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Seanan McGuire

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Dec 11, 2011 Mandapanda rated it really liked it

Shelves: paranormal-romance, urban-fantasy

A fairly light urban fantasy as they go. This series stars Verity Price, a scion of the infamous Price family, 'Cryptozoologists' who protect and police the 'Cryptids' who live among humans. Verity is a reluctant protector. Her passion is ballroom dancing and she's spending a year in New York following her dream to convince her family she can make it work. But a member of the dreaded 'Covenant' (a religious group that desires absolute destruction of all cryptids) comes to town and discovers Veri ...more

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Jun 02, 2012 Arushi rated it really liked it

Shelves: urban-fantasy

This series has been in my TBR pile for quite some time now, mostly because I am a huge fan of Seanan Mcguire's October Daye series. So while I wanted to check it out, the blurb never really got me to do it.

Finally I did and finished the book in one go, one day. Its brilliant. It is not like the October Daye series at all, not just due to the fact that the mythologies are different, but mainly because the tone of the book (set by the narration of the protagonist) is completely different.

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