Tricks for Free
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The seventh book in the funny and fast-paced InCryptid urban fantasy series returns to the mishaps of the Price family, eccentric cryptozoologists who safeguard the world of magical creatures living in secret among humans. Includes an all-new Aeslin mice novella and a map of Lowryland! Penance, noun: 1. Punishment for past actions. 2. An attempt to pay for what can't be bought. 3. See also "exile." Antimony Price is on the run. With the Covenant on her tail and her family still in danger, she needs to get far, far away from anyone who might recognize her--including her own mice. For the first time in a long time, a Price is flying without a safety net. Where do you go when you need to disappear into a crowd without worrying about attracting attention? An amusement park, of course. Some people would call Lowryland the amusement park. It's one of the largest in Florida, the keystone of the Lowry entertainment empire...but for Annie, it's a place to hide. She's just trying to keep her head down long enough to come up with a plan that will get her home without getting anyone killed. No small order when she's rooming with gorgons and sylphs, trying to placate frustrated ghosts, and rushing to get to work on time. Then the accidents begin. The discovery of a dead man brings Annie to the attention of the secret cabal of magic users running Lowryland from behind the scenes. They want the fire that sleeps in her fingers. They want her on their side. They want to help her--although their help, like everything else, comes with a price. No plan. Minimal backup. No way out. Annie's about to get a crash course in the reality behind the pretty facade. If she's lucky, she'll survive the experience.
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12 primary books25 released booksInCryptid
InCryptid is a 25-book series with 13 primary works first released in 2012 with contributions by Seanan McGuire. The next book is scheduled for release on .
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There are people who say you never really escape from high school, you just keep finding it in different forms, over and over again, until it finally kills you. Those people are assholes, and should not be allowed in polite company. That doesn't mean they're wrong.
The room seemed even larger without the safety of the elevator behind me. I took a few hesitant steps forward, wishing I had a knife, or better yet, twenty knives, or better yet, twenty knives and a brick of C-4. Plastic explosives are a strange and dangerous security blanket, but they tend to make whatever's scaring me go away quickly, so I'm in favor.
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Magic for Nothing
Half-Off Ragnorack
I went very still as it struck me that, tight now,l was living like a cryptid. l was hiding from people who wanted to do me harm as much because of who 1 was as because of anything I'd done. That was normal – being a Price meant I‘d had a bounty on my head horn the day l was born – but the isolation that came with it was new. The need to view everyone around me as a potential danger, to hide, it was all new, and it burned. There were dragons working all over Lowryland, and while none of them were part of my personal clique of Mean Girls, none of them knew my name either. It wasn't safe. It might never be safe again, not until we'd found a way to end the danger posed by the Covenant – and that was something we'd been trying to accomplish for generations.
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Chaos Choreography
Magic for Nothing
Lowryland
Whoo! Definitely needed this read after the heaviness of The Poppy War. And yep, it's confirmed: Antimony Price is my favourite of the Price children, and that's due in no small part to what happens in this book. I mean, yeah, Verity and Alex are awesome, but Antimony's just got a special place in my heart thanks to her ambivalent relationship with her siblings. I love the themes of found family we get in this one (that's been in all the books in this series, but it's especially strong in Antimony's arc), as well as the sheer courage that Antimony has to just do the right thing, even if it means she might not ever see her family again before she dies. Also: really, RIDICULOUSLY happy with the romance that Antimony's got going - more so than Verity's romance tbh XD.
If you're a fan of this series, and especially if you love Antimony, then you're deffo gonna love this one. Can't wait for the next book - which, if I've got the pattern right, ought to be the last book in Antimony's arc. Got my fingers crossed that all my faves make it through to the end...
