Tag: urban fantasy
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Blood Price by Tanya Huff
Review of Blood Price by Tanya Huff one of the oldest examples of urban fantasy that is recognizable as such. There are so many of the core elements of urban fantasy present in this 1991 take on the genre including a vampire romance.
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Clean Sweep by Ilona Andrews
Review of Clean Sweep by Ilona Andrews. An urban fantasy novel about a witch and her magical inn with strong worldbuilding.
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Skin Game and The Dresden Files by Jim Butcher
Review of Skin Game by Jim Butcher and a mini-review of The Dresden Files – they are classic urban fantasy books. If you ask someone to recommend you some good urban fantasy books, The Dresden Files is going to come up. There is also quick reviews of some of the other individual books in the…
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Kate Daniels series & Magic Bleeds
Review of the Kate Daniels series by Ilona Andrews with a focus on book 4 Magic Bleeds. The Kate Daniels books are set in a post-apocalyptic magical future filled with were-shifters.
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Half-Off Ragnarok by Seanan McGuire
Review of Half-Off Ragnarok by Seanan McGuire. Half-Off Ragnarok is book 3 in the InCryptid series. We follow Alex who is a zoologist who helps cryptid individuals of his local community.
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The Hollow series & The Undead Pool
Review of The Hollow series by Kim Harrison including Dead Witch Walking & The Undead Pool. The Hollows books are page turners and i read all of them in a very short amount of time. The world building is interesting and so is the magic, which involves dealing with demons.
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The Circle
Review of The Circle by Mats Strandberg & Sara Bergmark Elfgren. The Circle is a swedish urban fantasy novel about five young women in a small town learning magic and finding friendship.
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The Atrocity Archives & Laundry Files
Review of The Atrocity Archives and The Jennifer Morgue by Charles Stross book 1 & 2 of the Laundry Files. The Laundry Files is an urban fantasy thriller series set in London. Bob Howard is a low-level techie working for a super-secret government agency that deals with the supernatural.
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The Master Conjurer
Review of the short story The Master Conjurer by Charlie Jane Anders. The Master Conjurer was first published in Lightspeed Magazine.
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Fury of the Demon by Diana Rowland
Review of Fury of the Demon by Diana Rowland, book 6 in the Karen Gillan series. “Cop and conjurer of demons, she’s a woman in danger of losing control to a power that could kill.”