Thraxas and the Sorcerers by Martin Scott AKA Martin Millar

I've been reading these as they have come out in the US. I've been too lazy to read the UK editions. This is book 5 in the series and starts just a few months after book 4. The nice thing is you really don't have to read the first books since each one is self contained. Yes it is better to read in order but nothing horrible will happen if you don't.

Book 5 has Thraxas once again saving the city's bacon even if he never gets any respect. The hero of the story like his beer and drugs(in moderation). I love how certain phrases are used several times in the book by different people. The books are just a fun romp. I have liked everything that I have read by Martin Millar and his pen name Martin Scott.

E. Godz by Robert Asprin & Esther Friesner

Take your typical sibling rivalry and crank it up a few notches helps start off the book. What looks like a mother's worst nightmare becomes the awakening of her children's love and respect for one another once good old mom has manipulated the situation to convince the kids that she is dying. Once they realize that they have been had they try to turn the tables.

I honestly felt like everything came together way too easy for the sibs to like one another again after all that time and to both decide to give up goals that they had worked for years to obtain. Just a once read and give away or toss in the dollar box. Not a keeper.