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Discount Armageddon - (Incryptid Novels) by Seanan McGuire (Paperback)

Discount Armageddon - (Incryptid Novels) by  Seanan McGuire (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>The Price family has spent generations studying the monsters of the world, working to protect them from humanity--and humanity from them. Enter Verity Price. Despite being trained from birth as a cryptozoologist, she'd rather dance a tango than tangle with a demon, and is spending a year in Manhattan while she pursues her career in professional ballroom dance. Original.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b>First book in <i>New York Times</i>-bestselling Seanan McGuire's witty urban fantasy InCryptid series about a family of cryptozoologists who act as a buffer between humans and the magical creatures living in secret around us.<br></b><br>The only thing more fun than an October Daye book is an InCryptid book. --<b>Charlaine Harris</b>, #1 <i>New York Times</i>-bestselling author of Sookie Stackhouse series <p/><b>Cryptid, noun</b> Any creature whose existence has not yet been proven by science. See also Monster. <p/><b>Crytozoologist, noun</b> Any person who thinks hunting for cryptids is a good idea. See also idiot. <p/> Ghoulies. Ghosties. Long-legged beasties. Things that go bump in the night... <p/>The Price family has spent generations studying the monsters of the world, working to protect them from humanity--and humanity from them. <p/>Enter Verity Price. Despite being trained from birth as a cryptozoologist, she'd rather dance a tango than tangle with a demon, and is spending a year in Manhattan while she pursues her career in professional ballroom dance. Sounds pretty simple, right? <p/>It would be, if it weren't for the talking mice, the telepathic mathematicians, the asbestos supermodels, and the trained monster-hunter sent by the Price family's old enemies, the Covenant of St. George. When a Price girl meets a Covenant boy, high stakes, high heels, and a lot of collateral damage are almost guaranteed. <p/>To complicate matters further, local cryptids are disappearing, strange lizard-men are appearing in the sewers, and someone's spreading rumors about a dragon sleeping underneath the city...<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>Praise for the <i>InCryptid </i>series: <p/>The only thing more fun than an October Daye book is an InCryptid book. <b>Swift narrative, charm, great world-building</b>...all the McGuire trademarks. --Charlaine Harris, #1 <i>New York Times</i>-bestselling author of the Sookie Stackhouse series <p/>[<i>Half-Off Ragnarok</i>] is kind of like <b>taking a tour through a very deadly theme park made up of alternating parts awesome and terrifying</b>. Come to think of it, that sums up this series quite nicely.... This book effectively acts as a jumping-on point to those just coming in. --Tor.com <p/><i>Half-Off Ragnarok</i> is my favorite book in the InCryptid series thus far.... If <b>urban fantasy, intriguing animals, and fast-paced adventure</b> is your thing, you're going to love <i>Half-Off Ragnarok</i>. Highly recommended. --Jennifer Brozek <p/>McGuire <b>creates a sense of wonder and playfulness with her love for mythology and folklore</b>.... Her enthusiastic and fast-paced style makes this an entertaining page-turner. --<i>Publishers Weekly <p/></i>A <b>funny, fast-paced and genuinely suspenseful adventure</b> that is sure to engross and entertain.... There is still a wide world for the intrepid Price family to explore, much to readers' guaranteed delight.<b> --</b><i>RT Reviews<br></i><br>While chock-full of <b>quality worldbuilding, realistic characters, and a double helping of sass</b>, at its core, <i> Half-Off Ragnarok</i> is a book about judging others according to stereotypes, how nurture can overcome nature, and the importance of family. --Ranting Dragon<b><i><br></i></b><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Seanan McGuire </b>is a Washington State-based author with a strong penchant for travel and can regularly be found just about anyplace capable of supporting human life (as well as a few places that probably aren't). Early exposure to a vast number of books left her with a lifelong affection for the written word, and led, perhaps inevitably, to her writing books of her own, starting somewhere around the age of eleven. The <i>October Daye </i>novels are her first urban fantasy series, and the <i>InCryptid</i> novels are her second series, both published by DAW and both of which have put her in the<i> New York Times </i>bestseller list. Seanan was the winner of the 2010 John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer; <i>Rosemary and Rue</i>, the first novel in the <i>October Daye </i>series, was named one of the Top 20 Paranormal Fantasy Novels of the Past Decade; and her novel <i>Feed</i>, written under the name Mira Grant, was named as one of <i>Publishers Weekly's </i>Best Books of 2010. She also won a Hugo for her podcast, and is the first person to be nominated for five Hugo Awards in a single year. You can visit her at www.seananmcguire.com.

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