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4.1 AVERAGE
4.1 AVERAGE
lighthearted
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
A welcome return to Verity and an actual urban setting. Same criticisms and praise as with the rest of this goofy series. Verity could be a genuinely fun and interesting character; it's disappointing that her main personality trait boils down to "I like dancing".
This was fast and fun and the perfect mental palate cleanser after the last "fun" book I slogged through ([b:Crown of Stars|21059|Crown of Stars (Crown of Stars, #7)|Kate Elliott|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1388182021s/21059.jpg|3333408], because you asked).
I found Verity much less annoying in this book than I had originally. She's still no October Daye, but I really enjoyed this book and getting to meet her much alluded to grandmother. The ending felt a little abrupt, but it wasn't enough to distract me from the fun of the storytelling.
I found Verity much less annoying in this book than I had originally. She's still no October Daye, but I really enjoyed this book and getting to meet her much alluded to grandmother. The ending felt a little abrupt, but it wasn't enough to distract me from the fun of the storytelling.
I was a little torn about this book. While I liked it very much -- as I have liked most of the InCryptid books -- it felt a little forced as the author had to smoosh together Verity/Valerie and the mystery/the competition all at once, leading me to feel like I hadn't gotten enough of either.
Maybe I would have liked this book a little better if McGuire had switched viewpoints over to Dominic (or even Surprise Guest of the Price Family person) while Verity had to go be Valerie for a while. Then we could have had lots of Dominic -Aeslin mice conversations.
As it was I felt just a little shortchanged; there wasn't enough dance for the dance fan and not enough mystery for the mystery fan. That doesn't mean I didn't finish it in about four hours total and acted very rudely toward somebody who interrupted me.
Maybe I would have liked this book a little better if McGuire had switched viewpoints over to Dominic (or even Surprise Guest of the Price Family person) while Verity had to go be Valerie for a while. Then we could have had lots of Dominic -Aeslin mice conversations.
As it was I felt just a little shortchanged; there wasn't enough dance for the dance fan and not enough mystery for the mystery fan. That doesn't mean I didn't finish it in about four hours total and acted very rudely toward somebody who interrupted me.
In which Seanan gets to flex her reality show muscles plus a low key nightmare scenario with a snake cult using a reality show as a feeding pool. Also Grandma shows up, which is always fun. Oh also Verity may have declared open war on the Covrnant???
Probably my favorite one so far!!!! Verity is my fave, omg.
These books are so campy and fun. As usual it was a bit over the top, but I enjoyed it nonetheless. I liked Verity's internal conflict as she struggles to balance her life as a dancer with the rest of her life. The mystery was decent, and I enjoyed the inclusion of Alice in this story line.
I do often struggle with getting into this series at the start of each book. It's like McGuire starts mid stream and you have to fall back into the cadence of the book before it all clicks together. Also, there was a gratuitous over use of parenthetical statements in the beginning, which was fairly distracting. Whole //paragraphs// were in parentheses.
On the whole I liked it and look forward to more. I hope the future holds a book from baby sister's POV.
I do often struggle with getting into this series at the start of each book. It's like McGuire starts mid stream and you have to fall back into the cadence of the book before it all clicks together. Also, there was a gratuitous over use of parenthetical statements in the beginning, which was fairly distracting. Whole //paragraphs// were in parentheses.
On the whole I liked it and look forward to more. I hope the future holds a book from baby sister's POV.
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
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Wow was I happy to be back with Verity, even though I really liked Alex’s PoV too I have a great time with Verity. I was a little sorry that I didn’t read a few of the road trip free stories available from Seanan Mcguire’s website here before starting this but don’t worry I read them right after so I would have all the details of the 4+ month road trip to get back to Oregon.
Verity and Dominic are living with her family and while they are not nearly as bad as Shelby’s family was to Alex I couldn’t help but feel a little bad that Dominic is still trying to prove himself worthy to join their ranks. This book started out a little slow for me and when Verity is given the opportunity to enter a dance competition as her alter ego Valerie…I’m not going to lie I groaned internally. But let me put your fears to rest. IT WAS AWESOME. And the reason it was awesome is because of her back up ALICE.
Yep this book took off when Grandma Alice showed up. She is the only member of the family to have 2 congregations of mice following her. But that is what happens when you are close to 80 but look 25 because you are an interdimensional bounty hunter trying to find your husband who was sucked into some vortex 60ish years ago. She is fantastic in this and I love her and Verity hanging out together. Especially since if anyone is going to understand turning and marrying an ex-covenant boy it is her.
Okay so Verity is going to give Valerie (her dance alter ego) one more change in the spot light and then it will be time to tie off the loose ends and kill her off. So she is just going to enjoy the moment and dance for the fun of it but then she finds a few of the voted off contestants dead and that changes everything because someone is trying to call a snake god forth.
Since the stakes have just been raised the family decides that Verity needs a little extra back up and who better than Grandma Alice.
After Alice showed up I couldn’t put the book down. It was intense, fast and fun. Plus there were the mice and as always I love the mice and their sayings and rituals.
I adore that as the books go one the mice get more and more page time and get to do more things to help out. I find them one of the best parts of this series.
The ending surprised me, like really surprised me and wow is really all I can say without giving anything away. I didn’t see the series heading in that direction but I’m pretty sure that whatever happens next is going to be just great.
A few other things of interest.
- Another clan of Dragon Princesses that need something from Verity.
- cute Ghoul children at play
- A shark shifter that can walk on land
- Routewitches
- A fight with a giant Snake God.
- chupacabra
- AND newlywed Verity and Dominic. (so totally cute)
Wow was I happy to be back with Verity, even though I really liked Alex’s PoV too I have a great time with Verity. I was a little sorry that I didn’t read a few of the road trip free stories available from Seanan Mcguire’s website here before starting this but don’t worry I read them right after so I would have all the details of the 4+ month road trip to get back to Oregon.
Verity and Dominic are living with her family and while they are not nearly as bad as Shelby’s family was to Alex I couldn’t help but feel a little bad that Dominic is still trying to prove himself worthy to join their ranks. This book started out a little slow for me and when Verity is given the opportunity to enter a dance competition as her alter ego Valerie…I’m not going to lie I groaned internally. But let me put your fears to rest. IT WAS AWESOME. And the reason it was awesome is because of her back up ALICE.
Yep this book took off when Grandma Alice showed up. She is the only member of the family to have 2 congregations of mice following her. But that is what happens when you are close to 80 but look 25 because you are an interdimensional bounty hunter trying to find your husband who was sucked into some vortex 60ish years ago. She is fantastic in this and I love her and Verity hanging out together. Especially since if anyone is going to understand turning and marrying an ex-covenant boy it is her.
Grandma Alice isn’t a free-runner; like most of my family, she views my tendency to throw myself off tall buildings as just short of suicidal, although—being her—she also found it sort of adorable. When your grandmother with no sense of self-preservation thinks you’re being cute, maybe it’s time to reconsider your life choices.
Okay so Verity is going to give Valerie (her dance alter ego) one more change in the spot light and then it will be time to tie off the loose ends and kill her off. So she is just going to enjoy the moment and dance for the fun of it but then she finds a few of the voted off contestants dead and that changes everything because someone is trying to call a snake god forth.
(I don’t have much experience with gods, and I don’t want much experience with gods, since people who meet gods tend to wind up pregnant with demigods. Not my idea of a good time.)
Since the stakes have just been raised the family decides that Verity needs a little extra back up and who better than Grandma Alice.
After Alice showed up I couldn’t put the book down. It was intense, fast and fun. Plus there were the mice and as always I love the mice and their sayings and rituals.
“Hail to Verity, the Arboreal Priestess, bride to the God of Hard Choices in Dark Places,” it squeaked. “Today begins the great feast of Dammit, Enid, Where Is That Girl, I Know She Tells You When She’s Sneaking Out. We have come to beg a re-creation.”
I was still partially asleep, and it took me a moment to remember which holiday they were talking about. “Wait—isn’t this the one where Grandma Alice got lost in the woods for almost a whole day, and then wound up at Grandpa Thomas’ house for the first time?”
I adore that as the books go one the mice get more and more page time and get to do more things to help out. I find them one of the best parts of this series.
The ending surprised me, like really surprised me and wow is really all I can say without giving anything away. I didn’t see the series heading in that direction but I’m pretty sure that whatever happens next is going to be just great.
A few other things of interest.
- Another clan of Dragon Princesses that need something from Verity.
- cute Ghoul children at play
- A shark shifter that can walk on land
- Routewitches
- A fight with a giant Snake God.
- chupacabra
- AND newlywed Verity and Dominic. (so totally cute)