Aftermarket Afterlife (InCryptid, #13) in Girls, Guns and Grimoires

Mar 05, 2024 Chrissy rated it it was amazing

Saying that I enjoyed this latest InCryptid book feels weird, but I really did enjoy it. I enjoyed being emotionally scarred by it. The war with the Covenant is well and truly under way now, and there are losses, as in major character deaths. And while I wouldn't count the characters we lost among the ones I was most attached to, reading about their deaths and the family's grief really hurt. A lot.

The narrator for this one is Mary Dunlavy, and her POV was the perfect one for this book. Her ghost ...more

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May 18, 2025 Amyiw rated it it was ok

Shelves: series, fantasy-uf, thinking-next, outlier, paranormal, overdrive, od, 2025

First read by audiobook on Libby from library, no novella of Verity at the end was included.

"Dreaming of You in Freefall" is a ~50 page novella that is included only in some editions of Aftermarket Afterlife. It was not included with my Libby audio book from the library. I only knew about it from reading reviews from others. I then took the ebook out from Libby and it was in the ebook from the library but I noticed that none of the friends that had reviews from their Netgally ARC had any mention First read by audiobook on Libby from library, no novella of Verity at the end was included.

"Dreaming of You in Freefall" is a ~50 page novella that is included only in some editions of Aftermarket Afterlife. It was not included with my Libby audio book from the library. I only knew about it from reading reviews from others. I then took the ebook out from Libby and it was in the ebook from the library but I noticed that none of the friends that had reviews from their Netgally ARC had any mention of the novella. I just finished the novella and would rate it a 4-4 1/2 as it was really good but it SHOULD NOT be read before this book if you don't like spoilers as it spoils my first spoiler below. If you don't mind spoilers, go ahead. Since there is no book created (as this has no way to purchase it separately yet), I review it here after reading it on 7/10/2025, several months after reading Aftermarket's train wreck (IMO). The novella would have made that rating maybe have gone to a 3? Verity goes to see the dragons and ends up helping them with a covenant problem. This was really really good and gives hope (view spoiler) and for perhaps winning the war. Glad I read it as I didn't know about it, and then wasn't really looking forward to it. Very glad to get it from the Libby ebook.

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Wow, I had to put this down after (Big Spoiler)(view spoiler) This is quite a bit in and we are now coming to Artie/Arthur issue and I think that is going to be expanded further in so really interested there. Nope we only get the anger of others. Still, I had to step away and not happy with that twist but will read on soon... I lost my bookmark.

So, hmm... this is like a look into where all our characters are though there are big happenings as they are being attacked on all fronts so now Sarah and Mary, our FMC and the ghost babysitter, are moving back and forth trying to help and save people. There is a major death and this is not the HFN that we are used to in these books along with a romantic element. We don't have that at all. So they figure out what they want to do to fight back and we get a bit more of how Mary is allow/able to travel and be. Then... it ends. It is a taste of the family and a fight that is all over the place and there is death, a major step of Incryptid,(view spoiler) So we get questions and understand that it worked out. huh. We also know Mary's thoughts and decision and where she came from.

I wasn't happy with the book but it was OK but not particularly good, so I'm giving it a 2. Really, I was mostly bored. ...more

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