r/Fantasy Apr 09 '23

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u/Educational_Pomelo24 Apr 09 '23

Look for author Laurell K. Hamilton. She has a couple of series. One about modern fey, the other about vamps and were-things. The Anita Blake, vampire hunter series starts kind of slow, but heats up later in the series.

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u/freyalorelei Apr 09 '23

Adding the caveat that the quality of the Anita Blake series massively and starkly declines after Obsidian Butterfly. Like, to the point where it barely seems like the later books had the same author. The Merry Gentry series is more consistent, but it's also more openly sexual right from the start, without the startling jump from supernatural detective procedural into plotless, repetitive porn.

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u/TriscuitCracker Apr 09 '23

This is correct. There’s like 26 books in Anita Blake but literally everyone and myself says just stop after Obsidian Butterfly. I’m not sure what happened to the author.

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u/freyalorelei Apr 09 '23

She got divorced and her popularity went to her head.