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Something from the Nightside by Simon R. Green
Soulless by Gail Carriger
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency by Douglas Adams
American Gods by Neil Gaiman
The Nymphos of Rocky Flats by Ma ... ... or Blue Moon Rising. His urban fantasy series (which has themes similar to his earlier straight fantasies) starts with Something From the Nightside.
The Vlad Taltos series by Steven Brust is also good for that description. It starts with The Book of Jhereg.
I enjoy both authors, ... ... sex. some romance.
Cal Leandros series by Rob Thurman. later books have more romance. no sex is described.
Nightside series by Simon R. Green. action, but little romance.
Kate Daniels series by Ilona Andrews. romance, action. little sex.
Connor Grey series by ... I read Something From the Nightside by Simon R. Green. It's a pretty standard paranormal detective story focusing a lot on world building and setup, but it was good. To me Harry Dresden, along with the Nightside books, and Conner Grey, The Changeling Detective agency etc. are all more or less "formulaic fantasy PI type pulp", just as Mercy Thompson, Anita Blake, Merry Gentry etc. are all more or less formulaic chick-lit type pulp. Doesn't mean I ... ... takes a lot of thinking to follow or morals to absorb, a la Bangkok 8 series. Or ones that try too hard to be funny (Nightside series).
Anyway... any genre is okay except traditional romance, young adult or historical fiction (The Doomsday Book is nearly too much "history" for me ;-) ... #60: The only book of Green's that I have read is the first book in his Deathstalker series. I will look for Something from the Nightside. Thanks for the recommendation. ... Changeling detective
Mark Del Franco Connor Grey
Liz Williams Detective Inspector Chen
Simon R. Green Nightside
Charlaine Harris Sookie Stackhouse
Carrie Vaughn Kitty
Urban fantasy with explicit erotic
Laurell K. Hamilton Merry Gentry, Anita Blake
... 32. Something From the Nightside by Simon R. Green
I was first exposed to Simon R. Green via a short story in Mean Streets. I really enjoyed that so I decided to give this series a try. I like the mix of dark fantasy and horror. The atmosphere is so out there that it dazzles the ... ... so that'd be Bathroom Reader Plunges into the Universe.
I'm not reading anything at the moment, I'll probably start Something from the Nightside pretty soon. Have found it hard to settle on anything in the last week - but I have just finished a paranormal mystery called Something from the Nightside by Simon R Green. Sort of Harry Dresden meets Dick Tracy. Not a bad read at all - a bit ikky in a couple of parts - but the humour sort of took the tension ... I have just finished a paranormal mystery called something from the nightside by Simon R Green. Sort of Harry Dresden meets Dick Tracy. Not a bad read - my daughter has the second in the series so I may give that a go Books by Simon R. Green especially his Nightside things - Something From The Nightside and basically any by Simon R. Green in this series. It is not so much the setting but how his telling of it doesn't seem to point out any of the absurdity of what you are seeing. His world, though urban and not necessarily a "new" way of seeing things is somehow ... ... Crosses by Jeffery Deaver
30. Common Sense by Glenn Beck
31. Dead Until Dark by Charlaine Harris
32. Something from the Nightside by Simon R. Green
33. Lemon Meringue Pie Murder by Joanne Fluke
34. The Prophecy's Child: the unseen by W. E. D. Wilson
35. ... ... world but with magic, or in a world sort of beside our own and sharing many of its traits...as in Simon R. Green's Nightside series.
3) Paranormal romance: Books that draw heavily from the conventions of the romance genre, but which include vampires, werewolves, fairies, etc. I'd ... 
#35 Something From The Nightside by Simon R. Green
 amberwitch in FantasyFans : Fantasy Mysteries (Aug 15, 2008, 2:15pm)
... Unshapely Things and Unquiet Dreams featuring a supernatural consultant with the Boston PD, Simon R. Green's Nightside series about a PI in Londons nightside, Elaine Cunningham's Changeling Detective series about an (elven) PI in Providence. Kim Harrison's first book in ... ... Trial by Tanya Huff
14) Bright of the Sky by Kay Kenyon
15) (6) A Dirty Job by Christopher Moore
16) Something from the Nightside by Simon Green
17) (7) Infidel by Ayaan Hirsi Ali
18) The Thief Lord by Cornelia Funke
19) Kushiel's Mercy by Jacqueline Carey
... ... I was hoping to mooch some book knowledge off of you!
And amen to not being a fan of the urban fantasy stuff. I read Something From the Nightside and that was enough of that, thanks. ... Andrews
45. Vampire Kisses 5: The Coffin Club by Ellen Schreiber
46. Magic Burns by Ilona Andrews
47. Something From The Nightside by Simon R. Green
48. Full Moon Rising by Keri Arthur
49. Kissing Sin by Keri Arthur
50. Tempting Evil by Keri Arthur
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Scandal’s Bride by Stephanie Laurens (19th Century)
A Secret Love by Stephanie Laurens (19th Century)
Something from the Nightside by Simon R. Green (London)
Stardust by Neil Gaiman (Wall, 19th Century)
The Subtle Knife by Phillip Pullman (Oxford, 19th Cent ... I read the first book in the series Something From the Nightside and I thought that it was ok, but a little repetative. I have two others that I picked up on BookMooch: Nightingale's Lament and Paths Not Taken. I haven't read them yet but I'm hoping that they are an improvement from the first ... ... Not great litterature, but nice comfort reads.
For of 1'st person male protagonist urban fantasy try these:
The Nightside series by Simon R. Green is about a PI in the supernatural part of London. Very much recommended if you like The Dresden files.
The Devil You Know by Mike ... Books 61-70:
61. The Cloud Sketcher by Richard Rayner
62. Fool on the Hill by Matt Ruff
63. Something from the Nightside by Simon R. Green
64. Five Days in Summer by Kate Pepper
65. Practical Demonkeeping by Christopher Moore
66. The Sign of the Book by John ... ... - Queen Betsy series
Katie MacAlister - Aisling grey series
A la Jim Butcher:
Simon R. Green - Nightside series
Mike Carey - The Devil You Know - I've only read the first of the series
Mark del Franco - Unshapely things - read like the start of a series, ... ... Manfredi (good condition)
World's End (The Age of Misrule: Book 1 by Mark Chadbourn (excellent condition)
Something from the Nightside by Simon Green (excellent condition)
#34 The Amber Spyglass by Philip Pullman
#35 Something From the Nightside by Simon R Green
#36 In The Name of God by Paula Jolin
#37 The First Sign of the Zodiac by Vicki Pettersson ... Butcher (sassy heroes, first person) there are a number I would recommend;
Simon Green Nightside series starting with Something from the Nightside (PI in the otherwold London, male 1. person pov)
Patricia Briggs series starting with Moon called (Werewolves and shapeshifters, female 1 ... ... Simon R. Green Nightside series (the dark side of London where it's always three o'clock in the morning) starting with Something from the Nightside and the YA Enchanted Forest series by Patricia C. Wrede starting with Dealing with Dragons
Otherwise i'm always a fan of underdog to ... ... more lightweight there were the Black Oak books by Charles L. Grant, and I have not read, but have seen recommended, Something from the Nightside by Simon R. Green and the rest of the series. I'm currently reading Fool on the Hill by Matt Ruff and Something from the Nightside by Simon R. Green.
I recently finished The Cloud Sketcher by Richard Rayner and Bangkok Tattoo by John Burdett. Simon R. Green has a Nightside series which i think is around 6/7 books right now the first one is Something From The Nightside really, really, good. ... oftware.
If you like your stories a little darker, there's Simon R. Green's series about the Nightside, starting with Something from the Nightside. If you like the Dresden Files, you'll probably like the Nightside. I am reading Simon R. Green's Something From the Nightside etc. Nightside series. Definitely along those lines.
Mark Chadbourn's World's End - Age of Misrule and Dark Age trilogies, as well. 26. Something from the Nightside - Simon R. Green
This is an entertaining and very easy to read series. The books are short, but the concept is something new and interesting.
Green definitely comes up with some funny scenes, catching dialogue, and mysterious characters. Oh, and I ... ... The Morganville Vampires, Book I (The Moganville Vampires) by Rachel Caine
Kushiel's Scion by Jacqueline Carey
Something from the Nightside by Simon R. Green
28/100 ... Stackhouse Dead until dark series over Laurell Hamiltons Anita Blake series.
Talking PI's I'd say Simon Greens Nightside series is some of the best.
... progresses, but just take a break between novels:-)
The usual noir PI style.
I prefer the Nightside series starting with Something from the Nightside novels by Simon Green staring yet another noir PI with paranormal powers working in Londons supernatural counterpart. ... interesting. I of course ran back to LT to check and see if anyone on this group had read them. :D The library did not have Something from the Nightside which is first according to a list I found. Will it make much difference? I recently read the Simon Green Nightside series. It is set in London and was a really fun, fast past series. I recently received that latest book in this series, but haven't had a chance to read it yet.
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