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Urban

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The Hive’s latest URBAN FANTASY book reviews!


  • Book ReviewsFantasyUrbanVampires
    By T.O. Munro
    August 18, 2025
    701
    0

    THE MIDNIGHT SHIFT by Cheon Seon-Ran, Translated by Gene Png (BOOK REVIEW)

    A bestseller in Korea, a biting, fast-paced vampire murder mystery exploring queer love and the consequences of loneliness. When four isolated elderly people commit suicide back-to-back ...
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  • Book ReviewsUrban
    By T.O. Munro
    July 7, 2025
    449
    0

    THE LIGHTHOUSE AT THE EDGE OF THE WORLD by J.R.Dawson (BOOK REVIEW)

    The Lighthouse at the Edge of the World by J. R. Dawson is a powerful and poignant contemporary queer fantasy. Perfect for fans of Hadestown and Under the Whispering Door by ...
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  • Book ReviewsFantasyHeistUrban
    By Vinay Vasan
    June 19, 2025
    530
    0

    FIVE PHANTOM DISCOUNT by Marcus Fell & Jason Krumbine (BOOK REVIEW)

    Oceans 5 in the magical underbelly of New York City. I am thankful to Sterling & Stone, NetGalley, and the authors for my review copy. Below ...
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  • Book ReviewsFantasyUrban
    By T.O. Munro
    June 17, 2025
    683
    0

    THE HOUSE ON UTOPIA WAY by Stefan Mohamed (BOOK REVIEW)

    A dame walks into a detective’s office and asks him to find a missing girl. A familiar setup. You might have seen it before. Or maybe ...
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  • Book ReviewsDark AcademiaFantasyUrban
    By J.L. Brown
    May 12, 2025
    691
    0

    THE INCANDESCENT by Emily Tesh (BOOK REVIEW)

    This book is not like Harry Potter. At all. But: What if you take a Deputy Head of an English boarding school for magically capable children, ...
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  • Book ReviewsFantasyNoirUrban
    By Vinay Vasan
    October 25, 2024
    767
    0

    CLAWS OF THE COLLECTOR by Douglas Lumsden (BOOK REVIEW)

    Now Donald, this is how you do the WEAVE   Douglas Lumsden introduces Shade the Collector into his previous world of Alex Southerland series in a ...
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  • Book ReviewsCrime DetectiveFantasyHumourNoirSelf-PublishingUrban
    By Filip Magnus
    October 26, 2023
    2149
    0

    A TROLL WALKS INTO A BAR by Douglas Lumsden (BOOK REVIEW)

    A Troll Walks Into A Bar by Douglas Lumsden (Alexander Southerland P.I. #01)  A Troll Walks Into A Bar is quintessential noir reading. The genre’s identity, ...
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  • Book ReviewsFantasyUrbanXianxia
    By Nils Shukla
    June 27, 2023
    1600
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    IMMORTAL LONGINGS by Chloe Gong (BOOK REVIEW)

    “San-Er functions as a world of its own—half a million inhabitants crammed into each square mile, again and again. The needle-thin alleys between every building sag, ...
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  • Book ReviewsFantasyHumourSelf-PublishingSPFBOUrban
    By T.O. Munro
    February 2, 2023
    4681
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    SMALL MIRACLES by Olivia Atwater (BOOK REVIEW)

    While the Fantasy-Hive is not participating in this year’s Self-Publishing Fantasy Blog Off (SPFBO) – the eighth such event – we do have some overlap with ...
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  • Book ReviewsFantasyParanormalRomanceUrban
    By Lucy Nield
    January 5, 2023
    1192
    1

    THE GLINT OF THE LUOPAN by Sally Feng (BOOK REVIEW)

    “If above is like below, you might look no further than in front of you.”   Sally Feng is an expert in Chinese culture and philosophy ...
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