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What’s your favorite Urban Fantasy book published this year? How about your favorite ever?

Favorite Book Ever

Now, this is a growing genre, so it’s hard to pick a favorite. So later on, I’ll post subgenres—like witches, vampires, and other sub-categories that are technically urban fantasy.

I’m a huge Neil Gaiman fan. Of his work, I think Neverwhere is my favorite of his Urban Fantasy novels. Here’s the book description (from Amazon):

Richard Mayhew is a young man with a good heart and an ordinarylife, which is changed forever when he stops to help a girl he finds bleeding on a London sidewalk. His small act of kindness propels him into a world he never dreamed existed. There are people who fall through the cracks, and Richard has become one of them. And he must learn to survive in this city of shadows and darkness, monsters and saints, murderers and angels, if he is ever to return to the London that he knew.

The only hiccup I had about this book was that Gaiman has a thing about adding in dreams that give his main characters important detail or foreshadowing. He does it in American Gods, too. And I guess that’s all right.

The rest of the book was a thrill ride. I loved finding out about this underworld and how, if you get sucked into it, you’re essentially erased from the memories of everyone in your old life. The creatures, magical beings, and world were all painted with vivid detail, and I lost myself to the story. I feel pretty confident that most Urban Fantasy lovers will like this.

Fun story—this book is actually a novelization of a British TV series. Gaiman was commissioned to write it, and I think he did a pretty good job! How about you?

Favorite Book This Year

For now, I want to talk about Four in the Morning. This was one of those books that hooks you from the start and uses a murder mystery undercurrent to pull you through any slower parts. The twists were interesting, the ending made me lean into the book, and the last line nearly made me gasp on the train. It’s good. Here’s my review, or you can check out the book description for yourself (from Amazon):

Kathleen Hayson thinks her biggest problem is her mother. The only runner up—her mouth. With a wit sharper than her mother’s perfectly manicured nails, her clever remarks create more problems than they solve. But it’s not her clever remarks landing her knee-deep in trouble. This time, Josh Colby is to blame. Kathleen’s former childhood friend has become the school’s most stuck up jerk. Before, she’d have told him to piss off and write his own stupid letter to the town slut/minister’s daughter. Now Kathleen’s escalating problems at home force her to reevaluate how flexible her principles are. She agrees to write the controversial letter Josh has requested. Enter Rigel, a smartass magical creature who invades her room one night, promises he has come to help her. When a boy Kathleen hates turns up dead and her mother goes missing, the letter becomes a key piece of police evidence – implicating Kathleen. As she fights her way out of a web of lies, the trust she has in those closest to her shatters. In the end, she’s pushed to a terrible choice: who lives, and who else dies.

So clue the rest of us in. What’s your favorite Urban Fantasy book?

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