Pocket Apocalypse

InCryptid, Book 4

De: Seanan McGuire

Narrado por: Ray Porter

Alexander Price has survived gorgons, basilisks, and his own family - no small feat considering that his family includes two telepaths, a reanimated corpse, and a colony of talking, pantheistic mice. Still, he's starting to feel like he's got the hang of things - at least until his girlfriend, Shelby Tanner, shows up asking pointed questions about werewolves and the state of his passport. From there it's just a hop, a skip, and a jump to Australia, a continent filled with new challenges, new dangers, and yes, rival cryptozoologists who don't like their "visiting expert" very much.

Australia is a cryptozoologist's dream, filled with unique species and unique challenges. Unfortunately it's also filled with Shelby's family, who aren't delighted by the length of her stay in America. And then there are the werewolves to consider: infected killing machines who would like nothing more than to claim the continent as their own. The continent which currently includes Alex.

Survival is hard enough when you're on familiar ground. Alex Price is very far from home, but there's one thing he knows for sure: he's not going down without a fight.

©2015 Seanan McGuire (P)2015 Audible Inc.

great story wonderfuly read!

great story, read wonderfully read! love all her books. the only sad part is having to wait for the next one!

Interesting story despite Aussi stereotypes

It was a fairly decent story. While the author clearly knows no more than stereotypes about Australia - eg everyone eating mutton stew - it was mostly saved by completely ignoring real Australia and focusing on the authors "cryptids" and the"36 society". I did cringe a bit at the mention of the TSA in an Australian airport - TSA is not the generic term for any airport security. I would like to see more InCryptid books set in Australia but the author really needs both early Australian input and proofreaders and preferably at least an Australian holiday first. Regardless it is a good book and I would recommend it and will probably listen to it again.

Another great Cryptid Adventure

Out of all the Price children Alex is my favorite. His story was the first I read in the series and I love his unique scientific approach to things that his sisters lack. Hope to read another Cryptid book staring Alex in the future.

awesome

this like the others in this series totally rocked
an amazing entertaining read/listen
couldn't stop til it was all done

Good, but with rocks to steer around

I continue to greatly enjoy this series. I'm glad I bought this book and I'll listen to it again, no doubt. It has the same great characters, interesting world, fast moving action, and elevating humor of all the others. Unfortunately, it also has one theme that gets such repetitious and weighty treatment it nearly becomes a stumbling block, making it harder and harder to relate to the supporting cast of characters, unique to this volume so far, and thereby harder to care about the outcome of the story arc. At times I found myself wanting the main characters to abandon the mission. I won't say it lacked realism in this expression, but it became excessive. This did not prevent the book from reaching a fine and satisfying ending. I am greatly looking forward to more books in the series!

The reader delivers another fine performance, pushing me to look for other audiobooks read by him.