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How is the Craft Sequence Urban fantasy? Not nitpicking its inclusion in the thread, just curious. Its seems straight fantasy?
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torgeaux posted:How is the Craft Sequence Urban fantasy? Not nitpicking its inclusion in the thread, just curious. Its seems straight fantasy? It takes place in a fantasy world but it’s about lawyers and CEOs and hostile mergers in cities. It’s all just done in a fantasy world with magic.
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Mar 11, 2023 17:40
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torgeaux posted:How is the Craft Sequence Urban fantasy? Not nitpicking its inclusion in the thread, just curious. Its seems straight fantasy? relatively "modern" setting with cities and economics etc is one definition also, some of the characters have ethnicities
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Mar 11, 2023 17:55
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Yeah, so not urban fantasy as I am looking for it, which is what I thought. I do like straight fantasy, too, so I'm going to take a shot at the first (published) book, the series seems well liked.
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Mar 11, 2023 18:19
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Think of it as fantasy urban instead of urban fantasy. It takes the mundane activities we know and drops them into a fantastical setting instead of taking fantastical elements and dropping them in the world we know
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Mar 11, 2023 19:48
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Lumbermouth posted:If you’re going to read Sandman Slim, I highly recommend the audiobooks by Macleod Andrews. His narration sands some of the edge off. Yes these audio books are much better. I think the series peeks some where between books 3 and 5 I don’t know exactly remember.
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Mar 11, 2023 20:09
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Souls are their money and their magic is litigating necromantic contracts.
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Mar 13, 2023 03:31
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That's just taking modern soul sucking capitalism and making it literal.
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Mar 13, 2023 07:10
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And also vampire capitalism right out of Marx, though I don't recall any zombies.
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Mar 13, 2023 08:06
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Been doing a bit of catching up with Daniel Faust; I had read the first 3 books and the first Harmony Black one and just finished up books 4-5. Do I "need" to read the rest of the Harmony Black books to get the most of what this seems to be setting up? I really enjoy the Faust books but kinda hated the Black one. I seem to recall at least another one of Schaefer's series ties into the Faust "universe" somehow? (Book 5 theory) unless I'm misremembering it sounded like a previous cycle of the whole Paladin/Thief/Enemy tarot thing The Smile is going on about? I may be way off mark though 
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Mar 27, 2023 05:38
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Edmond Dantes posted:. You don't absolutely have to, but the plots are connected. Also the Black books improve dramatically with the second one. Personally by the third book I officially cared more about them than the main series. Schaefer wrote another four book series called the Revanche Cycle which is set in another world but becomes relevant with a trilogy set after the 4th Black and I forget which Faust book that ties all three series together. You don't absolutely have to read them to follow it, but they're excellent in their own right and are background for the trilogy which is to date some of Schaefer's best work Nickaroni fucked around with this message at 09:32 on Mar 27, 2023 |
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Mar 27, 2023 09:12
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Yeah, I was taking a look at an order guide and looks like Wisdom’s Grave takes places between... Faust 8 and Black 5? Am I reading this right? I'll give the second Black a try next then, since it seems to take place right after Killing Floor Blues. Cheers! Edmond Dantes fucked around with this message at 09:38 on Mar 27, 2023 |
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Mar 27, 2023 09:26
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Edmond Dantes posted:Do I "need" to read the rest of the Harmony Black books to get the most of what this seems to be setting up? I really enjoy the Faust books but kinda hated the Black one. If I recall correctly, Schaefer had a different publisher at the beginning of the series and they gave her a lot of really bad feedback and had requirements for the books that were bad. Such as Harmony's loving terrible love interest in the first book. Once Schaefer moved away from that publisher, everything improved greatly. The last two books have been very good. Harmony's appearances in Wisdom's Grave and the latest Faust book were also good.
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Mar 31, 2023 03:37
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She's also said that a significant number of readers liked the first book the most and felt the series went downhill from there. For some reason.
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Mar 31, 2023 03:49
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I'm in that club - liked the first two Harmony books but after that it felt she's ran out of interesting story ideas. The love interest certainly isn't missed, though.
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Mar 31, 2023 10:05
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Very happy that Mike Carey is back with a Felix Castor novella after like 15 years, hopefully there's more coming: https://subterraneanpress.com/newsannouncing-the-ghost-in-bone-by-mike-carey/
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Apr 8, 2023 07:40
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Scorchy posted:Very happy that Mike Carey is back with a Felix Castor novella after like 15 years, hopefully there's more coming: https://subterraneanpress.com/newsannouncing-the-ghost-in-bone-by-mike-carey/ Oh what! Awesome!
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Apr 8, 2023 15:29
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I hope this becomes available in a more affordable format as well. Those books were all very enjoyable.
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Apr 10, 2023 11:47
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DreamingofRoses posted:I just started on the InCryptid audiobooks. I’m like a third of the way into the first one and I adore the mice. I can’t believe it took me this long to start InCryptid, but I’m now six books in and I love them. They’re dumb and compelling at the same time. I can’t explain it. Why are there so many dance sequences and why do they work? Every Price family member is like three traits in a trench coat, but somehow I love them? The antagonist faction is somehow implacable and incompetent at the same time, but yet I’m always worried about them? Everyone is hot af and horny af, but somehow it’s never skeevy? Also the mice are the absolute best thing. I have no question here. They just own.
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May 5, 2023 23:13
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Hail! It's just full of charm. I'm not super-sold on the cuckoo math cousin as a protagonist, but I haven't finished her arc yet. Edit: for whatever reason, I don't like the Mira Grant books, and I'm usually all about zombies and...whatever you call the parasite things.
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May 5, 2023 23:27
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ConfusedUs posted:I can’t believe it took me this long to start InCryptid, but I’m now six books in and I love them. My one complaint is that the books are horribly straight, it gets a little better towards the end, but the only hetero relationship I was at all invested in was Sara and Artie. I loving love the mice.
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May 6, 2023 00:07
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Beachcomber posted:Hail! I enjoyed the NewsFeed series, but haven't been able to get into any of her other stories.
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May 6, 2023 02:09
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Soonmot posted:My one complaint is that the books are horribly straight, it gets a little better towards the end, but the only hetero relationship I was at all invested in was Sara and Artie. I actually love Dominic as a love interest because he’s low key hilarious with his super serious vibe. He’s like that paladin from the recent D&D movie
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May 6, 2023 02:14
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ConfusedUs posted:I actually love Dominic as a love interest because he’s low key hilarious with his super serious vibe. He’s like that paladin from the recent D&D movie oh, I LIKE all the characters, I just have a very low tolerance for romance plots, which sinks to rockbottom with hetero romances. Also, it's annoying to fast forward sex scenes when I'm falling asleep to an audiobook.
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May 6, 2023 02:30
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Seanan McGuire does have a more YA series that is more LGBTQ friendly? Wayward Children. It's more fantasy but worth a try? Off the top of my head one protagonist is asexual and one is trans
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May 6, 2023 11:51
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I was reminded that the denizens of this thread might find this of interest. My UF novel All In is up on Booksirens as an eARC. There's no romance other than a bit mentioned incidentally in the backstory and one vampire related bedroom scene. There is a lot of swearing. And violence. While the protagonist is het, a good chunk of the secondary characters are not. Link: https://booksirens.com/book/YABWTSQ/BDS2N65 The full blurb is thus: What dies in Vegas, stays in Vegas. Vampire playboy Eddy Fry has spent years living it up, so to speak, in Las Vegas. In all those decades, not once has he met another of his kind. Until tonight. Eddy learns that, not only are there other vampires out there, the one after him is older and much more powerful than he is. As if that wasn't bad enough, she’s got a small army of supernatural creatures at her beck and call. In a flash, she’s muscled him out of the casino he calls home and left him with an offer he can’t refuse. Out-gunned and out of his depth, Eddy will need to find his own allies, allies who know their way around this whacked-out supernatural world he’s been ignoring for so long. Otherwise, he might just see his first sunrise in years…
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May 17, 2023 19:49
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immoral_ posted:I enjoyed the NewsFeed series, but haven't been able to get into any of her other stories. Have you tried Into the Rolling Deep and Into the Drowning Deep? I read Drowning first without realizing it was a sequel and thought it stood by itself very well. I like the Newsflesh stuff, but I thought this was a bit better crafted.
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May 17, 2023 23:53
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ConfusedUs posted:I can’t believe it took me this long to start InCryptid, but I’m now six books in and I love them. I feel they reach peak InCryptid when you get to Alice's books but it's a good time until then.
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May 18, 2023 06:07
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CaptainCrunch posted:I was reminded that the denizens of this thread might find this of interest. My UF novel All In is up on Booksirens as an eARC. Downloaded and will read next
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May 18, 2023 09:03
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InCryptid: I liked the prequel stories much more than the main series, which I quit after 5 or 6 books. The Aeslin mice rule.
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May 18, 2023 10:17
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ClydeFrog posted:Downloaded and will read next That's awesome! Thank you.
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May 18, 2023 16:26
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just finished the Fred the Vampire Accountant series and jesus christ. so good. I crave more chill UF or "happy ending" fantasy scifi in general. any recs? I've read most of the commonly touted stuff, like Becky Chambers and the like.
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May 22, 2023 03:00
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tokenbrownguy posted:just finished the Fred the Vampire Accountant series and jesus christ. so good. You read Legends and Lattes? That should scratch a little bit of your itch.
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May 22, 2023 11:15
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Darth Walrus posted:You read Legends and Lattes? That should scratch a little bit of your itch. That's been sitting in my audible recommended feed. I'm guessing it's good?
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May 22, 2023 13:23
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Soonmot posted:That's been sitting in my audible recommended feed. I'm guessing it's good? Certainly the sort of light, pleasant read it sounds like tokenbrownguy is hungering for.
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May 22, 2023 13:58
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tokenbrownguy posted:just finished the Fred the Vampire Accountant series and jesus christ. so good. I bounced hard off the initial incident in book one. Does it get better? The whole "secret group but I'll reveal them immediately" thing was so bad.
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May 22, 2023 14:10
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torgeaux posted:I bounced hard off the initial incident in book one. Does it get better? The whole "secret group but I'll reveal them immediately" thing was so bad. I guess that depends on how you feel about were-horses, mages tripping on their own magical acid supply, honey trap vampires, farming satyrs and sundry other things that sound weird but are presented in perfectly reasonable situations. Also, Fred is just a genuinely nice person. And it's fun to read about the things that trip him up in what is essentially a new world to him.
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May 22, 2023 15:41
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immoral_ posted:I guess that depends on how you feel about were-horses, mages tripping on their own magical acid supply, honey trap vampires, farming satyrs and sundry other things that sound weird but are presented in perfectly reasonable situations. Fred is an attractive protagonist. I was hoping for more mundane approach than the high school reunion thing which was absurd in a bad way for me. I'll pick it back up and get through that bit.
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May 22, 2023 18:08
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Yeah, the reunion was pretty weak, but it was also merely an introduction to the setting. Honestly one of the things I like most about the Fred series is not everything happens all at once. There's usually a few weeks to a few months between "episodes" so it doesn't feel like some other UF series.
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What's the power level progression like?
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