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The Price family has spent generations studying the monsters of the world, working to protect them from humanity - and humanity from them.

Meet Verity Price. Despite being trained from birth as a cryptozoologist, she'd rather dance a tango than tangle with a demon, and is spending a year in Manhattan to pursue her dream career in professional ballroom dance. That is, until talking mice, telepathic mathematicians, and a tangle with the Price family's old enemies, the Covenant of St. George, get in her way.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Corsair (January 1, 2014)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 368 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1472113136
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1472113139
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 10.4 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.12 x 0.91 x 7.76 inches

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Seanan McGuire is a native Californian, which has resulted in her being exceedingly laid-back about venomous wildlife, and terrified of weather. When not writing urban fantasy (as herself) and science fiction thrillers (as Mira Grant), she likes to watch way too many horror movies, wander around in swamps, record albums of original music, and harass her cats.

Seanan is the author of the October Daye, InCryptid, and Indexing series of urban fantasies; the Newsflesh trilogy; the Parasitology duology; and the "Velveteen vs." superhero shorts. Her cats, Lilly, Alice, and Thomas, are plotting world domination even as we speak, but are easily distracted by feathers on sticks, so mankind is probably safe. For now.

Seanan's favorite things include the X-Men, folklore, and the Black Death. No, seriously. She writes all biographies in the third person, because it's easier that way.

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Ripleygold

A great, solid urban fantasy with sass

Reviewed in the United States on July 31, 2017

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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.

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LA in Dallas

I'm DEFINITELY reading the rest of this series

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The publisher's blurb gives you a pretty good idea of the contents of this novel. It's obvious that they're also trying to suggest, unconvincingly, that the book is funny. Well, here is what I have to say: "Yes, it is funny". Truly delightful.

The central character is Verity Price. And the central premise of the book (indeed, the entire series) is that the world is full of mysterious and sometimes magic creatures like werewolves, dragons, sasquatch, etc, referred to as "cryptids". Most people do not know of or believe in the cryptids. Verity's family members are the premiere experts on cryptids. They also see themselves as protectors of cryptids.. They are opposed by the Covenant of St George, an organization of mostly implacable monster hunters. The Prices and the Covenant have a history that goes way back, but you can read about that. To the extent that it believes in their existence, The Covenant views the Prices as The Enemy.

Because they deal constantly with dangerous cryptids and must also fear the threat of The Covenant, the Price children are brought up as martial arts/self-defense experts. Verity has guns and knives concealed in her scanty clothing at all times and knows how to use them. In a realistic detail, the Price kids lean towards rebellion against the strict family discipline. Verity's clothing is scanty because she wishes to be a professional dancer. She lives in New York, spends as much time as she can in dancing competition, and works as a a cocktail waitress to keep body and soul together. Being a Price is also a career, and she juggles dancing, waiting table, and helping cryptids with difficulty.

What all this description misses is the constant jokes she makes about her life. You can look at my Kindle highlights to get an idea of them, or just READ THE BOOK. Really, it's a gas.

I gather that we will meet other members of the Price family later in the series. I'm particularly looking forward to her little sister, Antimony.

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Never trust a ghoul or a bogeyman...

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I really enjoyed this book.

On first thought, it reminded me a lot of the Anita Black books by Laurell K. Hamilton where humans inhabit a world filled with non-humans (cryptids in this book) however Anita Black, while by vocation a necromancer, functionally she's a detective working with the local police department. Verity Price is is a cryptozoologist, a scientist. In Anita's world, the humans are aware of vampires and lycanthropes and interact at their peril; in Verity's world, the humans for the most part are unaware of the cryptids living among them unless they're members of the Price family or the Covenant of St. George.

I like the character development of Verity, Dominic, and Sarah (who is such a cuckoo). I liked Verity's struggle to prove her compassion for the cryptids of New York City; it will take a life time for her to prove that she's trustworthy (or at least a couple more books).

Verity's life growing up was instructive and made me glad for the family I grew up in as opposed to the Price family.

I quadrupled my knowledge of ballroom dancing (which was non-existent before reading this novel) but I like how the author pointed out that the strength, dexterity, balance, and movement of dancing was similar to that of martial arts. I'm convinced.

The Aeslin mice were a comic element that succeeded far more than Jar Jar Binks or the Ewoks.

The romantic entanglements of Verity and Dominic and William and Candy seemed very plausible.

I'm glad that we're setup for a sequel.

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Mary Heron

An amazing view of the world that is hidden from us humans.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 4, 2017

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A very clever urban fantasy novel. The heroine Verity Price is a cryptozoologist, she comes from a family of them, for four generations they have worked to protect humans and cryptids from each other. Verity lives in New York and has a very busy life she is trying to make a career for herself as a professional ballroom dancer while paying her bills by working in a strip club as a waitress, all that and she also has to patrol the city making sure none of the various supernatural species are making a meal out of any humans, and if they are she has to.deal with them. This is a world with so many magical beings sharing space unknown with modern man, cuckoo's, bogeyman, ghouls, weres, harpys and Dragon princesses to name but a few. Verity is a member of a family who used to be affiliated with the Covenant of Saint George whose members protect humans through the centuries by killing any supernatural beings they come across. Veritys great great grandfather broke away from the Covenant after realising they were killing off whole species whose only crime was that they were different, that not all the Crypids were dangerous to man. Since that time Veritys family has also been hunted by the Covenant which teaches its members that the Price family are traitors to the cause, as a result all members of the family are taught how to defend themselves from childhood and also how to defeat any enemies they may come across. So the book starts on what is a normal day for Verity, a bit of dance, some waitressing and some free running across the rooftops of Manhattan checking in on the supernatural community when she finds herself caught in a snare and swinging by her ankle. Turns out that a member of the Covenant is in town he's here to assess the Cryptid population of Manhattan and if needed order a purge (which is wholesale slaughter of the supernatural community). What follows is a very interesting read with a really amazing group of characters, it's very cleverly written and the world building is excellent. I'm off to get book two. I suggest if you like urban fantasy try the sample.

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Ceiswyn

A perfectly satisfactory example of the genre

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 15, 2021

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If you are already familiar with urban fantasy, you will have read something very like this before. An underworld of strange creatures living side by side with the world we know, check. Some persons or organisations trying to keep them separated and safe, check. Mysterious disappearances and deaths, check.

This is a well written example of the genre, but there is nothing particularly new or inventive about it. Having come to McGuire from her superlative Wayward Children series, I found this disappointingly mediocre by comparison.

The Green Man

Action packed fun

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I nearly didn't buy this, but I'm glad I did. I haven't read any of McGuire's other novels, and the cover makes this look like another stereotypical "kick-ass supernatural heroine with attitude" novel. And while that was great in "Buffy", by now we're up to our necks in them, and most are really rather boring.

Verity Price was an exception for me. She seemed to be genuinely committed to her line of work (or rather, both of them, which produces interesting problems), and she is surrounded by fascinating supporting characters. Even the love interest worked, although it was rather obvious in an "Elizabeth Bennet meets Mr Darcy" kind of way. And McGuire's has managed to create loads of new supernatural species that come to life (as opposed to being the dull chaotic muddle that so often happens when fantasy writers attempt to fabricate a new creature). I think I like the happy religious mice best - but maybe the cuckoo deserves the top spot. Or the princesses.....

My only reservation, curiously enough, is that this is the first of a series. "Discount Armageddon" works very well in its own right; my fear is that it will spawn a host of sequels where the sparkling imagination displayed here becomes tarnished through overuse. I really hope I'm wrong, but it is a common fate with succesful fantasy these days.

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sassb

Delightfully odd but fun unique urban fantasy

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 2, 2012

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I find this book really difficult to explain which is probably unhelpful if you're reading this trying to decide if you should buy the book or not...

I'll start by saying that I love Seanan McGuire, and I'm a huge fan of her October Daye series (starts with Rosemary and Rue, if you're interested!), but I've never read her Mira Grant series and for some reason I was a bit anxious about starting a new on especially as this one seems so odd!

What I've come to love about Seanan McGuire is that she's so unique, and I read alot of urban fantasy so I hope that I'm a good judge of that! I can tell that she's having a huge amount of fun with this book, yet it's just as meticulously researched and well written as her other series.

Verity Price is from a long line of cryptozoologists who make it their business to help keep the cryptids (monsters to you and me) safe and harm free. They will hunt them down and kill them if they go bad, but generally it's all about looking after them. There's a new guy in town and he's hunting the monsters too...

Verity wants to be a ballroom dancer and she has a family of talking mice living in her apartment. This should tell you a bit about the story; it's fun, original, quick paced, interesting and has a little romance too. It's part of a new series and I'll definitely be getting the next book.

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Sina

Verity will dance her way into your heart

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 4, 2012

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Believe it or not, this was my first foray into Urban Fantasy. If other UF titles are like this, I'm eager to read more! I went into this unsure of what to expect, but I came away smiling and satisfied. This was definitely a fun book. The tone of the book is very jokey and light, and there isn't too much depth or emotion except for one scene that got me a little emotional, but this was so enjoyable to read I didn't care. As I said, I haven't read any other UF so correct me if I'm wrong, but the story felt very original to me. Some of the cryptids (monsters) are household names, but a lot seemed to have been made up by McGuire and I loved learning about them all. There's even a little encyclopedia section at the back with a list of the different cryptids which was awesome. McGuire did a great job at World Building here. Sure, it's not a totally fantasy world being set in Manhattan and all, but every cryptid has a really fleshed out history and biology. You could almost believe they're real.

Verity is a pretty great heroine. She rubbed me the wrong way a little at the start. I found her a little cocky, and her way of speaking could get a little grating. Some of her lines bordered on the cheesy side too. I was speaking to someone the other day about how I get annoyed when people in tv shows/movies etc are in life or death situations but they still make all these witty puns which is ridiculous. Yeah, this book had quite a lot of those moments. But whatever, it's fiction. After a while I stopped finding it annoying and got sucked into the action. Verity definitely warmed her way into my heart by the end of the book. She kind of deserves to be cocky because she is bad ass. But I liked that she doesn't always come up top in a situation. She's not perfect and she makes mistakes, like we all do. She also shows a caring side throughout the book with her need to protect the cryptids in the city and her blossoming relationship with the covenant agent, Dominic De Luca. Speaking of Dominic, swoon. Okay, he's a little cliche. He's Italian, for Pete's sake! But hey, I can't help finding a man speaking Italian hot, and I can see a lot of readers falling head over heels for Dominic. He was the perect mix of mischievous and reserved. Seeing him open up and change his views on Cryptids as he worked with Verity was one of my favourite aspects of the book.

I will most definitely be reading the other books in this series and checking out Seanan McGuire's other books. Looks like I've found another genre to empty my wallet on! I give this 4/5.

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