For real for real. Im forever bitter that the release of HP overshadowed His Dark Materials since HDM subverted the genre before YA even got established. Though I suppose "A coming of age story thats meant to be Narnia but militantly atheist; containing child death, concentration camps, feminist subtext that extends beyond 'girl power' and talking polar bears brutally murdering eachother for sport" is a hard sell to a general audience.

Infinite admiration for the love Dresden Files people give to the Dresden Files. Do you have a recommendation for someone who may be interested but doesn't know where to start?

You might like Rivers of London for an urban fantasy crime series set in the UK. It's less horny, but more cop.

Twenty Palaces was pretty good as well, more of a grim tone than Dresden, though it sadly only got three or four books.

Edit: Oh, neat, the author was able to crowdfund doing another pair of books.

There was a brief live action Dresden files on the Sci Fi channel iirc