Merry Gentry Alternatives?

[delilahkanes.livejournal.com]

I think it's quite easy to find Anita-like alternative reading material in this day and age (I can't spit without hitting a book about some girl dealing with vampires/werewolves), but I was wondering if anyone has stumbled across some quality urban fantasy material about faeries? I'm almost completely clueless.

The only one that immediately comes to mind is War for the Oaks (highly recommended).

Any suggestions would be appreciated. I'm without any books lined up to read right now and it's kinda freaking me out.

Comments

[xarra.livejournal.com]

Well, if you can cope with elves, there's the Mercedes Lackey et al Bedlams Bard series, and the Tannim series...

True faries-with-wings, I'm less certain on, sorry...

[delilahkanes.livejournal.com]

As much as I enjoy Mercedes Lackey's Valdemar and Halfblood Chronicles series, I never could tolerate her take on urban fantasy (okay, I just read a couple, but still). I mean, elves and NASCAR? Not my deal.

She is kind of hit or miss, I think. But I'm going to try her Elemental Masters series at some point because I think the premise sounds interesting.

[allessindra.livejournal.com]

Halfblood Chronicles? Haven't heard that one.

If you like young-teenage-outcast-wish-fulfillment-fantasy, Lackey is fine.

Unfortunately, I haven't yet read anything of hers that doesn't fall into that.

[delilahkanes.livejournal.com]

Sure. And to be fair, I read her books mostly between middle school and high school.

I think Halfblood Chronicles (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Halfblood_Chronicles) is pretty good, though there is surely some young-teenage-outcast-wish-fulfillment-fantasy going on. It was co-written with Andre Norton about a time in which Elves have come to earth and turned the human race into slaves. Dragons also live mostly secretly in this world and dragons can be mischevious long-lived creatures that can change shape. They like to head off into the Human/Elf society and create trouble where they may. One such example is by creating this false "prophecy" about a human-elf halfbreed that will topple Elf society and free the human race. Unfortunately, our fair heroine fits the prophecy perfectly.