Midnight Blue-Light Special

InCryptid, Book 2

By: Seanan McGuire

Narrated by: Emily Bauer

Length: 10 hrs and 56 mins

Publisher's summary

Cryptid, noun:

1. Any creature whose existence has been suggested but not proven scientifically. Term officially coined by cryptozoologist John E. Wall in 1983.

2. That thing that's getting ready to eat your head.

3. See also: "monster."

The Price family has spent generations studying the monsters of the world, working to protect them from humanity - and humanity from them. Enter Verity Price. Despite being trained from birth as a cryptozoologist, she'd rather dance a tango than tangle with a demon, and when her work with the cryptid community took her to Manhattan, she thought she would finally be free to pursue competition-level dance in earnest. It didn't quite work out that way...

But now, with the snake cult that was killing virgins all over Manhattan finally taken care of, Verity is ready to settle down for some serious ballroom dancing - until her on-again, off-again, semi-boyfriend Dominic De Luca, a member of the monster-hunting Covenant of St. George, informs her that the Covenant is on their way to assess the city's readiness for a cryptid purge. With everything and everyone she loves on the line, there's no way Verity can take that lying down.

Alliances will be tested, allies will be questioned, lives will be lost, and the talking mice in Verity's apartment will immortalize everything as holy writ - assuming there's anyone left standing when all is said and done. It's a midnight blue-light special, and the sale of the day is on betrayal, deceit...and carnage.

©2013 Seanan McGuire (P)2013 Audible, Inc.

Mispronunciations peppered the story

Loved the story, but was taken out of it by the frequent mispronunciations. Get this woman a dictionary!

Weird mistakes in narration

Love this book and this series. The audiobooks need better editorial work though; there are some misspeaks (princess instead of priestess, etc) that are not in the print versions.

This book is awesome

Love this story. Very enjoyable , the narrator is enjoyable to listen to. Can't wait to start the next one.

well that was an emotional rollercoaster

holy cow I finished this in a day and honestly I'm surprised I was able to work at all with how tense I was. I still hate this narrator (sorry) but I do LOVE the Wahela

Give a listen

I read this when it came out, and now have the audio version because I love it so much, as with all of Seanan McGuire's books. The story is suspenseful and interesting, the characters are fun and sympathetic. Give the series a try, though do start with the first book. The reader wasn't the best -- she was ok, but she mispronounced a great many words and occasionally substituted a word that sounded similar but was otherwise unrelated.

Excellent female leads!!

seanan McGuire is a top notch first-person story teller willing to break stereotypes to create an entertaining world.

Her female characters don't need male protectors because THEY are the protectors.

Enjoyable with plot lag in the middle

Lots of planning to set up one capture and confrontation...forst third is just characters panicking. Also, what's with the protagonists inability to plan?? Like no counter offensive or traps or anything. Ironically, nonhuman Sarah turned out to be a much more relatable MC.

Great lighthearted Urban Fantasy

The story was good and the narration is excellent. A perfect quick weekend read. Would definitely recommend.

maybe I'm getting used to the narrator?

overall, I felt like there wasn't as big a discrepancy between the narration and the story as there was in the last book. Both were pretty good. So far, this series doesn't hold a candle to the October Daye books, but it's early in the series, so I'm absolutely willing to keep listening!

Love this series, however . . .

The narrator, in most capacities, is quite good. Her voice matches the character, she’s got all the emotions down, BUT . . . she regularly mispronounces words. Hilariously so. I didn’t get all of them down, b/c it took a few for me to realize it was a pattern, not an isolated incident, but a couple of my favorites were pie-son-ic for psionic, and CAR-bin-er for carabiner.

Other than that it was very good. Just be prepared to stop and scratch your head once an hour or so.