Urban Fantasy
Urban Fantasy Goes Small Town in Etched in Bone
First, a confession: I haven’t read the previous books in Anne Bishop’s Others series. Because of that, I went into…
6 Reasons Sarah Kuhn Loves Seanan McGuire’s InCryptid Novels
Sarah Kuhn knows from fun, funny urban fantasy—after all, she wrote Heroine Complex, one of our favorite books of last…
If Loving The Wrong Dead Guy Is Wrong, We Don’t Want to Be Right
After the end-of-the-world antics of 2016’s The Everything Box, I figured Richard Kadrey would have a tough time out-apocalypsing himself with…
Thunderbird Steers Urban Fantasy into Stranger Territory
It’s been a minute since we’ve had a chance to spend time with Chuck Wendig’s Miriam Black, the cigarette-smoking, liquor-swilling, foul-mouthed…
Bookburners: Season One Is a Storytelling Experiment as Addictive as Your Favorite TV Show
It’s one of those ideas that, in hindsight, seems inevitable It works so well in television; why wouldn’t it work in the…
16 Complete Urban Fantasy Series to Binge-Read All the Way Through
We recently provided you with a list of a dozen ongoing urban fantasy series for your binge-reading pleasure, but if…
12 Highly Bingeable Urban Fantasy Series
By now. you’ve probably finished your Netflix Luke Cage binge. Undoubtedly you feel bereft, adrift, and without anything new to fill your brainspace. If…
Taking a Late-Night Tour of A City Dreaming
There’s a juggling act at the heart of Daniel Polansky’s new novel A City Dreaming. Not literally, of course—though very little…
Spells of Blood and Kin Is an Absorbing, Unusual Urban Fantasy
Urban fantasy may be the most seductive fantasy subgenre—the one that makes it easiest to put yourself inside the story. That thing…
Daniel O’Malley Talks Stiletto, Writing a Razor-Sharp Sequel
We’ve been waiting four long years for Stiletto, Daniel O’Malley’s followup to the much-adored, genre-bursting urban fantasy/horror thriller/suspense yarn The…
What’s in The Everything Box? An Apocalyptic Romp
Some authors might be happy to crack the formula for one successful series. Richard Kadrey is not one them. His multi-volume Sandman Slim gritty urban…
The Cormorant Is a Deep Dive into a Dark Place
In the annals of wildly likable female antiheroes, the name Miriam Black should be up in lights, right next to Scarlett O’Hara and Lisbeth Salander.…
9 Things about Mercy Thompson
I’m embarrassed to say I discovered Mercy Thompson relatively recently, but since then, I’ve been tearing through Patricia Briggs’ urban…
Borderline Introduces a Flawed, Frustrating, Unforgettable Urban Fantasy Heroine
By the time you flip the last page of Mishell Baker’s debut fantasy Borderline, you will believe in faeries with enough vehemence…
A Criminal Magic Is an Intoxicating Urban Fantasy
Even for students of history who understand the context surrounding it, the Prohibition era is a puzzling slice of time.…
The Second Cut Is the Deepest: City of Blades Is a Masterful Sequel
City of Stairs was, without question, my favorite book of 2014. Robert Jackson Bennett’s masterful first stab at epic fantasy plotted…
Weird at Last, Weird at Last: The Welcome to Night Vale Novel Is Here
Imagine you are reading a book. But the book is a podcast. The podcast is not something that can be…