Urban Fantasy – Page 26 – Cannonball Read 17

Urban Fantasy in London – Yay!

Midnight Riot by Ben Aaronovitch

August 25, 2019 by Jen K 1 Comment

I think I saw this series mentioned a while back on Cannonball Read and added it to my wish list but didn’t download it until my last trip to London. I quite enjoy urban fantasy series but most of them tend to start with the hero already involved in the magical world, even if they have no idea how little they know. Of course, then there are the other stories about magic and the supernatural, where a person who had no previous knowledge of them, […]

Summer is perfect for hot romance short stories

Burning Up by Nalini Singh, Angela Knight, Mejean Brooks, Virginia Kantra

August 10, 2019 by teresaelectro Leave a Comment

When reading a long series, it’s nice to take a break with a genre collection under an interesting theme. Burning Up brings together four authors who know how to bring the heat to a supernatural romance! As I heard only great things about Nalini Singh, I decided to bring this on my adult spring break trip to Hawaii. I procrastinated on my review and realized this is perfect for my Summer Reads bingo square. I highly recommend powering through a sexy anthology on the plane. […]

Bingo: And So It Begins, with free running off the rooftops of New York

Discount Armageddon (Incryptid Series Book 1) by Seanan Maguire

August 5, 2019 by sistercoyote Leave a Comment

Verity (“Very”) Price has more going on than you’d think. In addition to working as a waitress at a strip club, subletting semi-legally, preparing for a dance competition, and generally trying to keep a roof over her head (and those of her colony of Aeslin Mice), she’s also responsible for keeping tabs on New York’s cryptid population. Which doesn’t leave her much, if any, time for dating.

I Can Always Use A New Urban Fantasy Series

Grave Witch by Kalayna Price

August 5, 2019 by Jen K 1 Comment

After I saw teresaelectro’s review of the first three novels in the series, I figured this would be right up my lane. Despite that I was rather pleasantly surprised by how much I liked this initial entry. Even some of my favorite urban fantasy series have struggled to find their footing in the first novel, not really hitting their stride till book two or three, such as the Kate Daniels series and even the October Daye series. While I know there is much more to […]

The things we do for book clubs (a parenthetical rant)

The Hum and the Shiver by Alex Bledsoe

July 29, 2019 by Bothari43 5 Comments

I was all excited when I discovered that a used bookstore near me has a science fiction book club. I listened to the audio book of their pick. It was wretched, but I’m still looking forward to the meeting. Hopefully it will make for some interesting discussion! I fully admit that urban fantasy is not my jam, so maybe this book is just fine and the fault was with the reader. However, the bratty, unlikeable main character (I refuse to call her the protagonist or […]

I was bored but I read them all anyway, so joke’s on me

Written in Red by Anne Bishop

Murder of Crows by Anne Bishop

Vision in Silver by Anne Bishop

Marked in Flesh by Anne Bishop

Etched in Bone by Anne Bishop

July 23, 2019 by alwaysanswerb 3 Comments

Anne Bishop’s The Others series is a little bit odd. There is a lot in the books that is cool, interesting, and different, but I also found parts of the books to be tedious and amateurish. Bishop is not some green writer, so I can only assume that it’s just her style… which makes me hesitant to seek out her other books. I finished out this series because I was sufficiently curious how it would end, but overall I felt that the books didn’t quite […]

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