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That includes a couple alphas. Mercy Thompson is a great series, for any werewolf lover. I understand that she herself isnt a were, but a changeling, but she does one hell of a job with keeping not just one, but a few different were males in line.
I really recommend this book & the whole series. Sure-why not. It is better to read them in sequence so you can develope the flow of the characters. I have read all of Patricia Briggs "Mercy" series and she has a follower in me. Also she has written some other series which are ok but not as great as the Mercy & Omega series.try them, you'll like them. Coyotes. Werewolves. Vampires.
Keep your creative juice flowing Mrs. I just hope that her relationship with the vampire and her two werewolves doesn't turn out to be another Laurell Halmilton's Anita Blake series (those of you who have read the other series know what I mean). Briggs. In this book, Mercy hunted and killed a crazy vampire sorcerer and saved her vampire and werewolf friends. I like the series so far and I would like to know more about her "walker" powers.
I really thought it was going to feel disconnected and tacked on, and instead it worked out perfectly. The tension is taut throughout, even when the story splits off and goes in a direction I wasn't expecting. Well worth the read.More here:[.]. Normally, if I stumble on something that I think is going to make me groan, it eventually does.
Her partial immunity to vampire magic (a result of her walker heritage) may not be enough to help her when the vampire trouble turns into sorcerer trouble, which turns into demon trouble.Though I rated Moon Called a 4 (nearly a 5), Blood Bound was an easy 5 for me. Briggs handles things well and either has a damn good content editor or a keen sense for it herself. This is the second of the Mercedes Thompson books. In Moon Called, Mercy recruited the help of her vampire friend, Stefan, to help out with some werewolf trouble that descended on the Tri-Cities. The action and the danger were intense enough to lend a sense of urgency to the book, while never making it seem too extreme (leaving nowhere to go in the rest of the series). I'm not used to that.
It fit the story rather than being wedged in to it, and it was just as engaging and proportionately dangerous and tension-worthy as it should have been. In Blood Bound, the potentially groan-worthy thing was a split focus at the end. We all know how these things work out, don't we)., Mercy still has a bone to pick, a score to settle. I expected it to be dealt with in the next book, and instead, a little mini-plot developed while Mercy pursued this new Big Bad. Briggs' characters are full and dynamic, even many of the minor characters; they're layered and interesting, but not distracting. It didn't really fall into the category of tying up loose ends because it was a bit too big for that. Now, the favor has come due, and it is Mercy's turn to help Stefan and the vampires -- a dangerous position to be in.
When the main trouble is over and the foe vanquished (is that spoilery. She makes choices that initial make me leery, and then she makes them work. It is good at being exactly what it's supposed to be. There aren't tangential paragraphs describing rippling abs and long waving hair; what description there is, is to the point and effective.I continue to be surprised by Briggs.
I've read a lot of books in the paranormal/ paranormal romance area, but something about the Mercy Thompson universe, or the characters that populate it, have really got my attention. She learns more about her skills as a walker, and why those make her more dangerous to vampires. On some levels, I would even dare to say that this book was better than the first one.After the happenings of the first book, Mercy owes her vampire friend Stefan a favor. Mercy has always been knee-deep in werewolf politics, whether she likes it or not, but now she'll have to dive even deeper into vampire politics.
I'm excited to find out more about Mercy, and all the other characters, in future books. One of my complaints about the first book was that you were almost constantly beat over the head with the ins and outs of werewolf dynamics. The werewolf stuff was still there, but I didn't feel like I was getting beat over the head with it.I think that part of the reason I like this series so much is Mercy herself. On a side note, there is also an unexpected romantic-esque twist at the end of the book that I didn't see coming. She is an amazingly deep and complex character, and there are many aspects of her that I think we have yet to see. I was almost worried that the second book wouldn't live up to the caliber of the first, but I was in no way disappointed.
This seemed to be very toned down in this book, possible because of the focus on vampires. I'm not sure if anything will come out of it yet, but I thought it was pretty interesting. Unfortunately, this favor will involve a demon-possessed new vampire that is terrorizing the Tri-Cities. Our heroine is mostly content to let her more powerful allies handle it, but when friends, both werewolves and vampires, end up missing, hurt, or dead, Mercy has to take matters into her own hands.
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