The Stranger Times

Hannah used to be a wealthy wife, until her marriage fell apart and she kinda... went batshit on her cheating husband. Probably felt really nice at the moment, though right now she needs to start a new life, which involves getting a job.
Where? Well, at The Stranger Times, a newspaper that focuses on the paranormal and weird. They are eccentric people serving an even more eccentric reader base.

And that is really the selling point of this. The characters are just so crazy and all over the place that you end up having fun, often based on the fact that these people should not exist in the same place. They are all completely different in manners, how they deal with their issues, their work ethic. How they would normally probably murder each other...
And really, their boss is incredibly murderable in a total-asshole-why-do-you-exist, Bernard Black sort of way. Yeah, the guy is absolutely the character from Black Books, played by Dylan Moran. That show should speak to readers anyway, so it all connects there.

Talking about murder. That happens here. It focuses on the characters trying to investigate said series of murders, but it's not too depressing. Don't expect some grimdark type of a thing. This is not going to do that, the tone is overwhelmingly sarcastic, random-ish humour.
It all connects into the very real magical world in this universe. It's not extensive, I mean we are in book 1 of an urban fantasy series. On that front, this one is fairly standard. What's with humourous urban fantasy, by the way? What is with the rule that straight up fantasy needs to be serious, dark and political, meanwhile urban fantasy is goofy? Not like I minded here, it was competently done humour.

The whole thing was competent. You know, sometimes urban fantasy starts out a bit awkward, yet here it all worked just fine. I don't know how long this is going to go, though. We have seen a bit of some shadowy organization when it comes to the magical people and creatures, so there is potential to go that way, though I don't know how long you can keep that up with the characters being “just” normie human journalists who got drawn into this. Is it going to be a murder-of-the-week thing? We will see.
Some personal things connect some of them to the supernatural, but again, how long is the newspaper angle going to go? Because if things get serious with the characters embracing the weird, at some point the “type in articles, have a meeting” things are going to become frustrating. Not yet, though. I have zero idea how a newspaper works, so even that was fine.

Perfect if you want to have a fun time, relax and see the headless chickens run around and the weird shit to transpire.