There are multiple types of paranormal romance -- two or three broad categories. There are even more types of urban fantasy.
I haven't read too many PR books so don't have much info to base an opinion on there.
For UF it can depend on what sort of book the reader likes *without* the fantasy element. Seanan McGuire's October Daye series, already mentioned, is great for the noir side of things. Rosemary and Rue, the first Toby book, is a good hard-boiled detective story mixed in with the urban fantasy elements: it never occurred to me until this book how well suited the two genres are for each other. The second book, A Local Habitation, brings a noir action-adventure story into the setting and works just as well.
I might get pillaged for suggesting some of the Mercedes Lackey/Larry Dixon "Diana Tregarde / SERRAted Edge / Eric Banyon" universe series (by multiple authors, not just ML and LD) but I enjoyed many of them. (Born to Run was particularly liked by my friends who are serious auto racing fans.) If one's going to read only one UF book, though, I would go with McGuire or Charles de Lint (as also suggested above).
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Date: 2010-05-18 09:21 pm (UTC)I haven't read too many PR books so don't have much info to base an opinion on there.
For UF it can depend on what sort of book the reader likes *without* the fantasy element. Seanan McGuire's October Daye series, already mentioned, is great for the noir side of things. Rosemary and Rue, the first Toby book, is a good hard-boiled detective story mixed in with the urban fantasy elements: it never occurred to me until this book how well suited the two genres are for each other. The second book, A Local Habitation, brings a noir action-adventure story into the setting and works just as well.
I might get pillaged for suggesting some of the Mercedes Lackey/Larry Dixon "Diana Tregarde / SERRAted Edge / Eric Banyon" universe series (by multiple authors, not just ML and LD) but I enjoyed many of them. (Born to Run was particularly liked by my friends who are serious auto racing fans.) If one's going to read only one UF book, though, I would go with McGuire or Charles de Lint (as also suggested above).