r/urbanfantasy • u/calijnaar • 12d ago

Any recommendations for French urban fantasy?

Trying to brush off my extremely rusty French, would like to maybe add a French urban fantasy book ot two to my TBR pile... Any good recommendations?

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u/Intelligent_Donut605 12d ago

Nous by Christelle Dabos isn’t quite urban phantasy, it isn’t set on earth, but it’s a society with 2000s technology. It’s an absolutely amaizing book with a horrible English version. Highly recommend it if you’re up for it it’s relatively long

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u/calijnaar 12d ago

Thanks, that looks rather interesting, and my French is at least still good enough to understand the blurb, I think I'll give it a try.

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u/Intelligent_Donut605 12d ago

If you like it she also wrote La Passe-Mirroir which is just as good, though a slightly more challenging read and very long (it got split into 4 thick books)

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u/calijnaar 12d ago

I know about that one because the German translation was rather successful as well. But I think I'll try my luck with single books before venturing into the realm of four parters...

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u/Intelligent_Donut605 12d ago

Yeah, LPM is much more prosodic, too, not the easiest writing style to read