Urban Fantasy

Urban fantasy is a subgenre of fantasy in which the narrative uses supernatural elements in a 19th-century to 21st-century (or equivalent) urban society. It usually takes place in the present day (or the equivalent of the "present day").

Works of urban fantasy may be set in an approximation of our world in which fantastic exists secretly or in a world (such as an alternative history) in which it occurs openly, or some combination of the above. Elements such as magic, paranormal beings, other worlds and so on, may exist here. Common themes include coexistence or conflict between humans and other
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Dark Secrets (The Black Lantern, #1)
Dales of the Unexpected (DI Adams, #5)
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Alchemy of Secrets (Alchemy of Secrets, #1)
He Who Fights with Monsters 5 (He Who Fights with Monsters, #5)
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Vale of Dreams (Fey Academy for Spies, #2)
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The Sun and the Star (The Nico di Angelo Adventures, #1)
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Wrath of the Triple Goddess (Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Senior Year Adventures, #2)
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