Nafiza Azad is a self-identified island girl. She has hurricanes in her blood and dreams of a time she can exist solely on mangoes and pineapple.
Born in Lautoka, Fiji, she currently resides in British Columbia, Canada where she reads too many books, watches too many K-dramas, and writes stories about girls taking over the world.
Azad's debut YA fantasy was the Morris Award–nominated
The Candle and the Flame.
The Wild Ones is her second novel.
At Tor.com she tagged five books featuring fantastic cities. including:
Atlanta, Georgia, 2040 — Kate Daniels Series by Ilona Andrews
The City of Atlanta in the urban fantasy series by Ilona Andrews is very unlike the contemporary city by the same name. The series is set in the near future, a time when the world has been drastically altered by magic. Magic in this world is not constant, however, but comes in unpredictable shifts. Magic will be up for hours at a time and then fall away. Technology is not compatible with magic so the people who populate this 
world and the city specifically have to be prepared for all situations. Cars are present but so are horses and mules. Andrews builds a city that is teeming with different kinds of supernatural creatures involved in the very prosaic business of surviving. The vampires run a casino and were-creatures have their own stronghold with a Beast Lord in place. There’s a fairy warren in a park and a no-man’s land in another district that defies all laws and logic of nature and magic. The on and off pulsing of the magic forces the characters of the novel to be aware of and interact with the setting in specific ways even as they go about fighting for both their lives and good. Andrews pays particular attention to detail as there are discussions about the rapid deterioration and breakdown of materials used in construction in this new environment and how this forces innovations in new buildings. The city is a delicious mixture of natural and supernatural, vividly alive and present in all the ten books in the series.
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the other entries on the list.
--Marshal Zeringue
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