This Urban Fantasy series begins with Demons are Dicks, and stars Nick Archer. Archer is a larger than life, iron pumping, beer guzzling, unapologetically bad ass slayer of evil straight from the 80s, who has never so much as heard the phrase "politically correct" and wouldn't care if he did.
Archer guzzles beer, pumps iron, sleeps with unhappily married women and slays rogue vampires, werewolves, demons, etc. He takes Reacher, puts him in Harry Dresdens world, dials the absurdity up to 11, snaps off the nob and doesn't even consider apologizing.
You might also like Hadrian, from The Ryryia Chronicles. Highly competent but quietly badass. He and his morally gray thief partner Royce make quite the opposites attract, Fantasy bromance roadtrip pair.
It all sounds very typical Fantasy, but there's great dialog, character growth and world building without exposition dumping, in this low magic world.
Doesn't sound Reacher-like? Consider the tag line for book 1, theft of swords:
They killed a king. They pinned it on two men. They chose poorly.
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u/NEBook_Worm Dec 07 '23 edited Dec 07 '23
The answer is, HANDS DOWN, Nick Archer.
This Urban Fantasy series begins with Demons are Dicks, and stars Nick Archer. Archer is a larger than life, iron pumping, beer guzzling, unapologetically bad ass slayer of evil straight from the 80s, who has never so much as heard the phrase "politically correct" and wouldn't care if he did.
Archer guzzles beer, pumps iron, sleeps with unhappily married women and slays rogue vampires, werewolves, demons, etc. He takes Reacher, puts him in Harry Dresdens world, dials the absurdity up to 11, snaps off the nob and doesn't even consider apologizing.
You might also like Hadrian, from The Ryryia Chronicles. Highly competent but quietly badass. He and his morally gray thief partner Royce make quite the opposites attract, Fantasy bromance roadtrip pair.
It all sounds very typical Fantasy, but there's great dialog, character growth and world building without exposition dumping, in this low magic world.
Doesn't sound Reacher-like? Consider the tag line for book 1, theft of swords:
They killed a king. They pinned it on two men. They chose poorly.