Favorite Fantasy Series

I am enjoying visiting with Kai and Quinn the last three days of their spring break. Even though the tv and the video games do most of the entertaining, they still let me drag them to the library and out of the house for a few hours. We're headed there soon. The library is still one of my favorite places -- I just finished a Dresden Files novel, Side Jobs, by J. Butcher and a Mercy Thompson novel, River Marked, by P. Briggs --Both fantasy series that I just love. Mercy Thompson is a strong women who turns into a coyote and is married to a werewolf. Don't you just love it? One of the things I like best about these two fantasies is that any sex scenes aren't blow by blow descriptions (no pun intended). There are novels where I literally skip 5 or 10 pages of intercourse descriptions to get back to the plot. I don't need all the details to know where we're going. I also like that both fantasies exist in extremely well-developed worlds, full of fascinating characters woven into what seems to be the modern world. I can't imagine how the authors keep it all straight, but both Butcher and Briggs do so very well and create that suspension of disbelief that's essential to a good fantasy. Unfortunately, I am up to date on both these authors, so it's off to the library to find something new to read. Some day I am going to break down and buy a hand held device that downloads books, but I would really miss the trips to the library and the friendly people there.