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Your Pet Urban Fantasy Cliche Peeves
Galvatron:
I'm quite tired of vampires that are nice.
I like the vampires of Lost Boys, 30 Days of Night, David Welligntons stories. Vampires like that are great.
Zombies are getting tiring, I like the genre but most of the new stuff isnt adding anything to it. I will check out the series Shecky mentioned though because of who the author is =)
Mostly I just have had enough of nice monsters, I want mean nasty monsterous monsters.
Wordmaker:
Right with you. I miss the days when vampires were something to be afraid of. One of the things I love about Dresden Files. The vampires are damn scary.
Galvatron:
Ya, werewolves are quite guilty of it also these days.
One thing I like, and would like to see more of, is authors making up new monsters and critters for their own universe instead of borrowing old mythos for everyhting.
I dont mind old myths, but its just a plus when I read a book were things are made up or at least when the author populates a story with things he/she created for them self.
Wordmaker:
I play with that a little in Silent Oath. But I made a conscious choice to use inspiration from real mythology for the series. I love old mythology so I enjoy seeing reinterpretations from different authors.
But yeah, seeing some new monsters out there would be pretty cool.
Galvatron:
I never use to mind seeing the same myths re done in UF, but for me at least, I want new things right now. Now a story that has mostly established mythical critters but a few new ones is fine, and sometimes if the author puts their own spin on someting and makes it unique enough thats fine with me.
I just get tired of seeing the same things in each book i read. Its the same thing for fanatasy, in the years I've been reading fantasy I have had my fill of elves dwarves orcs and trolls.
Its not that its bad or that I wont read something with them, but if I am at the book store and in one hand I have a book of reused critters and a book of brand new ones in the other, I will tend to buy the book with new stuff just to see how something a bit different.
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