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Laura's Top 10 Urban Fantasy Series



LAURA'S TOP 10 URBAN FANTASY SERIES

1

Anita Blake - Laurell K Hamilton

Anita has to be one of the first and ultimate heroines of urban fantasy. The early books are just awesome. I love the fact she is as tough as nails and the books combine horror with gritty action.


2

Mercy Thompson - Patricia Briggs

Mercy is a shapeshifting coyote and VW mechanic, who has the uncanny ability to get herself into trouble. The first few books are compulsive reading, gritty and at the centre have a fantastic love story.


3

Women of the Otherworld - Kelley Armstrong

'Bitten' is the first urban fantasy novel I ever read and opened my eyes to fantastic new worlds. I read it in a day and rushed out to buy the sequel 'Stolen' straight away. My favourite novels of this series has to be the ones on Elena and the werewolf pack, followed closely by Paige the witch.


4

Night Huntress - Jeaniene Frost

There isn't very much I can say here other than Kat and Bones! It's the relationship between these two characters that makes these books, as full of humour as it is with sizzling chemistry and bloody battle scenes.


5

Kate Daniels - Ilona Andrews

First of all Kate has a wicked sword! Second, welcome to Atlanta, a place that is at one time dominated by magic and the next by technology, giving us an absorbing new world to suck our imaginations into. Then there's the very sexy Beast Lord, Curran. But perhaps the best part of these novels is Kate herself, a gutsy, tough heroine - just the way I like them!


6

Fever - Karen Marie Moning

Karen Marie Moning has created a vivid and unique world in her Fever series. With unbearable cliffhangers at the end of each book. It will take you to the depths of despair until you miss hours of sleep in your desperation to reach its conclusion.


7

Sookie Stackhouse - Charlaine Harris

The books that gave us the TV series 'True Blood'. I adore the innocence and wholesomeness of Sookie combined with the darkness of the vampire world she gets sucked into. Small town America has never been so fascinatingly macabre.


8

Shifters - Rachel Vincent

Faythe is a character that goes on an immense journey throughout this series. A werecat surviving in a world where women are scarce are expected to marry and bear children she is fighting for independence. And I defy you not to at least sniffle at the unbearable love triangle.


9

Downside Ghosts - Stacia Kane

Chess is an incredibly different character, a drug addict that borders two worlds the respectable world of the church, and the underground world of violence, drug dealers and prostitutes of the downside. This series also has the most unusual hero, there are very few writers brave enough who write an ugly one and make it work.


10

The Hollows - Kim Harrison

Meet Rachel Morgan, witch and runner for the Inderland Services until she finds herself unscrupulously fired. Starting up her own business with living vampire Ivy, Rachel is slightly calamitous. She also must have the best sidekick in urban fantasy in the shape of Jenks the pixie, guaranteed to make you laugh out loud.

Some other series that did not quite make my top ten, but are still worthy of a special mention:

Kitty Norville - Carrie Vaughn
Meredith Gentry - Laurell K Hamilton
Weather Warden - Rachel Caine
Dark Swan - Richelle Mead
Dante Valentine - Lilith Saintcrow
Signs of the Zodiac - Vicki Pettersson

15 comments:

James R. Tuck Dark Urban Fantasy Author said...

I totally love most of these series! And I agree with the number 1 slot. :)

Hannah said...

Great choices! These are either waiting to be read or very very high on my wishlist. :D
And thanks for recommending Bitten, I adoored it! Waiting to find time to read Stolen and hopefully get my hands on Bitten and the rest. Bitten was a library borrow, and I'm going to want to reread that. The only other urban fantasies I've read have been the first 3 Sookie books, Working Stiff and I'm starting on Magic to the Bone now which is really really good so far.

Amy said...

Great list!

Susan said...

I love Patricia Brigg's Mercy Thompson series! So very very good. I've just picked up Magic Bites, the first book in that series. I've been looking at Dead Witch Walking for some time now. I read the first Sookie Stackhouse book, and enjoyed it. What are the Fever books about? I haven't heard about them. I have book 1 of the Weather Warden series too, though I haven't read it yet.

This is quite a list you have here! What about Laura Ann Gilman's retriever series, do you enjoy that?

Blodeuedd said...

Awesome books :) And I really must try the Kim H ones

Dazzling Mage said...

I'm reading one, and I have 5 series waiting for me to start reading them. *sigh*

Anyway, thank you for listing the great among UF! =D

Angie said...

All of these are on my to-read, except Sookie, since I've already read 1-9 and will be picking up 10 and 11 soon. :)

I'm a bit intimidated by Anita Blake since there's sooooo many books! But one day I'll get to it. :P

Angie @ Pinkindle Reads & Reviews

Jessica Jillings said...

Great list, these are high up on my TBR list!

Jessica from Booked Up!
http://www.bookedupbloggers.blogspot.com/

:) xxx

ilona said...

I love most of the top ten (the others I haven't had a chance to read yet :D) but I noticed that you didn't mention Patricia Briggs' Alpha and Omega series. If you ever get the chance you really should read it - it's as well written as Mercy and is a spin off from that series :D

My keeper shelf said...

Great list, I love 9 of your choices and that's only because I haven't read the Sookie books (despite having every single one of them on my shelf!).

Laura said...

@James thanks! Can't beat a bit of Anita. I've just started one of your books actually :)

@Hannah I'm so glad you enjoyed Bitten! I've read some of the Magic to the books also

@Amy thanks :)

@Susan of the fever books are goooood! You should check them out :) I've reviewed the last three on here of you want to read a review. I've not heard of the Laura Ann Gilman books but I'm going to look them up now!

@Blodeuedd thanks :) the Kim H ones are definitely worth reading

@Dazzling Mage by Tbr list is like that too! Glad you liked the list

@Angie the first Anita books are better than the rest maybe start with the first couple?

@Jessica thanks!

@Ilona I have read the alpha & omega books, although I think they are a bit more paranormal romance and I have to say I think I prefer the Mercy books

@My Keeper Shelf you should start the Sookie books & join our read-a-long :)

Alyssa Kirk said...

There are several I need to check out. While they lost me on the later ones, I'm a huge fan of Sookie and Anita's first books!

Mierke said...

Great list! While I'm not in love with the Anita Blake series, I like the Sookie Stackhouse series and absolutely adore The Hollows and the Night Huntress series. A lot of the others are on my TBR pile.

I'd never heard of the Downside Ghosts' series - it sounds really interesting!

Juliette said...

Great list !! I love all your choices - except Fever because I haven't read it yet :)

PS: If I may correct you - it's Cat (not Kat) ;)

Laura said...

@Alyssa do the Sookie books lose it a bit towards the end of the series then? I hope not as I enjoy them a lot

@Mierke oh you must check out th Downside books, they're very good!

@Juliette you're completely right it is Cat and not Kat, brain melt moment there. Thanks for spotting that one :) The Fever books are fab & I'd highly recommend them.

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