Urban Fantasy is a HOUSE OF SHAME and SORROW

I tried rereading some of that today and I was like oh my God the amount of retconning that's going on in between this and book two is egregious

it's such a great mashup doing really interesting and fun things in the genre I found it incredibly immersive I was really captivated by this I loved Voya as a main character I loved like all the different struggles that she was having both like with this flooding relationship that she's going to have to kill this kid and also like within her family and like finding out these family Mysteries

it's just it's like a very it's an experience it's a wonderfully written EXP experience but it's not anything that I would say like this plot you must experience it and these characters you must experience them

I did used to like City of Bones when I was in high school and stuff and now like you couldn't no thank you

The only thing I like about cresen city is the setting we have a lot of issues here we have a length issue it's 800 pages long 800 pages long series intro it has just the prologue alone is ridiculously long and then we have a murder mystery is so dragged out yet blatantly obvious in the who done it. I was like I know it's that person and when it was revealed I was like yeah that yeah duh it's so long for no valid reason

Mera Grant who wrote into the drowning deep which is like one of my favorite horror books

this also has a little bit of a love triangle that I actually think works well which is rare this is very immersive it has different kinds of magic different like old magical societies with their different histories I like that it's Arthurian Legend but in Arthurian like Fantasy legend but set in an urban fantasy setting it's very emotionally charged but it's very adventurous

So while we have like a unique World a great main character I like the love interest it might be an enjoyable read for like big fans of the genre but I don't think that this first book is doing enough special for me to be like you're going to read urban fantasy You' got to read Moon called. I like am afraid that if I say like try Moon called for in fantasy people are going to be like this genre is not for me especially because again I don't think that the native rep is appropriate.

in the same way that we are with like Alex Stern in Lee bardugo's ninth house which just didn't feel like appropriate rep either

there's also a ancient evil that is threatening to destroy the city and the five factions of the Soul so they have to like band together and stop this ancient evil from destroying New York City and it's so good I just forgot that it was urban fantasy it is a fstar urban fantasy book

I love the characters in Sylvia Marina Garcia's other book the beautiful ones

I feel like the use of self harm in this book is really inappropriate the infantilization of the main character made me feel incredibly uncomfortable and this like Moon called again has some stuff about Native Americans that I don't think is appropriate like depicting native people as like Monsters who ate people