Urban Fantasy discussion

Hello fellow Urban Fiction enthusiast! I generally lurk in the shadows and occasionally click on topics from Urban Fantasy in my feed. However I need your guys help.

I love to read this genre but I have recently noticed the ongoing trend in books where the point of view is constantly bouncing around, à la J.R. Ward style(I'm not a fan of hers). I have to say this writing style drives me nuts!

It has risen in popularity and I must say that I just find it lacking and makes me less enthusiastic about reading a book. It's hard to get attached to characters when the PoV is switched around so much.

I just want one or maybe even two PoV's to follow at most. I would greatly appreciate any books you all could recommend to me that don't jump around from person to person. Thank you!

By the way, my favorite series are 'Fever' 1-5, 'Downside Ghosts', 'Charley Davidson', and 'Kara Gillian' to name a few. Just to give you all an idea of my reading preferences.

I am interested in this too. I wonder if this pov thing is the reason I have had trouble let finding a book I really like lately.

I don't read JR Ward so I am not sure I know what you mean.
Do you mean a series like Women of the Underworld by Kelley Armstrong who has a different narrator in each book or do you mean like a dual point of view like what we see in romance novels (his side and her side?)

Off the top of my head the following books have one narrator
Kate Daniels by Ilona Andrews
Rachel Morgan by Kim Harrison
Kitty by Carrie Vaughn
Graywalker by Kat Richardson
Elemental Assasin by Jennifer Estep

There are a ton more. Just as a FYI but I find most UF books have only one POV but PNR tends to have two POV

Hope that helps

Thank you so much for the recommendations, Dawn! I do read both types of books but I have found the multiple PoV's to be a problem in some UF books, sadly the Fever series that I like so much started to go down hill after book 5 with all the PoV hopping!

I have read the entire Rachel Morgan series but I will be sure to give the other ones a shot. I don't mind a different narrator per book, though I generally do prefer a series to be comprised of one particular character that the series follows.

Katter wrote: "Thank you so much for the recommendations, Dawn! I do read both types of books but I have found the multiple PoV's to be a problem in some UF books, sadly the Fever series that I like so much start..."

I think I quit the Fever series at book 3. For whatever reason I just did not care. I did however enjoy her Highlander series.

Oh you know what another good one is

You should stop the Sookie Stackhouse at like book 7 or 8

Happy Reading!

You might have already seen this in other posts but The Dresden Files

You might have seen this in other posts, but The Dresden Files is a great series.

Oh! Thank you for the book recommendations Dawn and Apollo! I do appreciate it and will make sure to put those on my reading list. :)

There are so many here are a few of my favourites.
keri arthur pretty much all of her books.
Jim butcher dresden files.
Patricia briggs mercy Thompson.
Jennifer estep elemental assassin series.
anything by Christine feehan
jacquelyn frank nightwalkers
Kim Harrison the hallows
larrisa ione demonica series
stacia kane downside ghost
sherrilyn kenyon dark hunter series
chloe Neill Chicago land
nalini singh either psy or angels
Carrie vaughn kitty series

hope there is something you can get into!!!

Holy potatoes! That is a lot of recommendations! Thank you so much for the list, Marie. I will make sure to go through them all and put them on my to read list.

I'm enjoying the Alex Verus Series by Benedict Jacka. Only one pov, and I like the narrator's voice.