What a delightful find! Hearne is now officially in my top-10 list of favourite UF authors. As far as UF goes, it's got lots going for it: enough gods and history to rival Karen Chance (and since Chance has a PhD in history, that's saying something) and plenty of action, well described but not overly choreographed. But what's really fantastic is Hearne's unique voice. The very appealing narrator/hero, a 2100-year old Druid, switches seamlessly and convincingly between modern-day collegiate and more archaic-sounding speech patterns, and he's funny. Not funny in a hit-the-reader-over-the-head sort of way. Quietly funny in a way that reminds me of the early Sookie Stackhouse books, before Sookie turned bitter. 
 Oh, except for the scene where he gives a couple magical wedgies to the pompous paramedic. That's not quietly funny. That's guffawingly funny. 
 The back cover says the author is a high school English teacher. Good lord, I wish he'd been my English teacher. 
 Also, Hearne single-handedly made me love lawyers. Now that's powerful writing. 
 Props for the great cover, too. 
 Quotes: 
 - "The police are now tools of the love god." "They're definitely tools," I agreed. 
 - "Tell him to be careful on the leather seats." "Sybarite," I said. "Ascetic," he retorted.