TOP 5 Settings We Would Like To Visit Pick #5: KATE DANIELS UNIVERSE i.e. POST APOCALIPTIC URBAN FANTASY-ATLANTA
I have no excuses for this.
I can only admit my weakness and hope in your understanding.
I am in love with everything this series is but Atlanta is what stole my heart first. As Thelma said in the announcement (link at the bottom of the post) we can’t focus on the magic systems here but know that in this case the setting and the magic are deeply linked.
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I’ll try to be concise but precise in explaining:
WHY I PICKED KATE DANIELS?
This setting is technically talking pretty small compared to other big series, it’s urban fantasy and so the action takes place in one CITY: Atlanta.
But it’s not your average ‘magic under the surface of a normal city’ fantasy, this is a world where magic burst out and overwhelmed everything like a storm, wave of it changing the world from how we knew it forever and even decades later the wave keep coming, less destructive but still dangerous and unstoppable.
This is the city that lives after surviving a MAGICAL APOCALYPSE.
As in the best Urban Fantasy, the city Atlanta is a character as much as the stage of events. It manages to appear incredible and huge because the authors give you both its faces it, taking you around it and explaining you how that massive magical forest came to be where once stood a simple park due to magic and amazingness.
I adored how this city never seems too small, you almost can’t believe everything is contains and even if some part of you occasionally wonders about what miracles could be happening in the rest of the world, Atlanta becomes another protagonist of the story and you want to stay there, to see her story and be immerse in it because this is a world in a world.
This incredible setting joined by the amazing MAGIC system (that will be the topic of another post I’m sure, so don’t sweat) makes the perfect combination.
I simply could NOT avoid including this in my top.
WHY IS THE WORST IDEA TO VISIT THIS?
Because I would quite probably be dead by the end of the day, in a world where the balance between technology and magic is unpredictable, some curse in my blood could be awakened and kill me or make other kill me or both, generally everything is dangerous and lethal…
Would it be worth it, though? Yes.
Just do yourself a favor and start the series so when the next inevitable post about it appears you’ll be able to fangirl over it with me!
PLEASE CHECH #BOOKDRAGON’S TOP 5 AND #BDT5 FOR MORE!
