Tanya Huff's _Blood Lines,_ _Blood Trail_ and _Blood Price_ are good
comfort food books; sort of detective vampire stories set in
Ontario. Not a whole lot of horror in them, and both the detective
(a woman who's had to quit the police force because of failing
eyesight) and the vampire (a polymorphously sexy, ageless being who
supports himself by writing historical romances) are kind of
engaging.
Kim Stanley Robinson's _Pacifice Edge_ is wonderful. It's by no means
lightweight, but it goes down easy; a believable, non-saccharine utopia
with very human conflicts.
I've always liked _Bone Dance_ and _War For the Oaks_ by Emma Bull. The
former is a blend of urban sf and fantasy; the latter a war between Good
and Evil in Faerie with a feyborn man eerily reminiscent of Prince as the
love interest. And I like _Tam Lin_ by Pamela Dean, which sets the Tam
Lin myth amongst Classics students on a university campus.
One more: _An Open Weave_ by devorah major. Magic realism. A
gently-told story about three generations of eldritch women in a little
town called Buttonhole right at the Mexican border.
Hope all goes well with you.
-nalo
"You'll say reality is under no obligation to be interesting. To which
I'd reply that reality may disregard the obligation but that we may not."
-Jorge Luis Borges
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