Anyone who listens to the SF Squeecast or follows Seanan McGuire on Twitter has a pretty good idea of her sense of humor. In the InCryptid books its on full display.
Midnight Blue-Light Special by Seanan Mcguire is the second book in the series following the cryptids of New York and Verity Price, a semi-professional ballroom dancer and crypto-zoologist. This one follows on neatly from the first, with Verity settling into her guardianship of the cryptid community just in time to be warned by Dominic that his bosses from the Covenant of St George are sending a delegation to commence a purge.
This is a fun book, but it's not without issues. It doesn't expand much on Discount Armageddon with mostly the same set of cryptids and characters. The Aeslin mice are brilliant (Dominic: "the God of Absolutely Never Smiling, No, Not Ever."), but a few of the gags are used multiple times in the book with much the same wording and that doesn't work as well.
This also appears to be the last Verity book (at least for a while) as she's continuing the series with a different member of the Price family. Seanan clearly loves writing in this universe as you can see from her Cryptid Field Guide complete with artwork.
Currently Reading: The City's Son by Tom Pollock
Midnight Blue-Light Special by Seanan Mcguire is the second book in the series following the cryptids of New York and Verity Price, a semi-professional ballroom dancer and crypto-zoologist. This one follows on neatly from the first, with Verity settling into her guardianship of the cryptid community just in time to be warned by Dominic that his bosses from the Covenant of St George are sending a delegation to commence a purge.
This also appears to be the last Verity book (at least for a while) as she's continuing the series with a different member of the Price family. Seanan clearly loves writing in this universe as you can see from her Cryptid Field Guide complete with artwork.
Currently Reading: The City's Son by Tom Pollock
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