Incryptid book 8, told by Antimony Price. Annie and her friends have been on the run for what feels like ages now, ever since she had to make a deal with the crossroads to save her life and Sam's. She traded her magic to them as a promissory note and in return, she will have to do something for them when they ask. With a little luck, Cylia (resident jink and luck manipulator) has secured them a lovely little place to call home for a while in a small town in Maine. Unfortunately, that is also where the luck runs out as it's a major spot for people to make deals with the crossroads and their power is strong there. They have no problem finding Annie and letting her know that it's time for her to pay up by killing James Smith, a local wizard, who wants revenge on the crossroads after his best friend disappeared. He is close to finding out their secrets and maybe even a way to destroy them and they will not let them pass unchallenged. To make matters more fun, Leonard Cunningham, aka "Likely Next Leader of the Covenant", has shown up to try and *ahem* persuade Annie to come home with him.
There is a whole lot going on in this book with all these things happening at once and it was an amazing roller coaster ride and while the ending was great, it definitely makes me impatient for the next one to see where this is going. I have a feeling we will be changing narrator but I'm not sure where things will be going from here.
This also included the new short story "Measure of a Monster" about a kidnapping of several gorgon children from a community that Alex and Shelby are near. Of course, they are asked to come look into and there is no way they can turn this case away. Nice little story that seems to be setting up some future stuff and it was really nice to see Sarah a little bit and how she's doing.
Page count: 435p/4,925p ytd/316,130p lifetime
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