I knew I was in trouble when I checked how far along I was at the 5% mark in Winter Lost, the fourteenth instalment in the Mercy Thompson series. It’s never good when you’re worried about page count at the beginning of a book. Fortunately, things pick up after the thirty percent point, but if…
Soul Taken is the thirteenth book in the Mercy Thompson series and the nineteenth book in the Mercyverse. There’s some really intensive world-building here, and the stories should only be read in order. My review will not just contain oodles of spoilers for the previous books but may well sound like gibberish to those unfamiliar…
In Wild Sign, the sixth book in the Alpha and Omega series about mated werewolves Charles and Anna Cornick and eighteenth novel in the general Mercyverse, Patricia Briggs delivers a story about witches, wolves, and gods that is pure devotee-centric entertainment. Because this series is deeply interconnected you won’t want to read this book (or…
Smoke Bitten is the twelfth book in the Mercy Thompson series and can only be read as part of the saga. Too much character and world building take place in earlier novels for this story to make sense to anyone who hasn’t read those tales and this volume contains spoilers for the earlier works. You…
Storm Cursed is the eleventh book in the Mercy Thompson series and can only be read as part of the saga. Too much character and world building take place in earlier novels for this story to make sense to anyone who hasn’t read those tales. You have to really like a series to read that…
Long running series eventually (inevitably?) become more about providing fans an opportunity to connect with favorite characters than they are about providing great stories. In Burn Bright, the fifth book in the Alpha and Omega series and fifteenth novel in the general Mercyverse, Briggs delivers a story about witches, traitors and alliances that is pure…
When Moon Called, the first book in Patricia Briggs’ Mercy Thompson series, came out in 2006, I was in a paranormal reading slump. The triumvirate of Anita, Richard, and Jean Claude was no more, and our favorite mercenary Kate Daniels had yet to make her mark on a futuristic Atlanta. Imagine my surprise and delight…
Fire Touched is the 9th book in Patricia Briggs’ Mercy Thompson series, so if you have not read the previous books in this urban fantasy series, you need to just download the previous eight right now. They are that good. I was in a historical romance reading slump when I happened upon Ilona Andrews’ Kate…
Today, AAR reviewers Maggie Boyd and Mary Skelton tackle Fire Touched, the ninth book in the Mercy Thompson series by Patricia Briggs. Here is Maggie’s summary of the novel: Tensions between the fae, humans and the supernatural community at large are at an all-time high. Everyone now knows that magic is in the world, not…
Consider yourself duly warned: Patricia Briggs’ books build on each other, so everything I say from here on out will contain spoilers from books one through four of the Mercy Thompson series. Because the books are very mildly linked, it might also contain information from the Alpha and Omega series. It’s a good thing mechanic…
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