Tag: urban fantasy
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Belladonna U by Tansy Rayner Roberts
Review of series Belladonna U by Tansy Rayner Roberts including Unreal Alchemy, Holiday Brew and Practical Witching. Belladonna U is a series about a group of university students studying magic at an Australian magical university while living in a shared house and making geeky music and playing role-playing games. It’s wonderfully geeky, whimsical and fun.…
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Blood of the Earth by Faith Hunter
Review of Blood of the Earth by Faith Hunter, the first book in the Soulwood series. A dark urban fantasy series centered around a christian cult, dryads and vampires. Nell is trying to escape her life in the christian cult when a group of Homeland Security shifters turn up on her doorstep investigating a local…
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Rivers of London by Ben Aaronovitch
Review of the Rivers of London series by Ben Aaronovitch. Rivers of London is about the police constable Peter Grant in London, that discovers that magic is real and is roped into the supernatural branch of the British police… It’s Peter and an elderly wizard called Nightingale.
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12 more fun urban fantasy recommendations
I have more urban fantasy recommendations for you! I found 12 more wonderful books for you, that wasn’t included in my last list of recommendations. Quite a few of the books are focused around agencies dealing with the supernatural, while others are focused more on relationships within the books. The list includes urban fantasy recommendations…
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October Daye by Seanan McGuire
Review of the urban fantasy series October Daye by Seanan McGuire. If you are interested in the idea of the fay hiding in our world, then you should check out the October Daye books.
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Borderline by Mishell Baker
My review of Borderline by Mishell Baker, an urban fantasy book about Hollywood, mental health, neurodiversity and the fay.
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Dark Currents by Jacqueline Carey
Review of Dark Currents by Jacqueline Carey. A urban fantasy with interesting characters and a heroine who isn’t all powerful, but have to ask for help and lean on the people around her.
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Jane Yellowrock series
Review of Black Arts and Broken Soul by Faith Hunter which are part of the Jane Yellowrock series. A very strong urban fantasy series about Jane Yellowrock a skinwalker of Cherokee descent who works for the vampires of New Orleans taking down rough vampires, who are trying to police them self. The series is action…
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Moon Called & Blood Bound
Review of Moon Called & Blood Bound by Patricia Briggs in the Mercy Thompson Series. The series is solid urban fantasy with great characters.
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The Lone Ranger Gal in urban fantasy
I love urban fantasy and I read a lot of it. A sizeable chunk of what I read is urban fantasy, but there is one trope I think is way to common: The Lone ranger Gal. the lone female character, who has no female friends and very few female interactions. In some books it is…