I remain hopeful that Aaronovitch will get a TV series any day now, since that series (including its graphic novels) are very clearly angling for TV interpretation. I can see a Dr Helsing cameo in there!
The McGuire is a pretty recent release, a sequel to her meta-portal fantasy Every Heart a Doorway (2016), and narrows in on the backstory of two main characters from that book. I read them in order and I think that did help, though they would standalone pretty well too. Sticks and Bones deals with people whose best home is in a Gothic landscape, whether as mad scientist or as vampire. It does some interesting things with the meaning of actions as evil, and the whole meta-portal fantasy aspects are better developed than in the previous book. (There's also some competently handled breaking of imposed gender roles, the best I've seen on this from McGuire so far, which is a nice step up from her).
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The McGuire is a pretty recent release, a sequel to her meta-portal fantasy Every Heart a Doorway (2016), and narrows in on the backstory of two main characters from that book. I read them in order and I think that did help, though they would standalone pretty well too. Sticks and Bones deals with people whose best home is in a Gothic landscape, whether as mad scientist or as vampire. It does some interesting things with the meaning of actions as evil, and the whole meta-portal fantasy aspects are better developed than in the previous book. (There's also some competently handled breaking of imposed gender roles, the best I've seen on this from McGuire so far, which is a nice step up from her).