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GrimTempest  Title: Board Manager
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Cal Leandros series by Rob Thurman, book 1 is titled Nightlife.
It didn't hook me quite as hard as the other two series but it was a good urban fantasy read. Four books in the series so far i think.
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Yossarian_42  Title: RUSH > ALL
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I am a bigoted urban fantasy reader, I only read female characters from female authors.
Perhaps it is time for me to give the men a chance.
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Caoilin Title: Instigator
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so... you don't read dresden?  wtf is wrong with you man!
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Yossarian_42 Title: RUSH > ALL
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Dresden is the exception, but I don't count it because I read Dresden ages ago before I knew what urban fantasy was.
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GrimTempest Title: Board Manager
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Yossarian_42 posted:
I am a bigoted urban fantasy reader, I only read female characters from female authors.
Perhaps it is time for me to give the men a chance.
if it helps rob thurman is the pen name for ROBIN thurman 
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Yossarian_42 Title: RUSH > ALL
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So it is like a bigotry wading pool.
Excellent.
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GrimTempest Title: Board Manager
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anyone else try these yet?
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Yossarian_42 Title: RUSH > ALL
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I bought the first book but I'm still a ways away from reading it. Perhaps I will slide it in after I finish this Jim Butcher series.
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-MrBean-  Title: Now With Extra Baldness
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Just added it to my Library Queue since I have nothing to currently read.
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Yossarian_42 Title: RUSH > ALL
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I just finished book one and I have mixed feelings about it.
On the whole it was good and I'm going to read the others but it had a couple flaws that kept me from really liking it. The author didn't do a very good job investing me in the characters, honestly I could give a damn about them or what happens to them. That belies another problem I have with her writing, it was a little slow and ponderous, too introspective on the character's part. Slow developing plots with a lot of time spent on the characters works if you really like the character, but like I said, these characters didn't grab me. I'd go so far as to say I felt like the characters were caricatures of real characters- they had no soul or identity. Character doppelgangers.
This is the authors first book and I've read some pretty heinous first books that turned in to great series and this book was more than good enough to warrant me reading the rest of the series. Really I'm looking for one of two things from the author to make them noteworthy- learn to make me care about the characters or improve the plotting and pacing of the books. She isn't a fan of the classic 'late in and early out' maxim for writing a scene.
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