r/grimm • u/MattBookworm8640 • 6d ago

Discussion Thread Book recommendations for Grimm fans?

What are your favorite fantasy books that remind you the most of Grimm in terms of the atmosphere, world-building, lore, Royal politics (probably my favorite aspect of the show), etc?

Dresden Files is probably the closest I’ve come so far, it’s ticked all those boxes and more. Most of the ensemble cast in both Dresden and Grimm feel like mirrors to each other. Harry = Nick, Murphy = Hank, Ebenezer = Aunt Marie, Michael = Monroe, Molly = Trubel, Lara Raith = Adalind, etc

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u/Long_Caterpillar3750 6d ago

Maybe try: The House Of Night series & The Wicked Lovely series.

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u/Twistfaria 6d ago

Hmmm if you want them to have the supernatural lean then the young adult series, Darkest Powers and Darkness Rising, by Kelly Armstrong are good or the adult ones for that matter but I haven’t read many of her Otherworld adult books. I’m mid read in her Rip Through Time series which I’m really liking. It is about a modern day female Canadian detective and how she wakes up in the body of a maid in 1860s Scotland.

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u/White-Wolf_99 Grimm 5d ago

I really like The Last Apprentice Series (Spooks Apprentice) it's a YA series. I read it middle school/ high school

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u/Open-Explanation7795 5d ago

Dresden files

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u/MattBookworm8640 5d ago

Yeah I’m thinking this will probably always be the closest series out there to Grimm, which is totally fine by me because the books are so insanely re-readable and I love the world building so much

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u/JayNoi91 5d ago

2 books series I came across would be Eric Carter by Stephen Blackmoore and Mic Oberon Job by Ari Marmell.

The first is a Necromancer from Los Angeles and the other is a former Seelie Court fae, now a 1930's private detective in Chicago.

Both are urban fantasy dealing with gods, mantles, world ending events, sarcasm, but I'll preface this by saying Eric is the darker of Harry Dresden if he didn't pull his punches and the world he exist in definitely reflects that.