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).
Human morality is only absolute because the humans won the war to see who would be the dominant species of this planet. We live by the moral and ethical standards of a species whose dominion is built on bones.
InCryptid has never been my favorite out of all Seanan McGuire's series, but I've found it enjoyable. The Antimony books in particular pulled me in. At this point, however, I'm finding myself a bit... fatigued?
On one hand, this book had plenty of cool stuff. All the family dynamics between some of my favorite characters, getting to finally learn more about Cuckoos, the mathematical descriptions (I'm the opposite of a math person, but I love watching how mathematically inclined minds work)—plenty to love! At its core, however, it was the same story I've already read by McGuire, within the same series and beyond. Nature vs nurture, what is a monster, the …
Human morality is only absolute because the humans won the war to see who would be the dominant species of this planet. We live by the moral and ethical standards of a species whose dominion is built on bones.
