer (Magic Ex Libris Book 1)

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He goes into a 21st century Nice Guy tailspin wanting the 1960s sex slave without wanting to take responsibility for his desires.

It’s a bit dull, but things liven up when the library is attacked by three vampires (some vampires are natural, others are created via texts).

This book, with its deceptively simple central concept, and clever exploration of how that would pan out for real, totally drew me in in a way that I haven't experienced for a long time and reminded me why I fell in love with this genre in the first place.

Add to this that her other owner is the therapist of the libriomancer (a therapist he doesn't even like much, who was imposed on him by his employer) and the whole thing is a just a stinkbomb of unexamined issues. It is so much fun and an ode to books, to reading as well as to genre-fiction especially Scifi and Fantasy. The hero has a number of faults, making a number of questionable decisions, tending to martyristic actions and generally ruthlessly using the non-humans (such as planting a bomb on a vampire). and because I thought I'd quite like to read a fantasy written by someone who isn't blind to white, het, male privilege.It was an uncomfortable read at times with regards to Lena but that made the book less mindless fun and a lot more impacting and affecting for me.