#17 Imaginary Numbers by Seanan McGuire

Seeing that a book is the ninth in a series would give readers a pause, but the nice thing is this one keeps changing POV characters. Sarah a cousin of the of the previous POV she is not related by DNA but adoption and the only reason it mattes is that she is a cryptid. Her species look alike and use telepathy to control people around them. Sarah was raised being told it was wrong. She does use her powers and early in the series she burned herself out saving her cousin. Five years later, Sarah is finally leaving the house after slowly regaining control of her powers. Almost immediately into her trip to see other family members that she hasn’t seen during her convalesces she bumps into another cuckoo and things quickly go downhill. As a starting point in the series this can work for the new reader since background is given and most of the family members she is visiting haven’t been featured in the books before. The book does end on a cliffhanger and there is a novella at the end that fills in events from the end of the previous book to the start of this one. It also teases about where some plot strings might be going.

Digital review copy provided by the publisher through NetGalley