Verity and Dominic's story continues as things get murkier and the Covenant of St George come to town. I enjoyed this book and loved learning more about Sarah, but Verity's devil-may-care attitude is starting to grate.

I am not normally a reader of urban fantasy, I am absolutely enjoying this series so much! The characters are wonderful. The plot is great. These are funny, tense, well-paced books that really suck you in and make you keep turning the pages!

I do not know what was better. The love story between Verity and Dominic, or the awesome cast of cryptid characters. Seanan McGuire had an incredible imagination. I own the 14 books published so far and I look forward to finishing them all.

The writing is clean and inspired. Well written. There is violence in the book but measured and not too graphic. It serves the plot well.

Verity is part of the Price family and they are cryptozoologists and they task themselves with protecting the monsters in Manhattan from the zealous Covenant, who believe that all monsters and creatures must be eliminated.

I liked Sarah the best and I look forward when she is the protagonist of future books. As it is, she gets a few chapters in this book in the first person. She is the most complex character in the book.

4 stars. This second book in the InCryptid series really wanted me to give it a 5 star with how much it made me cry at the end while going 70 mph on the highway, but unfortunately I have to dock a star because of the messy plotting and weird POV switching in the middle. In this book, we follow the middle child of the Price family again as she now is dealing with their old enemy, the Covenant of St. George, arriving in Manhattan to do a purge, while navigating her complicated relationship with her boyfriend and her interesting family dynamics and, of course, the talking mice that worship her. This is an awesome, exciting, and super fun follow-up to the first book of the series, brought down only by the fact that McGuire needed an editor to hold her feet to the fire with that second act and tell her to give things a better progression of tension, but even so it's brought together really well at the end. I do think some people may not like the climax here, but I thought it was actually pretty fun and an inversion of the usual urban fantasy "big final battle" trope—but I do think everyone will enjoy the denouement because it's great and sad and wonderful.

Anyway, read InCryptid, it's a great and super fun urban fantasy series about a family of cryptozoologists.

Seanan McGuire has created a complex structure of interlocking stories. In duets or trilogies, we see the world from a particular viewpoint, and continue to widen the perils and scope of the world. I'm giving Incryptid my first place vote for best series in the 2025 Hugos. No other nominee is expanding and informing the idea of a series as well as she is.

Hey, remember that purge of Manhattan we were worried about in the previous book? Well, the Covenant's decided it's go time, and one of the people they've sent is a distant cousin of our narrator.

We get to meet a few new members of Verity's family, not just the cousin with a grudge, and we're looking to get to see even more in the next book - there are several we've heard from over the phone, but haven't seen in person yet, and we'll presumably get to meet them in person as the series continues. The uncertainty involving what all is going to happen and whose side Dominic is really on does a good job of keeping the story moving; the book does do something that I generally think is a bad idea - namely, having multiple first-person perspectives in the same entry in a series - but McGuire mostly makes it work. It helps that the POV switches are fairly well-signposted.

I'm sad it took me so long to get back to this series, because this was a fun book. The plot is fast paced, the characters are great, and I love the mice. I also like this world with the variety of cryptids - I wish I lived close to the ones that bake :)

The second book in the InCryptid series delivers very well. Verity Price is back to defending her family and friends from the Covenant. And her family and friends do a great job of returning the favor. This book is wonderfully laden with sentient non-humans with magical abilities, adventure, suspense, action, humor, and romance. It was really hard to put this book down... Thank you Seanan!

I thank the author and publisher for kindly sharing an electronic review copy of this enjoyable work!

Again, these books feel like cotton candy for my brain. I'm not sure if they're "good" but they do bring me a fair amount of joy to zoom through. thanks to the publishers + worldcon for the access!!