Week 45 Reviews: Installment Immortality, Mourner's Waltz

From Goodreads:

Seanan McGuire's New York Times-bestselling and Hugo Award-nominated InCryptid series continues with a whirlwind adventure....

After four generations of caring for the Price family, Mary Dunlavy has more than earned a break from the ongoing war with the Covenant of St. George. Instead, what she's getting is a new employer, in the form of the anima mundi, Earth's living soul made manifest, and a new assignment: to hunt down the Covenant agents on the East Coast and make them stop imprisoning America's ghosts.

All in a day's work for a phantom nanny, even one who'd really rather be teaching her youngest charges how to read.

One ghost can't take on the entire Covenant without backup, which is how she winds up on a road trip with the still-mourning Elsie and the slowly collapsing Arthur, both of whom are reeling in their own way from the loss of their mother. New allies and new enemies await in Worcester, Massachusetts, where the path of the haunting leads.

With the anima mundi demanding results and Mary's newfound freedom at stake, it's down to Mary to make sure that everyone gets out of this adventure alive.

It's been a long afterlife, but Mary Dunlavy's not ready to be exorcised quite yet.

My Review:
I just loved reading these stories! I love this series and I love Seanan McGuire's writing, and this latest installment to the series, after everything that happened in the previous volume, I had just to read it, and it was just that good! I really enjoyed following Mary as the protagonist, as a ghost, she has a very different mindset and skillset from the various Prices that we've followed in the previous books.

Mary has been through a lot, she was a Crossroad's ghost, and then she was a babysitter ghost. But she had existed in this gray area, where the rules weren't really defined. But after the events of the previous book, yeah, she has to figure out what her limits where, what she was capable of.

One thing that I loved about this book, is that we spend a lot of time with Arthur and Elsie, both of whom are having a tough time, between his personality cobbled together from the ones that loved him, and the loss of their mother. It's complicated, and I'm glad that we got time to just sit with it, because there aren't any easy solutions. 

Mourner's Waltz hurt, it's another story of Verity and her grief, which is still a gaping wound for her, with her daughter safely away, but being heavily pregnant, and dealing with some goings on in the apartment building that she manages. It's a story of grief, and continuing to live life after a loss.

Loved reading these, and I can't wait for more from this series, and by Seanan McGuire! 

Author: Seanan McGuire
Series: InCryptid #14
Read: November 5th, 5th, 2024 
Source: NetGalley 
Reason Why: Love her writing and this series, and they're Prequel & Sequel Challenge 2024 Books and Installment Immortality is a WoW Book! 
Publisher: Tor Books
Expected Publication: March 11th 2025, March 11th 2025

Installment Immortality:

5/5 Hearts

5/5 Books

5/5 Stars

Mourner's Waltz:

5/5 Hearts

5/5 Books

5/5 Stars