Although John Charming looks human, he is part werewolf and genetically compelled to help keep the Pax Arcana, the shroud of secrecy that keeps most humans unaware of the supernaturals around us. Working as a bartender, he is fascinated by Sig, a six-foot-tall blond with something of the supernatural about her. It turns out she is a Valkyrie on the hunt for vampires responsible for the disappearance of several young women. John ends up teaming up with Sig and her cohorts: a psychic who looks like an old guy on steroids; his two Eastern European nephews; a cop, Choo, who is a professional exterminator; and Molly, a former Episcopal priest. In a saturated literary realm, James' tale stands out for the gritty, believable world he builds, and provides a reason for the genre's renewed strength. This is masculine urban fantasy in the vein of Jim Butcher and Mark del Franco.

-- Booklist Reviews

Meyers's steampunk western packs a sizzling demonic romance into a fast-paced quest through tiny frontier towns. Brothers Winchester, Remington, and Colt Jackson take up the family tradition of vampire and demon hunting, assisted by inventor Marley Turlock and his spectro-photometric oglifiers. Colt is looking for his father's Book of Legend, but to get it, he'll have to battle Rathe, a vampire, fallen archangel, and demon lord described as "Lucifer's ugly badman big brother." He also encounters Rathe's pawn, the succubus Lilly, and soon the supernatural sparks are flying. Meyers piles on the gee-whiz moments and eyeball kicks—including a steam-powered freeze machine, electric stun guns powered by Tesla coils, and a clockwork horse—in a well-crafted, eminently enjoyable story that will leave readers wanting more time with the Jackson brothers

Eerie, dreamlike, set in a world that is weirdly related to our own, The Gunslinger introduces Roland Deschain of Gilead, of In-World that was, as he pursues his enigmatic antagonist to the mountains that separate the desert from the Western Sea. Roland is a solitary figure, perhaps accursed, who with a strange singlemindedness traverses an exhausted, almost timeless landscape. The people he encounters are left behind, or worse—left dead. At a way station, however, he meets Jake, a boy from a particular time (1977) and a particular place (New York City), and soon the two are joined—khef, ka, and ka-tet. The mountains lie before them. So does the man in black and, somewhere far beyond...the Dark Tower.