10 Fresh Urban Fantasy Books and Series

Witches are few and far between within the UK, which is why Mika Moon and her group of witches meet solely so usually — security is the precedence, and too many witches in a single place have a tendency to attract consideration. Even although Mika is used to the loneliness, an enormous a part of her rejects it, and she posts movies on a YouTube-like web site the place she shares magic ideas, pretending to be a witch. But somebody sees her for what she actually is and invitations her to a home out in the midst of nowhere to tutor three younger witches into their magic. Somehow, she agrees and finds with the inhabitants of the home — particularly a grumpy librarian — a household like none she’s ever skilled. But the transition from being a loner orphan witch to a beloved one isn’t simple, and she’ll need to make some adjustments to regulate.

Mandanna additionally has A Witch’s Guide to Magical Innkeeping, which, although it shares some similarities with The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches, isn’t listed as a follow-up.

In Demons of Good and Evil, the seventeenth in The Hollows collection, witch-born demon Rachel Morgan has her work minimize out for her because the protector of the paranormal residents of Cincinnati. She feels this particularly nicely as soon as she’s framed for homicide and the vampire leaders in DC become involved. Now Rachel and her associates are in hiding, and to make it out alive, she’ll must make an unsavory deal.

To begin at the start, choose up Dead Witch Walking.

This is the primary in McGuire’s bestselling and award-nominated InCryptid collection. It follows Verity Price, who’s a part of a household that protects cryptids from people and vice versa. She’s not likely into the household enterprise, regardless of her cryptologist coaching, as a substitute choosing a lifetime of skilled ballroom dancing. But then the Price household’s opps — the Covenant of St. George — begin sending monsters her means, and now she’s acquired to take care of a Covenant boy, unusual lizard males, and rumors of a dragon beneath town.

The thirteenth on this collection, Aftermarket Afterlife, simply got here out on March fifth.

This award-nominated collection has all of the blood feuds, magic, and martial arts you might hope for. In it, the Green Bone clans used to guard the island Kekon and its priceless and uncommon magical jade. The Kaul household — a criminal offense syndicate — is a type of households, and as soon as the tensions get too excessive between them and their best rivals, there’s open violence within the streets.

Jade City is the primary e-book.

Lobizona is the primary of the Wolves of No World trilogy and follows Manuela “Manu” Azul, who resides as an undocumented immigrant in Miami, Florida, to evade her father’s Argentine crime household. But then her adoptive grandmother is attacked and her mom is arrested by ICE, which lastly permits her to maneuver freely on this planet. As she begins to analyze her previous, she learns of a secret world filled with Argentine folklore and how, for some households, each seventh daughter is born a bruja, and each seventh son a lobizón (or werewolf).

Here, Cristina and Clement Trudeau, two 16-year-old twins, are descendants of a robust magical household in New Orleans. They was once shut, however now they discover their household in shambles: the gifted Cristina has given up her magic due to a tragedy, their father is useless, their mom is cursed, and Clement is attempting to fill an emotional void with random hookups. But then they notice somebody is after their household, and that it has one thing to do with a girl who was killed 30 years in the past. If they’ll lastly come collectively, they’ll save their household, and New Orleans from having one other bloodbath.

There’s a second e-book (Blood Justice) that’s because of come out on April twenty third this 12 months, but it surely’s not clear if the 2 books can be a duology or a part of a collection.

This city fantasy collection additionally counts as an Arthurian retelling. In it, 16-year-old Bree Matthews desires to get away from house after her mom dies in an accident, and UNC-Chapell Hill’s residential program for vivid excessive schoolers offers the right alternative to do exactly that. But then she sees a magical assault on her first night time there, which results in her studying of a secret society full of individuals referred to as Legendbord, who’re descendants of King Arthur’s knights. After her personal magic is unlocked and she learns that there was magic concerned together with her mom’s dying, she infiltrates the society to search out out extra. Thing is, there’s a warfare coming, and she’ll need to resolve whose aspect she’s on and find out how to use her energy.

So far, there are two books out on this collection, which follows 18-year-old Gu Miyoung, who has a secret: she’s a nine-tailed fox demon (gumiho) who eats males’s power to outlive. With all of the evil males on this planet — and folks’s lack of perception in folklore as of late — searching is made tremendous simple within the massive metropolis of Seoul, Korea. But possibly she had life too simple, as a result of she decides to save lots of a human boy from a goblin within the forest someday, and it makes her lose her fox bead, aka, her gumiho soul. As she and the boy she saved, Jihoon, develop nearer, she’ll have to select between him or having her immortal soul again.