![]() While there are mystery novels that are set in such historical locales, like Steven Saylor’s Roma Sub Rosa series, those novels have tended to focus primarily on solving cases without the interference of supernatural entities. In this new variant, the action takes place not in a contemporary city, but in the past: Imperial Rome, for instance, or eleventh-century Japan. ![]() ![]() In recent years, however, I’ve noticed a new variant on the urban fantasy novel. When I discovered the urban fantasy genre of novels when I was a teenager with Harry Potter (which isn’t strictly urban fantasy, but comes pretty close), I started trying to read as much as I could in the genre, discovering some winning series that I try to keep up with today, and others which I’ve given up on entirely or never even so much as tried to read. ![]() As a little girl I sometimes wondered what it would be like if the monsters and gods I read about in books actually walked amongst us – or maybe they did, and were just hiding themselves. ![]()
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