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What to read after “Magic Bites” by Ilona Andrews: a list matched by tropes, mood and atmosphere. Under each book you will see what it has in common.

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1
Halfway to the Grave
Jeaniene Frost · 2007
From the same world: “Vampires” and “Urban Fantasy”
Half vampire Cat has spent years hunting the creatures her father belonged to. When she meets Bones, a vampire bounty hunter, he offers to train her in exchange for help with his own list of targets, and the partnership draws her into a world she cannot leave.
2
A Hunger Like No Other
Kresley Cole · 2006
From the same world: “Werewolves” and “Vampires”
Half-vampire Emmaline travels to Paris to learn how her parents died and is abducted by Lachlain, a werewolf king freed from a century of torture. He is sure she is his mate, but she wants nothing to do with the werewolves' war, even as the bond between them grows.
3
Rosemary and Rue
Seanan McGuire · 2009
From the same world: “Urban Fantasy”
- Urban Fantasy
Half-fae changeling October 'Toby' Daye wants nothing to do with Faerie after fourteen years away from it. When a fae noble is murdered and binds Toby with a dying curse to find the killer, she is pulled back into the dangerous politics of the local faerie court.
4
Sunshine
Robin McKinley · 2003
From the same world: “Vampires” and “Urban Fantasy”
- Vampires
- Urban Fantasy
Rae Seddon, a baker called Sunshine, is captured by vampires at her family's lake cabin and learns she carries magic of her own. Bound to a vampire who should be her enemy, she is pulled into a war among the Others, the supernatural beings living beside humans.
5
Certain Dark Things
Silvia Moreno-Garcia · 2016
From the same world: “Vampires” and “Urban Fantasy”
- Vampires
- Urban Fantasy
In a Mexico City policed against vampires, street kid Domingo meets Atl, a descendant of Aztec blood drinkers running from a rival clan. He is drawn to her despite the danger, and together they try to leave the city before the vampires hunting her catch up.
6
Guilty Pleasures
Laurell K. Hamilton · 1993
From the same world: “Vampires” and “Urban Fantasy”
- Vampires
- Urban Fantasy
Anita Blake raises the dead for a living and executes vampires for the state. When a frightened vampire hires her to find who is murdering the city's undead, her search pulls her into the hardboiled politics of Jean-Claude and the master vampire of St. Louis.
7
Storm Front
Jim Butcher · 2000
From the same world: “Urban Fantasy”
- Urban Fantasy
Harry Dresden is Chicago's only professional wizard, listed in the phone book and usually broke. When the police consult him on a double murder, he finds a sorcerer using black magic in a city where vampires and crime bosses all want a piece of the investigation.
8
The Coldest Girl in Coldtown
Holly Black · 2013
From the same world: “Vampires” and “Urban Fantasy”
- Vampires
- Urban Fantasy
After a party ends in a vampire massacre, seventeen-year-old Tana wakes surrounded by bodies and finds her infected ex-boyfriend and a strange vampire boy still alive. She takes them both to Coldtown, a walled city where vampires and humans live under quarantine, and has to decide where she belongs.
9
Rivers of London
Ben Aaronovitch · 2011
From the same world: “Urban Fantasy”
- Urban Fantasy
Peter Grant, a London police officer, discovers that magic is real when he interviews a ghost about a headless corpse. He is assigned to a small, secret unit of the Metropolitan Police that deals with supernatural crime, and takes on a case that stirs up the city's old spirits.
10
Darkfever
Karen Marie Moning · 2006
From the same world: “Urban Fantasy”
- Urban Fantasy
MacKayla Lane travels to Ireland after her sister is murdered and finds she can see the fae, a power that makes her a target. To find the killer and stay alive she turns to Jericho Barrons, a secretive man whose help comes at a price and whose motives she cannot read.
11
Soulless
Gail Carriger · 2009
From the same world: “Werewolves” and “Vampires”
- Werewolves
- Vampires
Alexia Tarabotti is a spinster with no soul, which makes her immune to the supernatural. When a rogue vampire attacks her in steampunk London and a werewolf lord is sent to investigate, the two uncover a plot against the city's vampires and werewolves—and a mutual attraction neither of them expected.
12
A Discovery of Witches
Deborah Harkness · 2011
From the same world: “Vampires” and “Urban Fantasy”
- Vampires
- Urban Fantasy
Diana Bishop, a historian and reluctant witch, calls up an enchanted manuscript that every creature in Oxford wants. When the vampire geneticist Matthew Clairmont offers his help, their alliance defies the laws that keep witches, vampires, and daemons apart.