This is certainly a departure from McGuire's other series. The Toby Daye books are about a vicious faerie rather after the order of the Dresden Files. In these, our heroine, Verity Price, is a member of a clan whose mission is to maintain a sort of balance between the "natural world" and the creatures of myth and legend known as cryptids - who are not all that mythological after all. The Prices were once a part of an organization known as the Covenant of St. George, which claimed as its mission the destruction of all these "unnatural (therefore evil) creatures." Now the Prices have made the preservation and protection of the monsters their mission and, as a consequence, have joined all the monsters on the Covenant's list of creatures slated for extermination. In the meantime, everyone on the Covenant's list with any sense migrated to the Americas.
At this point, the Price family with its branches is in hiding somewhere in the western US and Verity has taken up residence in New York City to oversee and protect the creatures there - and to pursue her own dream of being an international ballroom dancing star. At the time of the story, she is supporting herself by working as a cocktail waitress at a strip club run by a bogeyman, entering dance competitions, and practicing her hobby of "free running" which McGuire describes much better than I can. I even googled it and still don't have a very clear idea - beyond that of suicidal risk-taking. The wiki even defined it as a form of martial art. Then one night as she is free running home and checking up on some of her charges, she runs into a member of the Covenant - a young handsome member of the Covenant.
Naturally, they are attracted to each other - and consider killing each other - then girls start disappearing. And they discover that some weirdo civilians are planning to wake the dragon.
Definitely more fun that Toby Daye. I never did make any sense of the title, though.
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