I’m so tired of pecking orders in packs and covens or even the special supernatural FBI. Please no more mysterious, dark handsome men – be they vampires or werewolves or something else entirely. I’m just not into your typical hot and sexy, yet snarky narrator girl who can kick ass despite weighing 45 kg. I don’t read much urban fantasy and I’m probably doing the subgenre very wrong with my prejudices but every time I seem to pick up an UF book, all the tropes are there, the plot feels predictable, and I feel all the more justified in my reasons for avoiding books of that kind.
As such a rarity, she is charged with keeping the peace between both races, and ensuring the Weyrd remain hidden from us.īut now Sirens are dying, illegal wine made from the tears of human children is for sale – and in the hands of those Weyrd who hold with the old ways – and someone has released an unknown and terrifyingly destructive force on the streets of Brisbane.Īnd Verity must investigate – or risk ancient forces carving our world apart. The daughter of one human and one Weyrd parent, she has very little power herself, but does claim unusual strength – and the ability to walk between us and the other – as a couple of her talents. Verity Fassbinder has her feet in two worlds. I’ll just never love Urban Fantasy with all its tropes and clichés as much as I do other subgenres.įirst sentence: The ribbon was judging me, I knew it. It did have original ideas and was a fun read. Despite the underlying mythology, I found this to be a bit too much like my generic idea of an Urban Fantasy.
But a great writer is a great writer and can dabble in many genres. I said I’d read anything the wonderful Angela Slatter writes and she warned me herself on Twitter that this was urban fantasy and thus nothing like her fairytale-esque story collections.
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