recommend please: serie, adult woman protagonist, supernatural

[ZiriForGood]

Hello, I am looking for some book inspiration.

I like interesting contemporary characters, and I am looking for an adult woman as a protagonist.

I want to get familiar with the setup and than enjoy it, so I am looking for a serie, preferably longer one.

I like investigation stories in supernatural/urban fantasy/sci-fi settings.

It should be available in English.

Any recommendations please?

I am just finishing Anita Blake serie, I mostly enjoyed it, thought the level of gore and erotics seemed unnecessary high to me.

The House Next Door - Anne Rivers Siddons?

Thanks, I'll check it.

If I ease up on the supernatural, any tip for a good book serie with an interesting and current heroin?

Why do I look for a serie? English isn't my first language and while I can read practically anything it takes a moment to get familiar with author's style and setup enough to find reading (or preferably listening) easy and relaxing. With a serie I do the adjusting once and than can just enjoy all the subsequent books.

The Merrily Watkins books by Phil Rickman might be worth a look.

The Wine of Angels is the first in the series.

I’d suggest the Kitty Norville series by Carrie Vaughn - it’s urban fantasy, like Anita Blake (but more humour and less sex), and the main character is a werewolf. The first book is called Kitty and the Midnight Hour.

The Mercy Thompson series - really enjoyable urban fantasy and there's a spin-off series in the same world called Alpha and Omega so lots of books to get through! Much less gory/explicit than Anita Blake too and I enjoy the stories more. Lots of investigating plots although it's not the main character's job.

@ZiriForGood , your English is impeccable apart from one word - series needs a final S. It seems illogical but that is the correct word. Hope you don't mind my pointing it out. And I hope you find what you're looking for.

Oh I'm interested in this too. I've read Anita Blake before and I've just restarted it. It's a strange series as the first 6 books are detective stories with a bit of sex and then it turns in to being alllll about sex. I still enjoyed them though 😁

Sarah j Maas house of earth and blood. Brilliant supernatural series

Coming back to say thank you for the tips.

I started with Kitty Norville, because of the radio theme and I really like it. Good mixture of fun and mystery. And lot's of direct speech and dialogues, which is extra bonus for my English.

I suppose I'll try a few more of them over the time :)

I also love the Mercy Thompson books. Am.considering re reading them actually as feel I have forgotten a lot.

The Aileen Travers series by TA white might be good for you. The investigation aspect is there, adult woman, fantasy, not too much sex! Also Alice Worth by Lisa Edmonds. Both are relatively easy reads too so I like them as they aren't too demanding.

I really enjoyed the Sookie stackhouse novels by Charlaine Harris brilliant supernatural series that focuses alot on the world and characters so you'll be able to get on with the writing style easy enough.

I would also highly recommend the invisible library series by Geniveve Cogman.

Im the person who suggested the Kitty Norville series, so it’s great to hear that you liked it!

Jane Yellowrock series by Faith Hunter.

My two favourites. Sarah J Mass - I'd start with her Throne of Glass series. Also Ilona Andrews Kate Daniels series.

Just coming back to thank for the Mercy Thompson tip, I enjoyed it a lot.

I love the mix of fantasy and everyday life elements and Mercy's interactions with different characters around her.

Imagine my surprise when Mercy escaped her kidnapper, took a random bus and emerged in my home city :)
It is always funny when American authors set something in my country, sometimes it leads to utterly ridiculous results, but Patricia Briggs nailed it, the fantasy take on selected local historical events make sense and observations are spot on.

The Stranger Times series by C.K. McDonnell - male writer, female protagonist, chaotic urban fantasy set in the office of an esoteric weekly newspaper. Humorous, pacy and entertaining if not particularly profound.

@Bookwormmumuk @ZiriForGood

Oooh I loved the Sookie Stackhouse books and of course they were made into a drama called Trueblood. I loved that series!

Not sure if you're looking for more recommendations but the Invisible Library series is brilliant - the protagonist, Irene, is a very clever Librarian travelling between multiple worlds to steal unique books and unravelling all sorts of mysteries and intrigues along the way.

You may also enjoy the A Natural History of Dragons series which features a woman in a Jane-Austen-esque world who breaks social conventions in her drive to research dragons.

I love the Steerswoman series which is well worth reading but it has been stopped at book 4 for ages so don't start that one if you will get frustrated.

Finally Lois McMaster Bujold's World of the Five Gods books are great and have many strong female characters. Paladin of Souls is a fantastic example with a great female lead (a dowager queen in her 40s who is finally deciding that she's had enough of being coddled, so heads off on a "pilgrimage" just to get out of her boring life). To enjoy it fully I'd recommend starting with The Curse of Chalion though that has a male protagonist. I love all LMB's writing though - so much to enjoy there including Shards of Honor and Barrayar.

I'm always looking for more, so thanks a lot for your tips!

I noticed lately that I enjoy more the current stories than pseudo mediaeval setups of traditional fantasy, so I suppose the Invisible Library will be the best match for my current reading mood.

Thanks again everyone.

I'll add one extra wish. Author or setup not from the UK/US (but available in English).
It was fun reading four different points of view on "magic went public in the US", but there must be more, either continental Europe or anywhere else really.

This isn't what your last post asks for but my favourite supernatural series is the Otherworld series by Kelley Armstrong. She's Canadian (as is the lead in a few of the books-as the world builds the narrators change) but a lot of them are set in America. I go back to these books a lot. Been reading them for about 20 years! She's done a lot of supernatural writing but Otherworld is my favourite.

So glad you like them! I just re-read the whole lot and really enjoyed them.

It's difficult to think of any urban fantasy set in different places but you could try the Night Watch books by Sergei Lukyanenko, which are set in Russia - I've only read the first and the protagonist is male rather than female (I think the narrators change from book to book though) but I thought it was good enough that I plan to read the rest.

The Invisible Library has a huge range of worlds (from faerie to high tech via quasi-Victorian steampunk!) so I think you'll enjoy those.

@El@EllieQ

Is that the one with the werewolf called Janet? Thhe one who kept 'breaking men' cos she was too tough? I loved her!!