[ SECRET POST #6179 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #6179 ⌋

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Comments

[kaijinscendre]

The only fantasy I like is urban fantasy. Can't stand high fantasy.

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, and I'm really surprised the secret posters sees it as a way to "dodge worldbuilding"! Urban fantasy has terrific and complex worldbuilding!

Recs?

[(Anonymous)]

Please rec me some urban fantasy with terrific and complex worldbuilding!

Re: Recs?

[(Anonymous)]

NAYRT, but my fave urban fantasy series is Rivers of London.

I really like the world-building in terms of how magic works and the range of magical entities that exist.

Re: Recs?

[(Anonymous)]

The world building is almost exactly the same as the real world, except the colonialism and copaganda is magic too.

Re: Recs?

[(Anonymous)]

Rivers of London, as the other commenter has recced
The City and the City by China Mieville
War for the Oaks by Emma Bull (a great 80s period piece now!)
I loved various books by Charles de Lint, but particularly the Newport series
I know Anita Blake gets a bad wrap and deservedly so, but the first five or so books are actually pretty good outside the werewolf parts and I deeply wish she'd continued exploring the necromancy stuff
American Gods and the Sandman comics by Neil Gaiman (and artists) which just gets better and better as it goes along

A lot of people like the Dresden Files but I can't stand the narrator.

Re: Recs?

[(Anonymous)]

As a person who actually was in Dresden Files fandom, this books are shitty do not recommend.

Re: Recs?

[(Anonymous)]

As a person who really tried to get into The Dresden Files, I found that the Rivers of London was everything I had hoped DF would shape up to be.

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[(Anonymous)]

+1 Anything the Dresden Files managed to do well, another urban fantasy has done better and without Harry's bullshit.

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[(Anonymous)]

I was always a big fan of the Hollows series by Kim Harrison, which has a pretty solid alternate world and is based 40 years after the "reveal" of nonhumans

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[(Anonymous)]

I remember being extremely disappointed with how the series ended, but liking it quite a lot up until that point.

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[(Anonymous)]

Saaaame, but that's a good solid dozen books that are very fun!

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[(Anonymous)]

If you liked the idea of Dresden Files but found it a bit unfulfilling/the narrator irritating, may I suggest the Eric Carter books by Stephen Blackmoore?

Re: Recs?

[(Anonymous)]

Ooh I think someone recced that series on here before and I read the first one, can confirm is very enjoyable. And I did try and read the Dresden files but it felt a bit... icky male gazy? If that makes sense. And the Eric Carter books do NOT feel that way (at least the first one didn't lol! I will read more but haven't had the chance, my tbr is 132 books long. T__T)

Re: Recs?

[(Anonymous)]

While they're not usually listed as urban fantasy, I'd say a number of Discworld books count as such. Especially the Moist von Lipwig books and most of the City Watch ones.

[(Anonymous)]

Maybe I'm weird or wrong (???) but I consider a lot of monster fiction to be urban fantasy, and I love vampires and werewolves and things in these settings.

So yes, if those are urban fantasy, they are my favorite.

[(Anonymous)]

Same. I rarely can get through High fantasy. Urban is much more fun

[(Anonymous)]

I don't HATE high fantasy, especially if you give me non-European based fantasy in general because so much of that has a very samey feel, but I definitely prefer urban.