Just one paranormal romance or urban fantasy....

[nancylebov]

One of my friends has asked which PR or UF he should read if he's just going to read one.

I'm so overloaded on the genre that I don't have a recommendation, so I'm asking you guys.

Please let me know why you're recommending a book-- your favorite? Most typical? Acclaimed as best? Other?

If you pick up this question to ask in your own lj, could you let me know?

Comments

[bradhicks.livejournal.com]

Yeah, most recently Stealing the Elf-King's Roses, which basically totally didn't work for me. Loved Book of Night with Moon, less crazy about the sequel; thought So You Want to Be a Wizard was okay, even less happy with its sequels. To my taste, none of them can hold a candle, either in how they handle Faerie nor in how they handle urban reality, to War for the Oaks.

I do go back to the Borderlands anthologies from time to time. I liked the inter-textual "notes" even more than I liked the stories in Windling's The Essential Bordertown anthology.