Looking for Urban Fantasy books
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The best of Urban Fantasy according to waterstones -
Storm Front
by Jim Butcher
Ill Wind
by Rachel Caine
Someone Comes
to Town, Someone
Leaves Town
by Cory Doctorow
American Gods
by Neil Gaiman
Black Magic Woman
by Justin Gustainis
Into the Nightside
by Simon R. Green
Moonheart
by Charles de Lint
Never the Bride
by Paul Magrs
Un Lun Dun
by China Miéville
The Good Fairies
of New York
by Martin Miller
American Gods is a particular favourite of mine.
Classification for Urban Fantasy Varies with some places using it to describe only the recent spate of Vampire Books set in modern life but it generally covers a much bigger Genre.
Storm Front
by Jim Butcher
Ill Wind
by Rachel Caine
Someone Comes
to Town, Someone
Leaves Town
by Cory Doctorow
American Gods
by Neil Gaiman
Black Magic Woman
by Justin Gustainis
Into the Nightside
by Simon R. Green
Moonheart
by Charles de Lint
Never the Bride
by Paul Magrs
Un Lun Dun
by China Miéville
The Good Fairies
of New York
by Martin Miller
American Gods is a particular favourite of mine.
Classification for Urban Fantasy Varies with some places using it to describe only the recent spate of Vampire Books set in modern life but it generally covers a much bigger Genre.
I have a copy of Good Omens. Like Neverwhere I read about half of it.
Oddly enough I don't like Good Omens much at all (which is hilarious considering it's the first Pratchett book I started reading). I hate the constant perspective shifts to characters I don't care about, I hate the long asides the book makes for gags that don't work for me (okay, the end of the world is funny. MOVE. ON.) and I don't like that one scene with that woman who kills everyone in a bar. That last part sounded like it was written for a non-existant movie adaptation.
I might finish it someday but probably only 'after' I've read every other book by Pratchett.
Oddly enough I don't like Good Omens much at all (which is hilarious considering it's the first Pratchett book I started reading). I hate the constant perspective shifts to characters I don't care about, I hate the long asides the book makes for gags that don't work for me (okay, the end of the world is funny. MOVE. ON.) and I don't like that one scene with that woman who kills everyone in a bar. That last part sounded like it was written for a non-existant movie adaptation.
I might finish it someday but probably only 'after' I've read every other book by Pratchett.
Did you read the "Borribles" trilogy by Michael De Larrabeiti? The titles of the books are "The Borribles", "The Borribles Go for Broke" and "Across the Dark Metropolis". The trilogy is slightly different from the usual fantasy though, Actually I find the usual fantasy pretty boring; in the end the prince always saves the country and gets the princess, more or less.
Ursula K. Le Guin's "Left Hand of Darkness" is on the borderline between Fantasy and SF; definitely worth reading. it is VERY different. Only partially urban though because the two main characters have to flee across the country in a large part of the book.
And try the books of Walter Moers; he is even weirder than Pratchett. I am not sure all of them have been translated into English though, but at least "The City of Dreaming Books" has.
Ursula K. Le Guin's "Left Hand of Darkness" is on the borderline between Fantasy and SF; definitely worth reading. it is VERY different. Only partially urban though because the two main characters have to flee across the country in a large part of the book.
And try the books of Walter Moers; he is even weirder than Pratchett. I am not sure all of them have been translated into English though, but at least "The City of Dreaming Books" has.
