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Hm. I'm going out on a limb here and recommending "Last Call" by Tim Powers, which is urban fantasy I guess but is so different from the standard UF that I have a difficult time classifying it (maybe magical realism? is weird fiction still a thing?)
Basic premise is that Bugsy Siegel was the Fisher King of the American West, and his death left a power vacuum that many terrible people are trying to fill. In order to basically avoid having his soul eaten because he played a bad hand of poker ten years ago, Scott has to go thwart the plans of the man most likely to claim the throne... his father.

This book is fucking weird and there are no two ways about it. It's also really fucking good and is responsible for pretty much everything I know about the tarot, how to play poker, and Arthuriana.

Otherwise, I have a ridiculous love for Kat Richardson's "Greywalker" series, which unfortunately has 9 books which might be more than you're into, but has absolutely zero supernatural romance, a protagonist who takes no shit at all from anyone, and a recognition that if you can see souls, looking at a vampire would be fucking nauseating.

Well, you have successfully intrigued me in both of these.
It's true that I am a bit leery of investing in a 9 book series atm... I will try and see if I can get them from the library, though. I am definitely interested in taking a look.

Thank you for the recs :)))

If you're wary about it being 9 books, the first three or so books are absolutely self-contained and don't require any wrapping-up from the last half of the series, or even really needing to be read in the 'correct' order. 4 and 5 play off each other, as do 8 and 9, but the other ones are also pretty stand-alone as long as you've read in the right order.

I was about to recommend Last Call! Yeah, it's great and weird, and Tim Powers owns.

I'm probably still going to write a post, but let me just say that if you like Powers, you should definitely also check out James Blaylock.

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