Book Series Urban Fantasy
But what i think is most important when putting a list like this together is the quality of the books that make the cut.
Book series urban fantasy. Urban fantasy must be set in a specific contemporary city in which the flavour of that city strongly influences the story. Stand alone uf novels such as neverwhere or war for the oaks should not be added to this list. However you define it it s been a wildly popular field for some time and there s lots of great books out there.
25 great urban fantasy series urban fantasy is a slippery sort of sub genre but to me calling a book urban fantasy means it is set in a modern urban society with an overlay of fantasy elements e g magic monsters etc. Best urban fantasy series. Rachel starts out as a klutzy witch and grows into a supernatural force to be reckoned with as over the course of 13 books she faces vampires elves and world destroying plots.
Text is available under the creative. All things urban fantasy paranormal picks. It s not much older than i am either the first book considered to be urban fantasy was moonheart published in 1984 by charles de lint with terri windling following close behind with her borderlands series in 1986 and the term itself was coined in 1997.
In this world a magic apocalypse has left all systems totally unpredictable neither technology nor magic functions as it should and when one works the other inevitably fails not unlike in the borderland universe but to an even greater extreme. Atticus o sullivan last of the druids lives peacefully in arizona running an occult bookshop and shape shifting in his spare time to hunt with his irish wolfhound. This short list of fun urban fantasy books and series blurs the lines a bit between a strict definition of urban fantasy and say paranormal or supernatural fantasy.
Ilona andrews gritty magic series has been one of the most prominent in urban fantasy over the past few years and it all kicked off with magic bites. 9 fun urban fantasy books series. It s one of the most well known well loved series running and for damn good reasons.
The dresden files by jim butcher 16 books wizard harry dresden is the king of urban fantasy and the dresden files are the gold standard for the gene. The hollows by kim harrison 13 books another recently completed cornerstone of urban fantasy is the rachel morgan series. Iron druid chronicles by kevin hearne this series offers a fresh voice in the urban fantasy world with a touch of old world magic featuring one of our rare male leads.