u/KEW95

I have a personal rule never to put my animals up for over 5,000cc because I know how hard I worked to get the number of Conservation Credits I have, while still getting animals with good genetics to release/trade, and want to offer others affordable ones too. Even my albino animals (West African Lions are my most frequent ones) with all four genetics markers over 80% will be under that limit.

Do animals up for trade at 10,000cc really sell often enough that it seems worth it to repeatedly list them at that until they sell? I get it if it’s a rare, perfect quality animal, but it’s usually animals you can get for <7,000cc that frequently get traded.

It’s aimed at 8 - 12 year olds, but I’m actually really interested in this one. It reminds me a lot of Amari and the Nightbrothers, which was very good too. I have struggled to read books and dense text since I was around that age, so I vary the genre and intended audience age while trying to keep myself reading (after around 13 years of being unable to finish a book, no matter how desperate I was to stick with it).

It will be an easy read for most teens/adults, but I still think the story is a worthwhile one for readers who like fantasy/vampire fiction and are happy to experience a story aimed at preteens. There’s valuable diversity/inclusion with the main character being a Black girl, one of her friends being non-binary and their other friend having two dads, but all of that is just part of the story, rather than focused on too much.

— Boog lives in San Antonio, born after the Reaping, where the last of the vampires were wiped out. One of the retired Vanquishers is her friend’s abuelita. They have a tight knit community of the three friends and their families, who all live next door to each other. The adults are set in their outdated ways, acting like vampires are still a threat, when everyone else has moved on and thinks they’re strange/overprotective. When a new kid and his mum move on to the street, Boog and her friends invite him over to the barbecue, but the adults react poorly to this - as vampires, should there still be one or two, can only cross the threshold if invited, so you do not invite strangers over. When the same child goes missing, Boog starts to wonder if her parents aren’t as paranoid as she and her town believe them to be. The adults are keeping secrets and behaving suspiciously, the kids have their own burning desire to find their friend, the three of them are on lockdown when not at school and the idea of vampires being long gone is starting to look less guaranteed. —