O Brave New World...

I mean, I think I get it... but how would you describe "urban fantasy"? Is it what I tend to think of as chick lit à la supernatural? Or more... Charles de Lint?

I don't know if I'll like these Southern vampire/gothic/contemporaries... but I'll give them a try. I seem to be on a Southern kick right now, anyway: I am also reading Erskine Caldwell's God's Little Acre and WAYYYY at the other end of some spectrum from that, though also in Georgia, a Black teen chick lit confection called Hotlanta by Denene Millner and Mitzi Miller. It seems a bit like Terry McMillan for the younger set.