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Fun sprinkled with the right amount of butt-kicking, and a dash of romance. A nice introduction to the world of Cryptids and the Healy/Price family.

The romance between Dominic and Verity seemed a little underdeveloped, but I felt like they were moving at a good pace. They weren't really declaring eternal love by the end, they were just a couple of attractive twenty-somethings who felt a mutual attraction to each other. It's a nice change from the YOU ARE MAH LYFE!11!! clichés. They're on opposing sides, but Verity gives Dominic enough pause to reconsider if his priorities.

I also wouldn't be surprised if, unlike her other series, this one branches out to the other people in the family because although we're shown only glimpses of them, they have a lot of potential to shine as brightly as Verity.


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Discount Armageddon InCryptid Seanan McGuire Books Reviews

Being in publishing, I seldom review, and never books from my own publisher or any of my clients. I came across this book, most likely from a free BookBub or similar sale...and I love it.

This is an exceptional urban fantasy, both in the story line and the complex world building. We have the Covenant, an ancient cryptid-hunting organization, and the splinter faction, the Price family. The Covenant is stuck in their crypti-cidal doctrine, but the Prices seek to maintain balance among humans and cryptids and are viewed as traitors by the Covenant. There are numerous races of cryptids, both sentient and non. The human-like cryptids live relatively normal lives, and McGuire gives us a lot of great characters with distinct personalities, voices, and species-specific abilities, characteristics, and weaknesses.

But what I loved best was the humor. Verity is smart, sassy, and sarcastic. The family quotes at the start of each chapter are priceless (oops, accidental pun!) and the scene labels are witty and fun.

I might've gotten this one for free, but I've fallen into the get-the-first-book-free trap and have already paid full price for book 2.
That moment when you find a new Urban Fantasy Series that you love!!!

With all the new Urban Fantasies that are seeming to pop up everywhere it is sometime hard to pick out the gems from the garbage. I’m so excited that I found something with so much potential that I have to *squee* in excitement.

In a world of urban fantasy that mostly focuses on shifters and vampires this one decides to move out of that box and into the world of Cryptids.

Cryptid, noun

1. Any creature whose existence has been suggested but not proven scientifically. Term officially coined by cryptozoologist John E. Wall in 1983.
2. That thing that’s getting ready to eat your head.
3. See also monster

This includes but is not limited to Unicorns, basalisks, boogey men, manticores, talking mice, tooth fairies, the Easter bunny (do not joke about the Easter bunny), Dragon Princesses, boob fairy and about a bazillion others that I can’t mention here. But let’s just say there are a lot and they are so awesome.

Verity Price comes from a long line of cryptozoologists. Her childhood was not like ours, it included a lot of the games you would have played as a child but with very different rules.

*** “What was the point of hide-and-seek if you weren’t allowed to dig pit traps or attack your opponents from behind?

“Growing up in my family meant ambushes on your birthday, crossbows for Christmas, and games of dodge ball where the balls were occasionally rigged to explode. It also meant learning how to work your way out of a wide variety of death traps. Failure to get loose on your own could lead to missing dinner, or worse, being forced to admit that you missed dinner because your baby sister had tied you to the couch.
Again.” ****

But since her family is in hiding everything growing up served the purpose to teach her how to stay alive in the face of danger just in case she is ambushed by Cryprids or worse a member of the Covenant

Verity is actually on a journey to find herself. Currently she is in New York on her own her family has given her a year to decide if she wants to follow in the family business and be a cryptozoologist or follow her other dream of being a professional dancer. But since she is in the city she might as well join in on the local Cryptid scene and learn some stuff right.

This book was so much fun. Verity is full of sass and quippy attitude

We don’t get much family interaction yet but you can already tell that they are going to be a riot. Not only are there quotes at the beginning at each chapter that are hilarious but the glimpses we get of Verity’s sister Antimony (see above quote about childhood and being tied up) and her Grandmother who apparently loves to visit hell.

“Answer’s ‘no,’ Dave. What would my grandmother say?”
Dave paused. “She out of Hell this week?” he asked warily.
“Not until Solstice, but still. She wouldn’t understand.”
He relaxed. “She’d understand that you needed to save your job.”
“I think it’s a little more likely she’d understand that you can kill a bogeyman in a lot of different ways, and come riding in to avenge my honor.”

I can’t wait to meet Grandma…she sounds awesome.

Verity also has a cryptid cousin Sarah. They aren’t related by blood since Sarah is more like a Giant Wasp who looks like a human. Sarah is also a Mathematician and a telepath who can do some wacky things with your mind. But no worried she got her morals from Battlestar Galactica so I’m sure everyone around her will be fine.

And did I mention the forbidden romance…Well I will mention it now then. A man from the Enemy a.k.a. the Covenant is in the city and Verity seems to have sparked his interest or vice versa. Dominic De Luca grew up an orphan in the Covenant and he was not expecting anything like Verity when he came to town.

I’m starting to think that they may have been understating things.”
“Oh?” I asked, interested despite myself. “What did they say?
” “That you were all insane.”
“Ah.” I sat up again, grinning at him. “That’s pretty much true. We’re all crazy. But crazy has its benefits.”
“What benefits are those?” he asked warily.
“Crazy gets all the knives.”

I liked that there is no instalove. It is all lusty and even though Verity knows she should maybe direct those lustful feelings anywhere than in Dominic’s direction he does have a great fighting form and who says a girl can’t take a walk on the wild side every once and awhile.

But there is also a plot involving a snake cult and singe women disappearing in the city. It was so much fun that I really didn’t want it to be over and then when it was I was ready to jump into the next book right away.

Did I say read this book? Because I don’t think my review did it justice and I’m pretty sure you should just READ THIS BOOK.
I'm torn as to how to rate this...it held my attention reasonably well, I actually laughed out loud a coupla times, there were some original bits....but basically it really was deeply, aggressively, profoundly cornballish fluff. It's fairly fun fluff, but still. There were some cute bits --I love the Aeslin mice, who are deeply religious in that they have incredible memories for trivia & create high holy day celebrations to commemorate such things as "The Renewd Consciousness of the Arboreal Princess" (our heroine waking up), to things like "Okay Dad, I'll take out the garbage" (btw, I'm deeply disappointed in the "X-ray" function it had entries for every major & minor character plus such terms as New York & Ace bandage, fa cryin' out loud, but not the mice).

There were quite a few clever & fun things, a few surprises, and a lot of totally predictable things (gee, what'll happen when The Covenant hottie shows up.....).

This book sorta reminds me of Laurell K Hamilton (back when she wrote books with plots, & things happened other than minutely detailed, squishy sex), if Laurell had sucked down wine coolers (or chain-toked joints) & worn a nitrous oxide mask while she wrote.

If you're in the mood for corny, goofy, sometimes original, fluffy brain candy, you could do worse. However, my budget's tight enough that I'll only spring for the sequels if they go down to 2 bucks, or I get a windfall. Or I find an NO cylinder lying around.
Fun sprinkled with the right amount of butt-kicking, and a dash of romance. A nice introduction to the world of Cryptids and the Healy/Price family.

The romance between Dominic and Verity seemed a little underdeveloped, but I felt like they were moving at a good pace. They weren't really declaring eternal love by the end, they were just a couple of attractive twenty-somethings who felt a mutual attraction to each other. It's a nice change from the YOU ARE MAH LYFE!11!! clichés. They're on opposing sides, but Verity gives Dominic enough pause to reconsider if his priorities.

I also wouldn't be surprised if, unlike her other series, this one branches out to the other people in the family because although we're shown only glimpses of them, they have a lot of potential to shine as brightly as Verity.