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Seanan McGuire
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Just when Sarah Zellaby, adopted Price cousin and telepathic ambush predator, thought that things couldn't get worse, she's had to go and prove herself wrong. After being kidnapped and manipulated by her birth family, she has undergone a transformation called an instar, reaching back to her Apocritic origins to metamorphize. While externally the same, she is internally much more powerful, and much more difficult to control.
Even by herself. After years of denial, the fact that she will always be a cuckoo has become impossible to deny.
Now stranded in another dimension with a handful of allies who seem to have no idea who she is - including her cousin Annie and her maybe-boyfriend Artie, both of whom have forgotten their relationship - and a bunch of cuckoos with good reason to want her dead, Sarah must figure out not only how to contend with her situation, but with the new realities of her future. What is she now? Who is she now? Is that person someone she can live with?
And when all is said and done, will she be able to get the people she loves, whether or not they've forgotten her, safely home?
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The Outsider
- Roswell High Series, Book 1
- By: Melinda Metz
- Narrated by: Kevin T. Collins
- Length: 4 hrs and 41 mins
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He's not like other guys. Liz has seen him around school. It's hard to miss Max - the tall, blond, blue-eyed senior stands out among all the other students at Roswell High. So why is he such a loner? Max is in love with Liz. He loves the way her eyes light up when she laughs and the way her long, black hair moves when she turns her head. Most of all, he loves to imagine what it would be like to kiss her. But he knows he can't get too close. He can't risk her discovering the truth about who he is - or what he is....Because the truth could kill her.
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The reader ruined it for me.
- By courtney callum on 04-02-19
By: Melinda Metz
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Game Changer
- By: Neal Shusterman
- Narrated by: Andrew Eiden, Jennifer Jill Araya
- Length: 10 hrs and 3 mins
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An explosive new novel by the author of the National Book Award-winning Challenger Deep and the New York Times best-selling Arc of a Scythe series, about the limited ways we see our world - and how a jolt out of the ordinary can upend the universe.
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mind expanding questions are asked and explored.
- By Klok Fixer on 02-11-21
By: Neal Shusterman
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Blink
- A Paragon Society Novella
- By: David Delaney
- Narrated by: Matt Godfrey
- Length: 2 hrs and 48 mins
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Fireball blasting battle-mages, shapeshifting soccer moms, and a best friend who is more than happy to throw punches now and ask questions later-Wyatt Murphy is in for a supernatural thrill ride of reality-bending proportions.
By: David Delaney
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Lock and Key
- Nocturne Academy, Book 1
- By: Evangeline Anderson
- Narrated by: Riley Barrett
- Length: 12 hrs and 38 mins
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Since I started school at Nocturne Academy, strange happenings have befallen me. The weird key-shaped necklace I found at a flea market chokes me every time I try to take it off. Also, a tall, blindingly beautiful and bitingly sarcastic Nocturne has the lock that matches it. His name is Griffin Darkheart, and - like this freaking necklace - I can't seem to stay away from him, though he's being Censured for mysterious crimes.
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- By Anonymous User on 09-16-20
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- Tammy Moldovan
- 04-20-21
A great end to Sarah’s story
This is book 10 in the Incryptid series. While each book can be read as a standalone, these books are best read in order. The previous book in the series, book 9, Imaginary Numbers, ends on a cliffhanger - a number of the main characters are suddenly in another dimension- which is where this story begins. Therefore, to enjoy this book to the fullest, you should really read Imaginary Numbers. As in most of the books for this series, Emily Bauer is once again the narrator and she does a fantastic job bringing the story to life. This story is told from Sarah Zellerby’s (a non-human) perspective. Sarah’s species is colloquially called a cuckoo because cuckoo mothers place their infants in other family’s homes to be raised by them, much like cuckoo birds do. Sarah is not like most cuckoos who are normally telepathic murdering sociopaths. Sarah was found as a child by Angela Baker after the accidental death of her first “real” parents. Since Angela is also a cuckoo, though she is a non-receptive telepath and as a consequence is fairly harmless, she removed the murdering time bomb in Sarah’s head before it could go off at adolescence turning her into a murdering sociopath and raised her to be more human and less cuckoo. Sarah was raised with her “cousins”, Verity, Alex, Annie, Elsie, and Artie. Sarah’s family are the Prices who believe incryptids (non-humans) who are not harmful to humans or other species should be protected. Sarah and Artie (an incubus), have been in love with each other for decades but never acted on it. The book begins with Sarah, Artie, Annie, James (a newly “adopted” adult Price sibling), and Mark, another cuckoo, on an Iowa college campus that has been transported to another dimension with an orange sky with giant millipedes flying in it. Sarah is tied to a chair, the others do not remember Sarah and therefore believe she is a regular telepathic murdering sociopathic cuckoo and the cause of the current problems. The reason they do not remember Sarah is that she inadvertently erased their memories of her while using their brains (along with thousands of cuckoo’s brains) to process a complex, massive equation that was supposed to destroy the earth, transport all of the cuckoos to a new dimension, and kill Sarah in the process. Sarah thwarted the world ending part of the equation but as a result, transported the campus to a new dimension, and erased their memories of her. This book follows the group as they struggle with not remembering Sarah while trying to figure out how to get themselves and the campus transported back to earth and not dying in the process. I loved the story and the interplay amongst the characters as they navigate their memory gaps, the strange and sometimes dangerous creatures in this dimension, mindless zombie cuckoos, and Sarah’s grief over her lost family and her guilt over being forced to solve the equation. This book, like all the books in this series, made me laugh, cry, gasp, and grit my teeth. The book concluded Sarah’s story arc beautifully but left enough unresolved issues to allow plenty of room for more Incryptid books starring the Price family. And the possibility of more Price books is a fantastic thing.
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- Lallatwittle
- 11-30-23
Enjoyable Installment
Overall the book is enjoyable, though I think that the author's main characters (in this series at least) are written to sound mostly the same. When a character is a side character, they get a different writing approach.
Have enjoyed the series, and this was an interesting foray and I truly liked the way that the author explored what it means to be human versus what it would mean to be a different species. It reminds me of conversations that I have had around the gaming table.
Enjoyable popcorn level reading.
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- Chuck Donahue
- 08-18-21
Family isn't blood...
Family isn't blood, it's who you choose to surround yourself with.
Just that prevailing idea throughout the book wove a clear clean thread as the story began where Imaginary Numbers ended. Our group of family, friends, and heros trapped in a different dimension. Even though Antimony, James, Artie, and Mark have forgotten who she is and though it is partly her fault blame her for their current situation. Rather than spoil the book for any readers I will say that idea of who makes up a family, trust, and love feature heavily throughout. Greg, is a character I nwould tell all readers to look out for, he is amazing!
The only reason that I didn't give Ms McGuire 5stars on this even though it read well, is it seems like the end was just rushed. Like everything was shoved in the last few chapters and the end felt way to convenient. It just felt like it needed more to understand how and why the ending occured the way it did, and how Sarah could arrive at the solution at the end without knowing some key pieces. *shrugs* I hope that exceptable to folks without giving away to much. If I sound vague, you'll understand after you read it and then we'll have something to talk about. 😁
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- janet
- 03-13-21
So Good!
As always, this world feels like home and with every book I am more invested. I recommend it whole heartedly
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- Elle Morgan
- 01-19-24
Slow Starter
Took a while to amp up but when it did its all action. Still a great story and the performance is stellar as always. Overall it did feel like a book to get through to get to the next.
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- Emmy
- 02-08-24
only Seanan McGuire could make me love a giant spider
I absolutely love all of the InCryptid series, and this is no exception. Emily Bauer is a fantastic narrator, giving the characters all their own distinct sounds without sounding like she's "doing a voice" if that makes sense. (And she's great at the mice, too!)
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- Stephen Mandiberg
- 07-06-21
wonderfully read
Having finished a few duds recently it was great to return to incryptids to be reminded what good reading is. Perfect intonation really brings out the book’s tone. The story itself was good, but nothing new. A decent finish to the previous few, but not that mind blowing.
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- daunetullina
- 03-17-21
Best in Series!
I think Sarah is my favorite voice in this series. it's an awesome read, lots of edge of you seat moments as well as laugh out loud moments. The narration is excellent too.
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- kimbacaffeinate
- 04-05-21
“Hail the Calculating Priestess!”
I was so excited to get back to Sarah’s story after the cliffhanger ending of Imaginary Numbers. Emily Bauer narrates the series except for Pocket Apocalypse, which features Alexander Price’s point of view. Emily does a fantastic job of giving voice to these characters and setting the tone. Listening is pure joy.
Sarah Zellaby, adopted cousin of the Price family and resident Cuckoo, was kidnapped by her birth family, and underwent a transformation called an instar, all so the cuckoo’s could travel to another dimension. Sarah did her best to stop them, but was transported to the new dimension along with Annie, Archie, and others. Only none of them know who she is. Can Sarah get them to trust her and get them back home?
I am not a fan of math, but can appreciate the awe of it and the calculations Sarah performs. While it was exciting to see some Price family and friends with her, it was so hard realizing what happened, particularly with Artie. He was mean to her and Sarah struggles with the emotional loss. I spent time worrying on how McGuire was going to fix this. Can she fix this? She had better fix this. *stomps foot*
Eep! Only McGuire could make me warm and fuzzy about a spider. That’s all I am saying. We learn so much about Sarah and her species. It was intense with giant bugs and ah, err, zombies? Well, sort of. You’ll see. We meet the indigenous people of this dimension, which proved very interesting.
We learn more about Grandma Alice. McGuire loves to tease us with tidbits. While groups of books focus on one of character, I highly recommend you listen/read this series in the order of their release. This story contains major spoilers and history. It has it all danger, romance, intense battle scenes and more.
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- Kindle Customer
- 03-12-22
oh so very good
I love the characters. I love the action. This so much great fun
The performance is fantastic.
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