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Black as Blood, Blocked, White as a Raven's Wing
by
Seanan McGuire
It is part of the InCryptid #2.1, InCryptid #2.5, InCryptid #2.6 series and is a urban fantasy in eBook edition that was published by the author and has 69 pages.
Other books in this series include [books_series]
Other books by this author which I have reviewed include Rosemary and Rue, A Local Habitation, An Artificial Night, Late Eclipses, One Salt Sea, Discount Armageddon, Home Improvement: Undead Edition, “Never Shines the Sun”, Chimes at Midnight, "In Sea-Salt Tears", Indexing, The Mad Scientist’s Guide to World Domination, Half-Off Ragnarok, Midway Relics and Dying Breeds, Games Creatures Play, The Winter Long, Sparrow Hill Road, The InCryptid Prequels, Pocket Apocalypse, The Ghosts of Bourbon Street, IM, "Good Girls Go to Heaven", A Red Rose Chain, "Full of Briars", Reflections, Once Broken Faith, "Dreams and Slumbers", Shadowed Souls, Chaos Choreography, Magic For Nothing, Indigo, Every Heart a Doorway, Down Among the Sticks and Bones, The Brightest Fell, "Of Things Unknown", Beneath the Sugar Sky, Night and Silence, "Suffer a Sea-change", The Girl in the Green Silk Gown, "The Recitation of the Most Holy and Harrowing Pilgrimage of Mindy and Also Mork", Tricks for Free, That Ain't Witchcraft, "The Measure of a Monster", The Unkindest Tide, "Hope is Swift", Come Tumbling Down, Imaginary Numbers, "Follow the Lady", In an Absent Dream, "The Fixed Stars", "Forbid the Sea", "No Sooner Met", Across the Green Grass Fields, A Killing Frost, "Shine in Pearl", When Sorrows Come, "And with Reveling", "Singing the Comic-Con Blues”, "Candles and Starlight", "Such Dangerous Seas", Sleep No More
It’s three free short stories (PDF, MOBI, and ePUB) that occur between Midnight Blue-Light Special, 2, and Half-Off Ragnarok, 3, in Seanan McGuire’s Incryptid urban fantasy series; see the chronological listing of the InCryptid books on my website for the complete list.
Series:
“Blocked”, 2.1
“Black as Blood”, 2.5
“White as a Raven’s Wing”, 2.6
The Short Stories
“Blocked”
“It’s nice to meet the people we never expected to become.”
It’s a hard life for a young girl, and this is very informative as to why Antimony is such an angry, angry teen, and I cannot blame her. It’s her cousin Elsie who will introduce her to her next love, the viciousness of which fits right in with her childhood upbringing.
“Black as Blood”
It’s the first time Ryan has brought a girl home to meet his family, and he’s tense. He’s tanuki, she’s waheela, and a tanuki must mate and have children to build their species back up after the Covenant massacres.
The story is useful information, but definitely NOT one of my favorites. I suspect it’s that bitch of a mother. It is an interesting introduction to waheela culture.
“White as a Raven’s Wing”
Awww, Ryan asks Izzy to marry him, and she’ll “return the favor” from “Black as Blood” by taking him home to meet her family.
Izzy is so cute, in her big wolf-bear waheela person. Her Lolita-style clothing. Her stilted speech. Her very literal interpretation of anything said to her.
Waheela culture also seems to be very poetic as Izzy goes all mystical at the drop of a hat. It’s a fascinating contrast with waheela culture and Izzy herself. And waheela culture is, well, disgusting is a mild word. Really makes you appreciate what Izzy has done to fit in in New York.
