[inthemidstofbuddie]

Hi! This might be a stupid question but I thought you might be able to help me: Is there a genre name for a book that has a modern setting in which magic exists but is hidden (think Harry Potter)? I thought maybe something like urban fantasy but I looked into it and it doesn't seem to be that kind of setting. Basically I have an idea for a story and I'd like to read books with this kind of setting to maybe help me get familiar with the type of worldbuilding. Thank you!! :)

there’s not a genre for a specific kind of plot, per se: it’s more the genres have specific plots that tend to exist, and it sounds like you might be looking for contemporary fantasy. it might not fit perfectly, but it sounds like the closest to your query! i admittedly don’t read a lot of books with hidden magic, but here’s some recs that might fit:

The Regrets

Magic for Liars

The Starless Sea

The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

Daughter of Smoke and Bone

The Bone Season

Good Omens

The Rook

The Summoning

there’s absolutely more, but again i don’t read many books with that kind of plot, since i prefer stories where magic is commonplace. i can’t stand the moment when the narrator finds out magic is real and flips out like she’s never touched a fantasy book with a barge pole, y’know? but that’s just me! if anyone has any recs, please do add on! 

[ninja-muse]

There’s actually a split in urban fantasy between worlds where everyone knows about magic and worlds where magic is kind of hidden, and since urban/contemporary fantasy is my jam and I would love for you to write your book, OP, I’m weighing in.

The October Daye and InCryptid novels, and Middlegame by Seanan McGuire (possibly also her Wayward Children books)

The City We Became by N.K. Jemisin

American Gods, Anansi Boys, and Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman

Of Blood and Honey and Of Blue Skies From Pain by Stina Leicht

An Unkindness of Magicians by Kat Howard

Witches of Ash and Ruin by E. Latimer

the Arcadia Project novels by Mishell Baker

the Blood, Smoke, Keeper, and Gale Girls series(es) by Tanya Huff

the Greta Helsing novels by Vivian Shaw

Last Call at the Nightshade Lounge by Paul Krueger

the Olympus Bound trilogy by Jordanna Max Brodsky

the Shadow Police books by Paul Cornell

the Greywalker books by Kat Richardson

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where the fantasy writeblrs at

My dash is shockingly empty and I’m looking for people to follow, so if you:

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-are friendly and active

-are just a writeblr at all!

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Book rec request: simple YA supernatural romance a la Twilight but make it gay

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Looking for recommendations...

YA Fantasy with little to no romance?? I just put down Children of Blood and Bone halfway through because the insta-love killed it for me! I really can’t handle any more terrible romances, but would hate to give up on the YA genre. I’m looking for books where the main character is either not involved in romance, or the romance does not play a major part (maybe they’re separated from their partner and have to journey alone or something, or the relationship is already established so I don’t have to see their painful and nonsensical getting together). Please reblog this so others can give their recommendations as well!

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[coolcurrybooks-deactivated20230]

Fantasy books written by women are often assumed to be young adult, even when those books are written for adults, marketed to adults, and published by adult SFF imprints. And this happens even more frequently to women of color.

This topic’s an ongoing conversation on book Twitter, and I thought it might be worth sharing with Tumblr. And by “ongoing,” I mean that people have been talking about this for years. Last year, there was a big blow up when the author R.F. Kuang said publicly that her book The Poppy War isn’t young adult and that she wished people would stop calling it such. If you’ve read The Poppy War, then you’ll know it’s grimdark fantasy along lines of Game of Thrones… and yet people constantly refer to The Poppy War as young adult – which is one of its popular shelves on Goodreads. To be fair, more people have shelved it as “adult,” but why is anyone shelving it as “young adult” in the first place? Game of Thrones is not at all treated this way…

Rebecca Roanhorse’s book Trail of  Lightning, an urban fantasy with a Dinétah (Navajo) protagonist has “young adult” as its fifth most popular Goodreads shelf. The novel is adult and published by Saga, an adult SFF imprint. 

S.A. Chakraborty’s adult fantasy novel City of Brass has “young adult” as its fourth most popular Goodreads shelf. 

Tasha Suri’s Empire of Sand, an adult fantasy in a world based on Mughal India, has about equal numbers of people shelving it as “adult” or “young adult.” 

Book Riot wrote an article on this, although they didn’t address how the problem intersects with race. I also did a Twitter thread a while back where I cited these examples and some more as well. 

The topic of diversity in adult SFF is important to me, partly because we need to stop mislabeling the women of color who write it, and also because there’s a lot there that isn’t acknowledged! Besides, sometimes it’s good to see that your stories don’t just end the moment you leave high school and that adults can still have vibrant and interesting futures worth reading about. I feel like this is especially important with queer rep, for a number of reasons. 

Other books and authors in the tweets I screenshot include:

Witchmark by C.L. Polk

A Ruin of Shadows by L.D. Lewis

The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern

The Day Before by Liana Brooks

A Phoenix First Must Burn edited by Patrice Caldwell

Shri, a book blogger at Sun and Chai

Vanessa, a writer and blogger at The Wolf and Books

TLDR: Women who write adult fantasy, especially women of color, are presumed to be writing young adult, which is problematic in that it internalizes diversity, dismisses the need and presence of diversity in adult fantasy, and plays into sexist assumptions of women writers. 

[howlsmovinglibrary]

Never forget the amount of hate R.F. Kuang got for explicitly stating that The Poppy War, one of the most triggering books I’ve ever read, should never be shelved as YA. She did so out of extreme concern of the content getting into the wrong hands without warning.

And then two days later Jay Kristoff said the same thing about Nevernight…and nothing happened.

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