Untamed City Books in Order

The Untamed City books are urban fantasy with a sharper, harsher edge. These stories are built around a hidden city where power belongs to old factions, and survival depends on knowing how to move through danger without becoming part of it.

At the center is Mallory, a performer whose life has already taught her to read rooms, take risks, and keep moving. When she is pulled deeper into the city's politics, the story opens into a world of daimons, witches, hunters, family ambition, and public spectacle. Power here is not abstract. It is social, physical, and often brutal. People fight for status, safety, revenge, and control, and the city itself feels like a machine designed to keep everyone in motion.

No one is standing on stable ground.

That is part of the appeal. The series thrives on shifting loyalties and divided obligations. Characters are pulled between family and freedom, desire and self-protection, spectacle and truth. Marr does not make the city feel cozy or hidden in a charming way. It is dangerous, hungry, and always asking what someone is willing to give up to hold a place inside it.

If you are deciding whether this series is for you, think of it as one of Marr's darker YA worlds. It has romance and attraction, but the larger draw is the sense of motion and threat. The city never really lets up, and the books work best when you lean into that pressure.