Consulting the brain of the blogoverse

[azhure]

I need recommendations for the best urban fantasy books or series out there.

For the sake of this, think the modern interpretation of urban fantasy - our world, but with magic/vampires/weres/fae in it.

[cross-posted from my website]

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[vampyrichamster.livejournal.com]

Sergei Lukyanenko's Night Watch series. Magic/vampires/weres/fae in modern-day Russia. It's as much a brilliantly cynical observation of Russia after democratization as it is about OMGMAGICVAMPIRESANDWERES!

Otherwise, Mikhail Bulgakov's Master & Margarita remains one of my most loved books. That's set in 1920s Moscow, but the Devil visits, and there's lots of delightful social commentary about the period slithered in between.