Hi, everyone! I have a question/social experiment for book fans or anyone who's read the series.

Who do you think would be the perfect cast for the main characters? Who did you imagine while reading? Leave your suggestions for the characters from the list below. You can provide multiple options, whether they're A-list or B-list Hollywood actors.

All ideas are welcome! Thanks in advance!

GRACE SAM BECK TOM CLUPPER JACK CLUPPER OLIVIA ISABEL RACHEL

Hello

I am looking for particular recommendations, and was wondering if anyone here had any, I would appreciate it (and don't care if its a web-novel, book, comic; whatever).

I have read and enjoyed a few novels where the premise was more or less, "magic gets introduced to earth and stuff goes bonkers". It's pretty prevalent in superhero stories (which are arguably urban fantasy), but often the post-apocalypse part is mostly a background thing; or that happened way before the main characters time.

I guess I'm looking for a Magic apocalypse, wherein humans are abruptly introduced to magic, then the story at least somewhat puts focus on the aftermath and/or the ramifications of it.

I am aware I could find a ton of these within the litrpg genre but I don't really like video game statboxes as a magic system. I am also aware of shadowrun.

Some examples of things I've read with the premise somewhere in them are:

Nowhere Stars (Magical girl inspired, in a sort of alt-history post apocalypse after essentially a eldritch invasion type thing starts happening).

Worm (superhero setting again, looming end of the world societal decline and granted superpowers)

Six Seconds of Moonlight (What got me to make this post, setting where everyone gets godly magical power for six seconds, leading to a collapsing society, magic, and transformations).

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It should have been a routine mission: stop the sale of a bio-organic weapon, round up the bad guys, and fly home before breakfast. Harmony Black and Jessie Temple are field agents for Vigilant Lock, a covert agency that defends humanity against supernatural threats; espionage, monsters, and mayhem are all in a day’s work. What they find this time, though, is a puzzle demanding an answer.

An old nemesis of the team has been murdered, and they didn’t pull the trigger.

Unsure if they’re dealing with a friend or a foe, the investigation leads Harmony and Jessie into a world of big money and bigger lies. The trail of clues leads from a shady tech startup in Silicon Valley to a “wellness retreat” for millionaires in the Catskill Mountains, a whirlwind tour through the lifestyles of the rich, famous, and dead.

As the ghosts of the team’s past come back to haunt them, a new enemy is rising in the shadows. An enemy who knows exactly who Harmony and Jessie are, what they’re capable of, and how to take them down. This mystery is a trap woven from lies and illusions, and it’s about to spring shut.

Hey there, all! Super excited to announce that Harmony and Jessie's new adventure is out now. Some long-dangling plot threads are coming to a head in this one, some old villains returning to the spotlight, and a new one emerging. (And given the ongoing homages to James Bond in this series, it's high time the heroines got their own SPECTRE to deal with. It all starts here...)

Audio is coming; moving to Rhode Island a few months ago wiped out my savings, but I talked with Susannah Jones, the narrator of the series, and she'll be recording the previous book (Never Send Roses) and this one back-to-back next month.

Hi I love UF books. But I can barely stand the romance.Looking for recommendations.

1. Prefer male MC, female MC usually implies romance.
2. Love Kate Daniels despite the romance.
3. Can't stand Dresden, urg!
4. Love the Iron Druid series.
5. Rather not reading noir, gore, zombies, necromancer.
6. The only vampires I can stand are the vampires in KD.
7. Love the first Hellequin books, but the later books are just too much!
8. Never clicked with Nate Temple.
9. Read the first few books of Alex Verus, not too impressed.
10. Edit: no YA please

Thanks

You pass a buiding and you play in your mind Hey this place is supernatural!

Or a park where you imagine fairies playing.

any superstition you made yourself?

Anyone here from Brazil too?

I’m looking for Urban Fantasy novels centered around a restaurant, coffeehouse, tea shop, or bar. I know these are popular with high fantasy and cozy fantasy (I know about Legends & Lattes), but I’m looking for Urban Fantasy.

So far, I’ve only found this beauty, Trinkets, Treasures, and Other Bloody Magic, which I greatly enjoyed. I’m hungry for more food-based Urban Fantasy!

I think I read it in high school, abt 8 years ago, about a Jewish immigrant to NYC in the 1890’s-1910’s. Magic is real but only practiced in the old world, as it’s illegal in America, the Jewish mafia is highly present in the story, I think there was also some stuff in there about the Rockefellers or the subways beginning to be built. I remember for sure that there was a member of the Jewish mob called nebbish, who had the magical ability to not be remembered or identified. If anyone could help me find this I’d be really grateful! Also down for recommendations of similar books :)

Decided to cut down to a minimalist graphic stylized cover here. Would appreciate any thoughts of if it would catch your attention.

Blurb:

Rosaldo has always been an outcast, told to take his pills and stay quiet about the daily events of magic he sees and even dreams of. But what if everything he’s been told is a lie, and everything he’s thought was a crazy hallucination was in fact, true?

Rosariel lives in a small town, and repeats to herself she's content living small. When she finds out her twin brother, Rosaldo, has gone missing, her life turns upside down. Rosariel searches for her brother, ending up in a journey she didn’t even know existed.

When the twins are reunited at the Order’s Academia for Mancers, dark secrets seek to control them, and the siblings don't know who to trust—except each other.

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So I’m on book five and just realized the author bin putting cameos of other book MCs. It took me till the Dresden for me to recognize what he was doing. After that I looked up something and found out a pair of characters in a previous book were also references (still not sure what book there from). In book five alone there were a few discretions that I assume were node to other books could anyone help me identify the book series there from I would love to add a few more to my reading list.

(Ps. Apologies if my English is poor I’m using these as a excuse to improve my English as a second language)

Hi all, looking for feedback on which cover to use for my latest novel! I'm using the second cover as my current one, but was wondering if the latest cover I designed would be better.

EDIT: Added a third updated on the first based on feedback.

The gist is if a Filipino Constantine meddled with the affairs of an occult totalitarian regime in order to avenge his murdered love.

The blurb is:

Revenge is something worth learning magic for.

Mancer—a modern-day practitioner of magic. Not that circus show schtick—I’m talking about the real thing.

My name is Aldo Ren, and I became a Mancer after I witnessed my parents eaten alive by a demon. Since that day, I’ve done things I’d rather not say, rather not remember even, to get to where I am: hiding from the Order, the totalitarian regime of the occult, as a rogue Mancer.

Until I find my girlfriend murdered as a Voodoo blood sacrifice. I’d forgotten the dark things I’d done, the things I was capable of. Whoever did it, they would find out soon enough, no matter the cost, no matter the foe, even if it meant taking on the Order…

even if there was Hell to pay.

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Hi all! I'm looking for urban fantasy recommendations :)

I've read the Dresden Files and I've been a huge fan. I really enjoyed the mid-series, where the urban detective thing is at its best. Though to be honest I felt as if Dresden Files hadn't utilized Chicago's history as a character that much, and doesn't play enough with the 'urban' part of urban fantasy (as in what makes a supernatural environment different in the city compared to anywhere else?)

I've also read the Rivers of London by Ben Aaronovitch. I really love the scenes with Nightingale and the main character using magic in a lab (I love lab scenes!) I also enjoy how London's historical landmarks are woven very deeply into the story. However, the prose and pacing aren't really for me, and I find the characters to be lacking.

I've read the first book of the Alex Verus series (Fated). I liked it too (especially when the main characters explain how some magic spells worked) and I relatively enjoyed the characters. But again, little on the urban aspect of urban fantasy (in exchange though I'm super thrilled that it explores mage society) The language and prose isn't like Dresden File's where it's more introspective. But overall Fated is a light and enjoyable read, and I'll continue this series again at some point.

I've tried starting the Iron Druid Chronicle. After a while the prose got too distracting and the pacing iffy. I liked how interwoven Celtic lore is with the plot though. I'm also looking into The Atrocity Archives and A Madness Of Angels (I heard this one weaves magic into the urban theme very well!)

Overall, you guys can guess that I really enjoy reading magic and experimenting with magic. I love wizards :) I'm a bit picky on the prose, but generally I love Dresden File's prose. But aside from that It'd be awesome if there are books that lean more into the urban aspect of urban fantasy. How does city magic work opposed to just magic? How does history and landmarks and culture play into it?

Obviously I'm the author of one of the series, but I have read all the books pictured and they are all great.

Looking for books where a character is genuinely a character was committed to asylum or psychiatric ward for any length of time for believing in, talking about, and/or trying to prove the existence of the magical side of the story's Masquerade.

Comedic or horror, I don't care. I just want to see someone really go through the ringer for trying to prove the existence of... ...

Heyo!

I'm a fugitive from reality, which is why I write books. Mine are mixed-genre, which is pretty much what it sounds like. Right now I'm into paranormal/urban fantasy/science fiction with romantic subplots. Oh, and the door's wide, wide open. Glad I found y'all!

Big Dresden Files fan, looking to read more urban fantasy!

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White Wolf is re-releasing the classic 1999-2004 books. Enjoy a lot of sexy vampires plotting against one another. Here's all the books they've gotten out so far. https://beforewegoblog.com/world-of-darkness-books-re-released-by-crossroad-press-september-2024/

I think they're about halfway done.

I get put off by so many of these series by the awful covers.

I'm trying to remember this bookseries. I know it was set in Central Park. It was a school magic and training for this catching business. The school was invisible. They were trying to catch runaway monsters that the real world did not know about. They would save them and keep them in like a mysterium or someplace where they could actually see all these different monsters. They were put individually into the special containers. Made me think of Ghostbusters a little bit. And then they were transported back to this place where they would put them into that building. I think if I remember right the different types of monsters were put in areas based on how dangerous they were in this building. Any ideas? Thank you so much if you remember or know this book series.

Hi, does anybody have an update or information on what he's up to, as there has been no information since his last book "own ghost story"