Discount Armageddon

By Seanan McGuire
Book One of the InCryptids series


Verity Price isn't your average girl. Nor is she your average monster hunter. Her job is to, rather than exterminate the monsters, study them, protect them, and when necessary keep them from hurting humans. She is a Price girl, and cryptozoology is the family business.
At this point Very is living in New York for a year, trying to prove that ballroom dancing is a viable career option and keeping track of the city's cryptids. Unfortunately, it's never that simple.
Now local cryptids are vanishing, there are lizard men in the sewers, and there are rumors of a dragon sleeping underneath Manhattan. And to top it all off, there is the arrogant, aggravating Covenant operative Dominic De Luca poking about and trying to kill any cryptid he come across, the brainwashed idiot. For the sake of a token attempt at brevity, let's not even get into her boss, the religious mice, her telepathic, math geek, cryptid cousin Sarah, the snake cult trying to wake the dragon, or the attractiveness of the aforementioned brainwashed idiot.
Well, I am certainly glad I picked this book up. The next Toby Daye book doesn't come out until fall, and I've read everything else written by Seanan McGuire several times. Discount Armageddon, along with providing me with a much-needed new book, has hooked me on yet another series. I mean, really, the book is fantastic! Well written, hysterically funny, addictive plot-line and characters, and with fascinating new critters I'd never heard of! Just what I expect from such a good author. As always, loved it, need the next one! Which isn't out yet. Grr...