Paperback, 448 pages
Published Jan. 3, 2020 by DAW.
Sarah Zellaby has always been in an interesting position. Adopted into the Price family at a young age, she’s never been able to escape the biological reality of her origins: she’s a cuckoo, a telepathic ambush predator closer akin to a parasitic wasp than a human being. Friend, cousin, mathematician; it’s never been enough to dispel the fear that one day, nature will win out over nurture, and everything will change.
Maybe that time has finally come.
After spending the last several years recuperating in Ohio with her adoptive parents, Sarah is ready to return to the world–and most importantly, to her cousin Artie, with whom she has been head-over-heels in love since childhood. But there are cuckoos everywhere, and when the question of her own survival is weighed against the survival of her family, Sarah’s choices all add up to one inescapable conclusion.
This is war. Cuckoo vs. Price, …
Sarah Zellaby has always been in an interesting position. Adopted into the Price family at a young age, she’s never been able to escape the biological reality of her origins: she’s a cuckoo, a telepathic ambush predator closer akin to a parasitic wasp than a human being. Friend, cousin, mathematician; it’s never been enough to dispel the fear that one day, nature will win out over nurture, and everything will change.
Maybe that time has finally come.
After spending the last several years recuperating in Ohio with her adoptive parents, Sarah is ready to return to the world–and most importantly, to her cousin Artie, with whom she has been head-over-heels in love since childhood. But there are cuckoos everywhere, and when the question of her own survival is weighed against the survival of her family, Sarah’s choices all add up to one inescapable conclusion.
This is war. Cuckoo vs. Price, human vs. cryptid…and not all of them are going to walk away.
See, I was expecting a cliffhanger. I was not expecting a cliffhanger that would make me NOT STOP READING AND BUY #10 PAST MIDNIGHT. :D
And then it came tumbling down.
Overall, I liked the InCryptid series. It's light pulp, but entertaining, and hearthy. I love the cuckoos. I was looking forward to a Sarah book. But this... wasn't it.
Plotting was clumsy and it suffered very severely from being too long. I had to struggle to get through this book. It wasn't bad, I mean, I've read much worse. But it wasn't on par with the previous books.
In fact, I'm so disappointed with this book, that I won't be buying the sequel as an e-book (audible version isn't out yet in my country), despite the cliffhanger (I hate cliffhangers in books, btw).
