I'm not sure how I feel about the covers on these... on one hand, they're kind of classic at this point, and they definitely show the YA
fantasy genre clearly.
Not exact matches
The first volumes in the series lean toward the detective side of the blend, the later ones more to the magical, but this series is
clearly the gold standard for urban
fantasy as seen through the conventions of the private - eye
genre.
We talked about the fairy - tale - writing pen name he launched in 2016 and the big relaunch (including edits, new covers, and new ASINs on Amazon) he did of his first fiction series in 2017, where he turned it from a sort - of - urban
fantasy series to something
clearly in the superhero
genre.
Bungie, the developer of the game, and the team responsible for the epic Halo series of shooters, has
clearly done a lot of research to build its fiction - the Destiny world is a rich amalgam of myths and
fantasy tropes; the alien races that you fight — the Fallen, the Hive, the Vex — all have military hierarchies and back stories inspired by Tolkien, Asimov and a dozen other
genre writers, as well as Roman and Medieval history.