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After finishing Jim Butcher's latest Dresden Files book (Cold Days) last December, I got a hankering for some more urban fantasy, so over the last six months I've read: - All of Neil Gaiman's novels, all very good stuff. - The first (and now only, it seems) three books of the Twenty Palaces series by Harry Connolly; pretty dark and depressing, but an interesting read. Shame the publisher dropped it. - The first three Rivers of London books by Ben Aaronovitch; fun and very British. - The first five Iron Druid Chronicles by Kevin Hearne; Rather derivative (kind of like a Dresden-Light), but entertaining. - The five Felix Castor books by Mike Carey; very, very good. Probably my favorite of all the series here. - The three Alex Verus books by Benedict Jacka; also good stuff. - The seven Mercy Thompson books by Patricia Briggs; pretty good. - The seven Greywalker books by Kat Richardson; the first book or two were a little shaky, but the series got pretty good after that. - The four Monster Hunter International books by Larry Correia. Unapologetic cheesy and terrible pulp, but somehow they were still fun. - The first book of Tad Williams' new Bobby Dollar series. It's Tad Williams writing noir about angels; what more can you say? And right now in my queue to be read I've got: - The Watch books by Sergei Lukyanenko. Probably going to start on these next. - The Sandman Slim books by Richard Kadrey; I've heard good things about these, but present-tense writing annoys me. Hopefully they're worth it. - I've got some more of Patricia Briggs' novels lying around, I forget exactly what now. I think a couple are related to the Mercy Thompson books and a couple are some standalone stories. Those won't last me very long, though. So, while I'm waiting for a bunch of these folks to finish their next installments, what else is good in the urban fantasy world (that isn't a thinly disguised romance or some teenager sparkly vampire bullshit)?
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