They had—broken into my flat, with garlic. Maybe it’s a group of people running around stabbing unsuspecting citizens.”“There was nothing on the news about the murders that mentioned weird-shaped wounds,” Ruthven said. Monks?”“So he said,” Greta told him.
Just a moment while we sign you in to your Goodreads account. Tired, and older than the fortyish he usually appeared. . We're always reading and yet, there never seem to be enough books! “I couldn’t make out much of it, just that it sounded sort of ecclesiastical.”He had a remarkably beautiful voice, she noticed. Series: Book 1.
Sarah J. Maas is an author who almost needs no introduction, at least in the world of young and new adult fiction. “I’m sorry,” she said, tentatively, “I didn’t mean to startle you—”“I most devoutly apologize,” he said, without taking his hands away. Strange Practice is light-hearted fun, driven by the warm relationships between its protagonists and its unflagging humour. We’d love your help. It was a testament to this particular homeowner’s rather special powers of persuasion that nobody had succeeded in buying the house out from under him and turning it into offices for overpriced attorneys, she thought, and then had to smile at the idea of anybody dislodging Edmund Ruthven from the lair he’d inhabited these two hundred years or more. It wasn’t large—she had seen much nastier injuries from street fights, although in rather different species—but it was undoubtedly the “What made this?” she asked, looking closer, her gloved fingers careful on his skin. I just remember being amazed that there was a vampire before Dracula. This new Urban Fantasy was a rather slow starter for me.
“That’s strange,” she said. I don’t Ruthven had lit a fire, despite the relative mildness of the evening, and the creature lying on the sofa was covered with two blankets. 1—Mad Monks and Blue Light There’s been a … I always love a good twist on a classic character!Dr. But this one does!
Her day job is visited precisely once, and briefly, after which we only hear of it in passing. I read this in two sittings after DNFing two books in the same day and waA highly enjoyable urban fantasy, in which Greta Helsing (descendant of Abraham van) is a doctor for London's supernatural community. Strange Practice has more in common with the PC Grant books than with Dracula, The Vampyre, Varney the Vampire and the other Gothic classics it slyly borrows characters from (although they provide opportunities for sly humour, those with no context aren’t missing anything but in jokes).
It’s as if that thing, whatever it is, was directly responsible for the acute inflammatory reaction.”“And now that it’s gone, he’s starting to recover?”Ruthven backed away a few steps. For the past five years she had run a bare-bones clinic out of Wilfert Helsing’s old rooms in Harley Street, treating a patient base that to the majority of the population did not, technically, when you got right down to it, exist. Best of all are the quirky yet lovable characters.“Whatever you’re into is some fascinatingly weird shit.”“people are willing to overlook all kinds of eccentricities if you present them with enough money.” Just that he’d been jumped by several people armed with a strange kind of knife.”“Mm. “It’s my job,” she said. Eight people dead, all apparently the work of the same individual, all stabbed to death, all The MO didn’t exactly match how Varney had described his attack—multiple assailants, a strange-shaped knife—but it was way the hell too close for Greta’s taste. I'm looking forward to reading the rest of this series! “That’s The beat was noticeably slower. “I can perhaps understand the generalized motivation to provide care for a disenfranchised patient base, but he isn’t a patient, he’s an enemy captive.”After a reread: the "black and white" version is just as nice as the audiobook, and in some ways better. I think the beginning and end were the best parts. Greta just nodded, watching him.“I don’t know if you’ve ever read an ancient penny-dreadful called “Ages ago,” she said. This world is basically our own world with a hidden world underneath of it populated by supernatural being including vampires, mummies, ghouls, demons, and even forgotton, eternal creatures. “I don’t really like the look of him,” he said now, standing in the doorway with uncharacteristic awkwardness. Garlic was everywhere. In her consulting rooms, Dr. Helsing treats the undead for a host of ills - vocal strain in banshees, arthritis in barrow-wights, and entropy in mummies. That was a pretty specialized tactic, after all. Our Goodreads lists are an eclectic assortment of genres -- and we love to share our thoughts.