Is there romance? You'd expect there to be, being urban fantasy and having one female and one male lead. It's a lot more of actual police work, and not just the main character stumbling around and getting lucky as you see in a lot of other urban fantasy. And thus has no concept of how bacteria and virus actually work and spreads.Įach book focuses on a single crime, and how they solve it. There is a lot of things magic does here, for example they have little paper wards they put on the walls of a home to stave of disease.

(And in one of the books there IS a bomb and she's their only expert!) Which means Jamie is using a lot of modern ideas of solving crime that they've never thought of. Fingerprints isn't something they know of. And a small part of the story is Jamie missing things from home, and being in contact with an inventor to try to recreate that technology in this new world.īut, it's also a fairly new society when it comes to crime. They don't know how CPR can save a victim after drowning. They've just made cars for example, but no seatbelts or red lights. But because they've been so focused on magic, certain science just hasn't been discovered. Some of the things they can do with magic isn't something we can do with technology. Here the world has magic, and as society evolved they focused more on magic than technology. It has a beautiful blend of magic and technology. What do I love the most about these books? The world honestly.

She then partners up with Henri which is like the magical version of CSI. She then decide to use her training as an FBI Agent to become a Cop and solve crimes. The plot is very simple: Jamie got teleported (By an evil witch actually) to another world and found that she couldn't return home. Jamie - the woman who was once an FBI Agent on earth and Henri the Magical Examiner. So what is it about? Well, it has two perspectives. Magic and the Shinigami Detective only had a little over 2000 ratings on goodreads and only 200 reviews and I feel like it's such a waste that such a good book isn't more wildly known: So here I am! But it's the one most wildly used I think and the one database that has the biggest number. Now, I know Goodreads isn't used by everyone. While looking at my top rated Urban Fantasy, I found an alarming trend: A large amount of my 5 star and 4 star books were books that barely had any ratings.

Goodreads, Amazon - Currently on kindle Unlimitedīingo? Family of Choice, Mystery Plot, Chapter Titles, Genre Mashup

Rating: First book: 5/5, Second book: 4/5, Third book: 4/5 Genre: Urban Fantasy, Steampunk, Paranormal, Crime

The Human Familiar by Honor Raconteur