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Readers--what would you like to see?

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the neurovore of Zur-En-Aargh:

--- Quote from: ptenerelli on November 02, 2006, 07:59:01 PM ---I'd like to see more books in line with the Dresden series - Paranormal Detective stories - with a male main character.  The genre seems swamped with female leads (ie. L.K. Hamilton).  And before anyone brands me a Chauvinist - I've read all of Hamilton's books - loved the first 1/2 dozen - as well Kim Harrison and Charlaine Harris.  They're great - they give me a quick fix - but more and more they rely on romance/sex/etc to move the story along - and not enough mystery/plot.

Has anyone stumbled across a series - or even a lone book - that fits the bill.  It would have to be fairly new - or fairly old - as I've read just about everything on the B&N bookshelf.

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Mike Carey's Felix Castor novels; The Devil You Know had a UK release in April, Vicious Circle just out last month, gettable online or due for US publication starting April of next year.  There's one more sold, and I believe three more are intended altogether. I didn't stumble across them, exactly, I've been a huge fan of Mike Carey's work on Lucifer for years, but it doesn't feel like that's a deal-breaker on the recommendation.

the neurovore of Zur-En-Aargh:

--- Quote from: ptenerelli on November 02, 2006, 07:59:01 PM ---Has anyone stumbled across a series - or even a lone book - that fits the bill.  It would have to be fairly new - or fairly old - as I've read just about everything on the B&N bookshelf.


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Oh, also, Gerard Houarner's The Beast that was Max and Road to Hell are sort of in this direction; paranormal assassin rather than detective, but it's a similarish sort of world.  Fair warning; they are very dark indeed, in a bloody rather than an existential sort of way.

ptenerelli:
Mike Carey's stuff looks great - I've just ordered them both on Amazon.
Thanks for the recommendation!

The Corvidian:
There's Christopher Golden's The Menagerie seires.

Velkyn_Faer:
I'd love to see an epic Lord of the Rings -style book where, at the deciding moment when the forces of good are about to be overrun, they are indeed defeated. The world then falls under Darkness, or Shadow, or The Semi-Darkness-Right-After-Sundown, or whatever.

While the nice little stories where all the good guys get to walk away are heart warming and usually good, I'd still like to see something where the good guys don't always win. That's just me, though.


Velkyn

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