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For urban fantasy, I would recommend Rob Thurman every time. Her Leandros Brothers series is my favourite and it revolves around Cal Leandros who is the smart mouthed protagonist and also the son of an...
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The Smoke books are my utmost favourite, but I quite like Gate of Darkness, Circle of Light. If you can find it, you can get that one and The Fire's Stone (also a good one) in a single volume. It's...
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Great. I've never been able to reread White Night because that was the book that drove home that gay guys were going to portrayed as a joke at best and bi women and lesbians were going to be portrayed...
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The Dresden Files (and Codex Alera, for that matter) are full of general misogyny and sexism though, which has turned me off reading anything more by Jim Butcher. You can say it's just the character,...
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K.A Stewart's Jesse James Dawson series is really good. So far there are only three books, A Devil in the Details, A Shot in the Dark, and A Wolf at the Door. The main character, Jesse, gets paid to...
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I'm actually not super interested in reading urban fantasy in the noir/crime solving vein, nor writing it, but the Dresden Files sound like they might be pretty fun to read sometime. :)
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Yeah, Changes has a very accurate title, to say the least. It was totally unexpected, and that's a great thing. (especially because it means someone now has to live with the consequences of what they...
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They're certainly very easy to inhale, aren't they? I started the series while Proven Guilty was still in hardcover and did much the same thing. As for Changes, the absolute destruction of the status...
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I was just about to reccommend The Dresden Files, and then I saw you'd already done so! I just got into the series (as in, I read all fifteen books in the past week and a half...they're very good,...
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Charles de Lint is my go-to for UF as well. I would say that I prefer his short stories to his novels, however: I think he does better in the short format, while in novel form he can ramble and get...
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I looked these up, and they sound really interesting. I definitely check out A Madness of Angels sometime soon.
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No one here seems to have recommended Kate Griffin. Her Matthew Swift books are very London-centric UF focussed entirely on magic users rather than creatures. The system of magic she puts forward is...
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I've heard his books are good, so thank you for seconding what I've heard. :)
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Charles de Lint's Newford stories are, for my money, the best and most literate urban fantasy anyone is writing today. You can start just about anywhere, but The Onion Girl is one of my favorites.
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Thank you for this list! You've given me a lot of stuff that looks promising. I'm especially glad for the inclusion of some anthologies, as I really enjoy getting a taste of a variety of worlds without...
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Well, you're probably going to get multiple recs for Jim Butcher's series The Dresden Files. I don't know that I'd call it really atypical [wizard P.I., fantastic creature kitchen sink, werewolves and...
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Not YA. Youth. The YA stuff usually terrifies my inner prejudices and I often leave empty-handed, but in the Youth section I tend to come out with at least three books in hand and spend the next week...
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PS. I probably should've mentioned I'm not very fond of crime solving story lines unless they're very well done.
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