Menagerie
Rachel Vincent
MIRA, Sep 29 2015, $26.99
ISBN: 9780778316053
Over two decades ago purebred Homo sapiens slaughtered most of the
Cryptid hybrids; even parents tortured and murdered their children in the
genocidal frenzy. Survivors were
enslaved, but a few escaped notice because they were “passing” as “normal”.
In present day Oklahoma, Delilah Morrow always assumed she is 100%
human and never gave a first thought about the Cryptid. On her twenty-fifth birthday she enters
Metzger’s Menagerie to watch in horror a several-thousand plus mob taunting a
werewolf. Claws suddenly appear without
warning as her three friends watch in horror and ask what Delilah is. Quickly incarcerated, Delilah is relocated in
a menagerie, but unable to make her claws reappear even if that means a worse
fate for her. Her handler Gallagher
explains to Delilah her importance to her new community while encouraging her
to help save her race.
The Menagerie opening act is a tremendous extremely dark urban
fantasy due to Rachel Vincent’s awesome
world-building erected from genocide, slavery and other human rights
violations. Intrepid Delilah’s plight
since she no longer passes as human and her newly found reason to live through
her ordeal make for a magnificent coming of age and species awareness thriller.
Harriet Klausner
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