08-16-2022, 09:40 AM
Also to be found in the Seanan McGuire/Mira Grant Thread
Spelunking Through Hell by Seanan McGuire
Another adventure in the InCryptid Series. I'm glad McGuire has this series that are all about the Price/Healey family and she keeps using different characters to narrate her books. Because of that each character doesn't have to spend the first quarter of the book catching everyone up like happens in the Tobey Daye series. And they seem to be funnier, although in this story Alice Price has a lot in common with Tobey Daye.
Alice is the crazy grandmother who has popped up or been name checked in the previous 10 books in the series. Alice has been hunting her husband for over fifty years after he was stolen away by the Crossroads. This time she goes on adventure that finally has a chance of actually finding Thomas Price and maybe bringing him back. There are plenty of science fiction elements to the story as Alice crosses dimensions on her quest. But there is a lot of woo-woo stuff as we talk about souls of planets and universes. It made me drift off when she got to those parts.
But the action is quick. The world building is good. She doesn't waste a lot of time filling us in, which is a blessing. It's kind of fun mapping McGuire's real life into the characters in the book. She does a lot of self therapy I think in her writing. I could do with a little less of the build your own family trope. But again, therapy. And she didn't leave the book on cliff hanger for a change. Although I thought that was were she was heading, but McGuire hurried through the last few chapters to wrap things up.
And there was a novella at the end that walked through how Alice and Thomas finally got together.
I'll say I enjoyed this more than the last Tobey novel.
Spelunking Through Hell by Seanan McGuire
Another adventure in the InCryptid Series. I'm glad McGuire has this series that are all about the Price/Healey family and she keeps using different characters to narrate her books. Because of that each character doesn't have to spend the first quarter of the book catching everyone up like happens in the Tobey Daye series. And they seem to be funnier, although in this story Alice Price has a lot in common with Tobey Daye.
Alice is the crazy grandmother who has popped up or been name checked in the previous 10 books in the series. Alice has been hunting her husband for over fifty years after he was stolen away by the Crossroads. This time she goes on adventure that finally has a chance of actually finding Thomas Price and maybe bringing him back. There are plenty of science fiction elements to the story as Alice crosses dimensions on her quest. But there is a lot of woo-woo stuff as we talk about souls of planets and universes. It made me drift off when she got to those parts.
But the action is quick. The world building is good. She doesn't waste a lot of time filling us in, which is a blessing. It's kind of fun mapping McGuire's real life into the characters in the book. She does a lot of self therapy I think in her writing. I could do with a little less of the build your own family trope. But again, therapy. And she didn't leave the book on cliff hanger for a change. Although I thought that was were she was heading, but McGuire hurried through the last few chapters to wrap things up.
And there was a novella at the end that walked through how Alice and Thomas finally got together.
I'll say I enjoyed this more than the last Tobey novel.
As a matter of fact, my anger does keep me warm