I'm making my way through the Mortal Instruments series (I've read 3 of the 6 books) and I'm hoping to find something similar, but perhaps more substantial, if that makes sense.
I love the aspect of "fantastical beings live among us" and I would like to find a book or series either with a more curious protagonist who wants to learn about the cultures (for lack of a better term) of these beings, and/or one wherein they overlap and interact more.
(I recognize that I could potentially get this from the series I'm currently reading, but I don't have high hopes, so I'm looking elsewhere.)
by Clarice_M_Starling
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Dresden files counts as urban but it’s pretty adulty with sexual scenes and a ton of books
I’m finished book 1 it’s pretty good
Ilona Andrews Innkeeper Chronicles –A magic Inn, space werewolves and vampires, a lot of really unique aliens, mystery, romance, action, a fun and humorous series
Seanan McGuire’s *Incryptid* series is about a family of cryptozoologists trying to protect cryptids from humans and vice versa, and learning about the cultures of those nonhumans that have them.
Patricia Briggs is a wonderful author. She has a series about Mercy, who is a shapeshifting Coyote who marries an alpha werewolf. The Fae are involved in most books as well as vampires. It’s all set in modern day Portland.
Differently Morphus and Existentially Challenged by Yahtzee Croshaw. Governmental agency involved in the regulation of magic and extra dimensional beings. If you want a curious MC, then you will love Allison.
Neil Gaiman’s Neverwhere is legit great, despite the fact that he’s clearly been a creep in his personal life. If you’re a death-of-the-author reader, go for it, just maybe buy it used or borrow from the library.
The Green Man series by Juliet McKenna.
The Twenty Sided Sorceress series by Annie Bellet.
My favorite urban fantasy is the Mercy Thompson series by Patricia Briggs. If you’ve watched True Blood or read the books it was based on, the Mercy books have all the same elements (vampires, witches, weres, shifters, fae) but I think they are better written. Some of my other favorites are the Hollows series by Kim Harrison and Rivers of London by Ben Aaronovitch.
I like a lot of the ones already listed here and wanted to also add Kelley Armstrong’s Women of the Other World Series – starts with Bitten