#incryptids

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so you’ve been disappointed by another book series with a wizard named harry and yes i mean the d.resen files. 

here are recommendations for urban fantasy series that deal with mysteries and murder! 

ninth house by leigh bardugo - alex can see ghosts and they see her.  because of her abilities, she’s been brought into a secret society in yale that safeguards knowledge of the occult. unfortunately, there are monsters that prey on the living and dead. 

october daye by seanan mcguire - fourteen years ago, toby was turned into a fish. now somewhat human again, she’s separated herself from the faerie world and hides herself from hidden kingdoms in san francisco. that is until someone leaves her a cursed voicemail on her answering machine...  

indexing by seanan mcguire - fairytales are real and they want murder. 

incryptids by seanan mcguire - a family splintered themselves from a monster hunting organization generations ago. now dedicating their lives to protecting cryptids and other things that go bump in the night, verity and her family have a score to settle with the covenant. 

ghost roads by seanan mcguire - same universe as above but more focused on ghosts. 

magic for liars by sarah gailey - imagine veronica mars investigating a murder in a wizard school. 

the shadow series by lila bowen - nettie lonesome has fought a vampire and lived. now traveling the wide expanse of the west, a search is set to understanding a terrifying legacy and the monsters that wait inside everyone’s skin. 

silver in the wood by emily tesh - a practical folklorist meets the legendary green man. 

a charm of magpies by kj charles - lord crane is a under a curse only a practitioner can break. as they explore the wholesome countryside of victorian england, dark secrets lurk in the manors and churchyards. 

the city we became by nk jemisin - the living avatars of nyc are awakened and brought together to fight a lovecraftian monster. 

deep secret by diana wynne jones - alternate worlds, a missing heir to a kingdom, a terrible hunt for a new coworker, and a hurried sci-fi convention, poor rupert is having an awful time as a magid. 

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I can't wait to be a physics-fueled engine of death

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I see your reference, seanan mcguire. and I love it.

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“This world is unforgiving and cruel to those it judges as even the slightest bit outside the norm. If anyone should be kind, understanding, accepting, loving to their fellow outcasts, it’s you. All of you. You are the guardians of the secrets of the universe, beloved of worlds that most will never dream of, much less see … can’t you see where you owe it to yourselves to be kind? To care for one another? No one outside this room will ever understand what you’ve been through the way the people around you right now understand.”

- seanan mcguire 

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"'Tell James Sally Ate His Waffles'" llol

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I can’t describe how much I love @seananmcguire‘s writing. I’m reading Imaginary Numbers, and by page 39 there’s already been three lines that I’ve wanted to write down and send to a friend because they’re just so GOOD! I’m probably going to have to give in and read the ones she’s written as Mira Grant even though I don’t like horror, because I just adore how she phrases things.

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“Anyone who thinks cryptozoology is the study of the impossible has never really taken a very good look at the so-called "natural world." Once you get past the megamouth sharks, naked mole rats, and spotted hyenas, then the basilisks, dragons, and cuckoos just don't seem that unreasonable. Unpleasant, yes, but unreasonable? Not really.”

- Discount Armageddon, Seanan McGuire