Reece Talks

SYPNOSIS

The eighth book in the funny and fast-paced InCryptid urban fantasy series returns to the mishaps of the Price family, eccentric cryptozoologists who safeguard the world of magical creatures living in secret among humans.

Crossroads, noun:

1. A place where two roads cross.

2. A place where bargains can be made.

3. See also “places to avoid.”

Antimony Price has never done well without a support system. As the youngest of her generation, she has always been able to depend on her parents, siblings, and cousins to help her out when she’s in a pinch—until now. After fleeing from the Covenant of St. George, she’s found herself in debt to the crossroads and running for her life. No family. No mice. No way out.

Lucky for her, she’s always been resourceful, and she’s been gathering allies as she travels: Sam, fūri trapeze artist turned boyfriend; Cylia, jink roller derby captain and designated driver; Fern, sylph friend, confidant, and maker of breakfasts; even Mary, ghost babysitter to the Price family. Annie’s actually starting to feel like they might be able to figure things out—which is probably why things start going wrong again.

New Gravesend, Maine is a nice place to raise a family…or make a binding contract with the crossroads. For James Smith, whose best friend disappeared when she tried to do precisely that, it’s also an excellent place to plot revenge. Now the crossroads want him dead and they want Annie to do the dirty deed. She owes them, after all.

And that’s before Leonard Cunningham, aka, “the next leader of the Covenant,” shows up…

It’s going to take everything Annie has and a little bit more to get out of this one. If she succeeds, she gets to go home. If she fails, she becomes one more cautionary tale about the dangers of bargaining with the crossroads.

But no pressure.

REVIEW

It was nice to read some more stories about Antimoni Price, At first it was a little annoying when she kept going on about being the youngest Price and that nothing much was expected of her and blah blah blah but eventually that stopped and we got to see more of the smart and a little ruthless Annie Price.

We find out what the crossroads want in order for Annie to fulfil her bargain and Annie decides that it’s not something she wants to do not even when being threatened by ghosts and tortured by the crossroads. She still has a backbone and not even the threat of being tortured would make her do their bidding of killing fellow sorcerer James.

We find out more about Annie and how she tried looking into her powers which helped her to help James find more information on his, with the help of James journal they manage to come up with a plan to defeat the crossroads. All this is happening while Leonard Cunningham is hot on Annie’s trail and is also is Maine, with some negotiation and and some not very idle threats Annie and Leonard come to an agreement to take down the crossroads together.

No one is really happy to work with someone from the covenant but they all agree that it will benefit them in the long run, it was fun to find out that Leonard isn’t as tough as he tries to be, there were instances in this boom when it seems that what Annie and the gang just take for the norm everyday may be a bit much for him and was even worst when he had to be a pawn and distract Bethany.

Annie shows that she can be the bigger person and doesn’t hold Leonard being the enemy against him, well not too much but she does invite them into their temporary accommodation and even feeds him so that’s something atleast and hey she gets a year free from the covenant searches as per her bargain with Leonard so atleast she can go home and see her family and hopefully get back her little colony of Aselin Mice.

Now i just have to wait until the next boom to find out what happens in the Incryptid world.

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Agents of sheild is back folks and it begins with Fitz still in cryo in space and then his ship is torn in half... we already know he survives it’s just a wonder what happens to him in the time between that’s interesting.

Well you know there is something wrong when your bouncing the basketball and it shatters like China, if you ask me that’s about the time when you need to head on out of their and if you do insist in watching then watch from a distance.

Gemma has gone dark, well a little dark, she has no problem threatening the corilean, but she is trying to find her man so I guess she has changed a little, especially compared to the first season, they all have changed.

Well Skye and Gemma found Fitz cryo pod but unfortunately he was not inside and it seems at this point they have no idea where he can be.

Bringing back the shield academy, good idea because they definitely need fresh blood on the team, but who are these new guys using the key lines and what do they want.

Gemma was not trying to leave her man behind at all, they are being attacked by a federate ship and uses this opportunity to put in the co-ordinates for where she suspects Fitz to be instead of earth knowing they would have to jump in order to get to safety.

Coulson? Who is this hard arse Coulson look alike and what is his end game here... at least they brought him back in some capacity but I wonder how Coulson 2.0 is going to be for the rest of the season...

So we picked up where we left off last week accept the missing but presumed dead women wasn’t actually dead but was instead having a fun drugged filled romantic encounter with her work colleague.

Nooo, Jordan, not my little Jordan, how can you just kill her off, but I guess they needed someone to be a martyr for the zombies at Filmore Graves.

Well at least we know it’s all a hoax and they managed to tell people that it wasn’t zombies, even if they had to use a hoax of their own to prove it. I don’t see either hoax lasting long though something worst is going to happen and it’s either going to bring the people of Seattle together or drive them further apart.

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Pilgrim really thinks he is the one, about I’m your god, dude your not a got your just guy with a superiority complex, look how you treat anyone who isn’t on your side, killing people just because they don’t want your gift.

So glad MK didn’t kill Tilda, she had his back from day 1... Cressida made sure to make her exit when the battle was raging, know one could this chick stupid, if only Nathaniel could get revenge for his girl Linda.

Ok so Tilda isn’t quite dead but MK is not helping with that in any way shape or form but it gave the widow enough pain for her eyes to turn black and show us what she can do with her powers.

They finally defeat Pilgrim but suffered a huge loss... how can you do that to Sunny, Sunny who was the baddest of the baddest and better yet, why couldn’t you unlock his gifts, if Sunny had the black eyes in his adult years you know no one would have been able to touch him.

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It begins with Lucifer looking for Chloe at a crime scene which he has been doing for the month since she got shot in season 3 finale. Dan is mad at Lucifer because he blames him for Charlotte’s death but let’s face it we know it goes deeper than that and that he is using it as an excuse to hate Lucifer. Chloe does finally turn up and she’s being a bit weird with Lucifer, it’s like in a way she’s in denial but then she still wants him to show him his powers, it’s a bit weird and you can tell there is something up with chloe.

Don’t get me started on Chloe she’s listening to what father kingley is saying about Lucifer about how he is evil, how he is responsible for so many deaths and blah blah blah, point is she is listening to this guy and is getting decked in to his plans, like are you dumb, you’ve been working alongside Lucifer for years you should know better than someone watching from the shadows what he’s like, he’s protected you on numerous occasions and has been hurt badly in the process and yet you let this man you just met tell you that Lucifer only thinks of himself. She is a little sell out.

Atleast Chloe finally admits to Lucifer that she is terrified of Lucifer instead of lying to him and saying that she is cool with everything, we all knew she wasn’t.

Queue Eve’s entrance and another part of the prophecy Father Kingly was apparently trying to stop.

Eve has been there for five minutes and is already causing trouble, this whole sweet girl routine just isn’t flying especially when Lucifer gets shot in the face for a necklace that Eve supposedly stole.

Eve is so not happy to hear about Lucifer’s relationship with Chloe, especially when Lucifer talks about parting ways, she definetly appears to be up to something. She does not want to leave him for some reason that’s for sure.

It may sound bad but I really wanted Chloe to walk in when Eve was kissing Lucifer when he had his devil face just so she can see that someone accepts Lucifer for who he is no matter the look, I know it’s much deeper than that but it’s a start, she just left it a little too late to show him that she accepts him.

Lucifer really does have a way of misinterpreting Linda’s advice in his therapy sessions, it does work out for him in the end. Like for instance this case closure... Chloe just needs him for the car to close the case and Lucifer has taken it they will get closure working together again.

Chloe is in straight up denial and is definetly jealous of Lucifer and Eve’s relationship, especially since he is known to have more than one in a week and he has only been with Eve since she got to town. You know it’s bad when Ella is even saying it sounds serious.

Lucifer and his orgy pants, how can you now notice the breeze with your cheeks flapping in the breeze.

6 episodes in and I’m still trying to work out what Eve is up to, she appears to be there to get back with Lucifer and seems to be bringing out the worst in Lucifer especially when it comes to his relationship with Chloe she is very jealous, but I still think she is up to no good I feel like she has a secret agender and it’s not just to get her ex back.

My girl Maze, since she found out Linda is expecting she is trying to help out to the best of her ability but Amenadial just isn’t having it, it is nice seeing a softer side to her but I want badass Maze back.

I’m glad that Lucifer didn’t kill that guy but he sure did make sure to punish him, that guy is really scared of him.

Dan is an idiot, he’s letting his feelings about Lucifer cloud his judgment and he is making stupid choices that he wouldn’t have done before Charlotte died. Dan is lucky that Lucifer is the devil and that Trixie wasn’t hurt after he threw Lucifer under the bus.

Lucifer finally tells Eve that he wants to break up because he doesn’t like who he is with her, Eve probably thinks it’s because of Chloe and probably doesn’t help that she calls right when he is breaking up with Eve.

Eve is going to break Maze’s heart she seem to genuinely have feelings for Eve and Eve is just using her to get back at Lucifer who couldn’t really care less.

Maze, singing for her gurl, totally unexpected but it was nice she’s being vulnerable and making her grand gestur for Eve, only for it to be to backfir, I feel sorry for her, I knew Eve would break her heart.

Eve just had to mess things up, she so desperate for Lucifer to love her that she basically fulfilled the prophecy by killing Father Kingly and telling him to tell the Demons she needs them to help Lucifer, she is an idiot.

My only thing with the demons on earth part is since Lucifer has been on earth for “vacation” for some time and only a celestial being can be the king of hell, what exactly have the demons been doing all this time and who the hell been in charge because someone had to keep some form of order down there, has it been this Dramos guy?

I’m glad that Linda and Amenadiel got baby Charlie back and that he has decided not to take him to the silver city.

They have landed on a new planet and are in the process of cataloging the wildlife and fauna. Now why is everyone standing around and his watching when mr Lightbourne slashes his daughter across the throat, no one calls out or anything they only start to panic when he brings out the gun and then their like crap better get out of here.

We forward back to the present and the gang is trying to separate into groups and chain themselves up so that they don’t hurt each other. Murphy is still throwing digs at Clarke about her turning on her friends like he’s so perfect.

The guys that are awake on the ship are locked in the canteen when they are ambushed by a few people from the ground. Raven wasn’t captured but she managed to make it the the cryopods and wake up a heavily pregnant Diyoza. Now I know she is expecting to drop that baby any time soon but she is definitely someone you would want on your team, she’s a tactical genius and isn’t afraid to get her hands dirty. It also helps that she know the ship considering she was the captain for however long.

Bellamy has lost it and he might have lost it bad... I think he got a nice dose of crazy when he was pushed down and was on the same level as the dead bugs... Bellamy looked like he was going to go after his girl Clarke but got stopped when Murphy decided to shoot up the place.

Octavia is definitely try to be the hard arse leader with no feelings but we all know that she feels it all no matter how hard she tries not to, she is trying to be like their old leaders but it doesn’t seem the same, she just seems like she’s trying too hard, Diyoza on the other hard is just that hard chick and doesn’t really care, look at how she handle the situation when she woke up. Not getting angry and just getting straight down to business not trying to get herself killed by her crew like Octavia.

The toxin that’s released does it make these guys want to act out on their deepest darkest desires because everyone seems to be affected differently, Murphy has run of scared and decides to shoot first ask questions later, Bellamy has straight up anger issues and wants to tell people what to do and Clarke, well she just wants to kill herself, I guess why not since she has killed many people to save hers then I guess it makes no sense for her to kill them but as she is filled with safe hate it makes sense for her to commit suicide.

It’s weird seeing Murphy as the level headed on in the group. Although it helps Clarke for a short while, it did nothing to help Bellamy.

The group from the ship manages to get down to the planet and the bring one of the people that tries to steal their ship. When they get to the are with the radiation barrier they find Shaws grave. They also find Clarke, Bellamy and Murphy knocked out near the pond. Shortly after they see kids running back gone from where ever they were hidden.

A little girl asks Clarke if they are there to take them home to which Clarke responds isn’t this your home. Now come on Clarke as beautiful as it may look so you really think they want to stay on a planet that makes them want to kill everyone around them as soon as the planets eclipse because it must happen often enough for them to have restraints that it isn’t worth staying there if they don’t have to.

#intruder in science lab.

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And the two kelly’s meet. Double trouble on the Orville. The Bortus death stare at the pubescent comment from Gordon. Every parent needs that look for their misbehaving children.

Kelly really isn’t a fan of her younger self staying on the Orville, i’m sure she is going to get more annoyed as time goes on, especially if younger kelly hooks up with Ed because we know he Isn’t fully over kelly.

The look on capt kelly’s face when Ed lets he know he thinking about going on a second date with young kelly.

Young kelly just put older kelly in her place... what did she expect when she’s gone there to warn her off Ed. But then Ed is a little naive if he thinks it’s going to be a good relationship.... you know it’s bad when Gordon is telling you it’s a bad relationship, the guy who was having a full blown relationship with a simulation...

Love bortus and klyden’s dancing they were really getting into the spirit of the thing. But Ed was already starting to have second thoughts in the simulation.

At least they managed to send young kelly back to her time with no memory of the future so that’s something atleast.

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Beard hunter, what a weird guy... like what the hell are you eating from the sink... that stuff looks NASTY!

Why was Niles trying to act like he found the creature when the creature found him after he broke his leg falling down a slope.

Cyborg.... we’ll definitely not like the cyborg we know and love front the cartoons but how you letting the bears hunter dodge you so easily... and then your struggling to control your hardware.... and getting “defeated” but the guy who’s talking about hair follicles... great one 😔

Niles don’t be dumb and show your old friend your new digs, better yet you shouldn’t head back there for a while as your only doing to lead the guy to the creature.

It is nice seeing Rita and Cyborg on their little side mission but Rita is almost always being negative... look on the bright side every now and again girl.

And there’s Mr Nobody... it’s been a while since we have seen you. Ears dropping on Nile’s backstory/ memory, what are you trying to gain?

Run Beard hunter Run....

#“The suit is ready, are you?”

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Just some of Spock’s parting words to Michael before she dons the suite in what might be a one way trip.

Off course Captain Leland is going to use the opportunity to beam aboard discovery as soon as their shields are down. That guy is relentless in his quest to obtain the sphere data. He is nothing if not relentless...

Omg did anyone see Star Treks version of R2D2 from Star Wars?

Dr Hugh, that guy is funny how can you tell your guy that you came back from and everything always leads back to him after you have induced a coma... lol was it because you knew he wouldn’t let you finish what you have to say?

I must say I am a little disappointed in georgiou fight with Leland I expected her to get a few more hits in especially when she loves to brag about behind terrin, I just expect a more ruthless fight to be happening than what was presented.

Aww. Spock don’t leave, I don’t want him to not go with Michael, I like the dynamic between the two of them but I do understand that he has a place on enterprise and that he will do a lot of good there.

Love how everyone is saying that discovery was blown up etc. Spock and no1 and yes I know that’s not her name had all the smartarse lines for the interviewer.