After Mason is attacked by a giant magical spider, he realizes things around San Francisco are even weirder than normal. Since he used to be a supernatural enforcer, his threshold for “weird” 
is a little higher than the average jazz musician’s. In an effort to get to the bottom of what’s going wrong in his city, Mason decides to look up his old coworkers.
Even though much of Dog Days falls back on some urban fantasy standbys—a brooding hero with an authority problem and a talent that’s just a little unusual—John Levitt manages to give the old a new twist using Mason, a pretty average guy with an interesting outlook, and Mason’s sidekick, a dog that’s a bit more than meets the eye.
While it might seem that there isn’t anything particularly stellar to set this book apart, it’s definitely worth reading just because the main character is pretty cool. You might even end up searching the internet in hopes of finding a sequel. Unfortunately, this is the first in the series, and we won’t be seeing Mason again for a little while. In the meantime, check out Dead to Me by Anton Strout and Storm Front by Jim Butcher.
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