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I know a lot of you are A) Librarians or B) Have children and C) Those children, unlike the rest of us, presumably, can read. Or you can read them, I didn’t read these until high school, because I had never heard of them before then! I read them throughout the year, but hey, it’s your precious creepy, fall season, which means I should have posted this 3 weeks ago.
Oops. Anyway.
There will be links to them, but they are not affiliate links, just places where I ripped some of the descriptions. There’s four series, all middle grade to young adult.
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It is written somewhat simply, but it’s by no means bad.
OP’s Notes: I actually read the spinoff series, The Saga of Larten Crepsley, before any of these books. The writing there is much improved (and also the one middle grade series of his that’s not written in first person), but the two are separated by about 10 years or so, so progress and improvement were inevitable. It doesn’t really matter which you read first.
Favorite Book: “Trials of Death”, “Hunters of the Dusk”
The series was also quite popular in Japan – So there’s also a manga of all 12 books, if that’s your style. Unfortunately, the latter 2 are quite expensive as physical books. As I search on Amazon, they’re quite inexpensive as digital manga. Ooh, I can finally finish the last 2!
There was also a movie, that some people like. Statistically, I suppose someone had to. I don’t know where you can stream it, but you can.
It’s good for middle grade readers who want something slightly edgier that’s not super gory…unlike..
The world is vicious.
Magic is possible.
Demons are real.
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OP Note: This is probably the series I revisit the least, but it still is very entertaining. I feel there are a lot of cool ideas that don’t have the space to truly be delved deep into. I mean, this series has demons, magicians, werewolves,and more…I would 100% read a Shan series about only one or two of these concepts.
Despite that, out of the 3 protagonists, Grubbs is probably my favorite out of all of his series. I love the juxtaposition of a kid who is clearly struggling with the possibility of dating his best friend’s sister while fighting demons and casting spells.
You could skip the first 4 books and read (Well, the first half of) my favorite one, “Blood Beast”, for a perfect example of what I’m talking about. (I saw the first half because the second half would depend on you reading the 3rd book, “Slawter”)
Favorite Book: “Blood Beast”
You may be thinking “Vampires, Werewolves, where are the zombies at?”
Well….
And then the zombie apocalypse happens, society collapses, and conspiracies are revealed.
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OP Note: And here’s my favorite of his series. “But Sandy”, you say, “How is your favorite series about a racist white girl?” Because she improves and learns after turning into a living undead girl because of a vaccine she got when she was younger.
Honestly, the first itme I saw the book in the store, I opened it to a random page, read a section where her father was being racist, and said “You know what, maybe this isn’t for me.” and didn’t read more for a few months until I tried again.
There’s conspiracies, rich bastards, serial killers, gladiator matches, clowns, and it veers a little into Twilight territory.
You may have been able to tell that it shares a fair amount of similiarites with….the past 2 years, but no, it came out around 2015.
Favorite Book: “Zom-B Gladiator”, “Zom-B Mission”, “Zom-B Clans”, “Zom-B Family” (Books 6-9), “Zom-B Goddess” (12)
Bookshop Link (There are also beautiful covers in the UK, but I’m in the US, sob)
“So much darkness!” You think, “Isn’t there something a little lighter?”
Sure, but just a little.
When a young locksmith finds his way into the Merge, he discovers a parallel universe filled with an infinite number of bizarre, remarkable worlds. Setting off on the adventure of a lifetime, he soon makes allies and friends who help inform and direct him, but he must also overcome the threat of cold-blooded killers, ravenous hell jackals, evil Empresses and more.
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The Archibald Lox Series is a set up 9 books that are fairly short e-books, and Shan’s most recent series to date (It just concluded about 3 months ago), taking place in the afterlife for the murdered, where people can live for hundreds of years…or not.
It’s an attempt at political, urban fantasy, definitely an engaging world, I wish we saw more of it. It feels that, while there’s a lot of worldbuilding an action, it was so interesting, it never felt like enough. I wanted something somewhat like The Lost Journals of Ven Polypheme or Charlie Bone, but they’re definitely a breezy read. and while nothing is delved into super deeply, they’re also a fair bit more diverse than his previous series, which is welcome to me as a longtime fan!
Bookshop Link (These were actually released as ebooks first, on Amazon for about 3$, opposed to the 8.76$ for a hardback copy of a fairly short story.) There are also Volumns separated by three books (1,2,3 – 4,5,6, etc).
All of the above books are available as eBooks (That’s how I have most of them).
source: books, links inline, me reading
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