... monster mash-up novel in the vein of "Pride, Prejudice, and Zombies," "Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters," "Jane Slayre," "Little Women and Werewolves," "Android Karanina," "Queen Victoria, Demon Hunter," or "Mansfield Park and Mummies" I am going to SCREAM.
It's cute, and a novelty, when you have one book of this type. Or maybe even two. But now it's just getting ridiculous, folks. Same goes for Twilight knock-offs, and badly written werewolf novels.
And all of the urban fantasy on the shelves is starting to look an awful lot alike, too... I'm not really too familiar with UF as a genre, so I'm curious: is being a detective/crimesolving type a requirement of the genre? Because the vast majority, if not all, of the UF I browsed through today had this theme, including Jim Butcher and Laura Ann Gilman's "Hard Magic." Those are the only ones I can think of right now.
I think maybe I'm just spending too much time at Barnes and Noble and losing my mind.
It's cute, and a novelty, when you have one book of this type. Or maybe even two. But now it's just getting ridiculous, folks. Same goes for Twilight knock-offs, and badly written werewolf novels.
And all of the urban fantasy on the shelves is starting to look an awful lot alike, too... I'm not really too familiar with UF as a genre, so I'm curious: is being a detective/crimesolving type a requirement of the genre? Because the vast majority, if not all, of the UF I browsed through today had this theme, including Jim Butcher and Laura Ann Gilman's "Hard Magic." Those are the only ones I can think of right now.
I think maybe I'm just spending too much time at Barnes and Noble and losing my mind.