Midnight Blue-Light Special - Book Review

Midnight Blue-Light Special (InCryptid #2)
by Seanan McGuire

What is it about:
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."

The Price family has spent generations studying the monsters of the world, working to protect them from humanity--and humanity from them. Enter Verity Price. Despite being trained from birth as a cryptozoologist, she'd rather dance a tango than tangle with a demon, and when her work with the cryptid community took her to Manhattan, she thought she would finally be free to pursue competition-level dance in earnest. It didn't quite work out that way...

But now, with the snake cult that was killing virgins all over Manhattan finally taken care of, Verity is ready to settle down for some serious ballroom dancing—until her on-again, off-again, semi-boyfriend Dominic De Luca, a member of the monster-hunting Covenant of St. George, informs her that the Covenant is on their way to assess the city's readiness for a cryptid purge. With everything and everyone she loves on the line, there's no way Verity can take that lying down.

Alliances will be tested, allies will be questioned, lives will be lost, and the talking mice in Verity's apartment will immortalize everything as holy writ--assuming there's anyone left standing when all is said and done. It's a midnight blue-light special, and the sale of the day is on betrayal, deceit...and carnage.

What did I think of it:
I really enjoyed Discount Armageddon, so I pre-ordered this book back in 2012. Once it arrived in March 2013 I managed to let it linger on the shelves though...

But with Seanan McGuire being one of the authors who will be at Worldcon this year, I decided to dig this book up.

And why did I wait this long? This is yet another very cool read. Verity might be rash at times, but she loves her friends and family. Once she knows they're in danger she does everything she can to keep them safe. I loved falling back in this world and getting re-acquainted with the cryptids. I totally loved the Aeslin Mice in the first book and in this one they're back and with a bigger role!

The story is fast paced and both fun and suspenseful. I raced through this book to see if all my favorite characters would make it out alive.

All in all a wonderful read. You bet I'll pick up the next book in this series soon. Luckily it's already somewhere in my TBR as I came across it in a sale a few years ago.

Why should you read it:
It's a fun and very entertaining UF read.


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