I am a reader who likes variety. I started reading romance but then started reading mystery then eventually branched out into SF/F and urban fantasy and YA adult. Too much of one thing is well…eh, boring. Put it like this, it keeps things interesting and fresh for me. So I mix it up and these are the titles […]
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Bone Crossed (2009) by Patricia Briggs is the fourth book in the Mercy Thompson series. Werewolves, fae, vampires and other hidden creatures live among humans or so says Mercy, the narrator of this series. By the way, I’ll try not to spoil it for you if you haven’t started this series yet.
Mercy is a shape shifter or […]
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Bone Crossed by Patricia Briggs, the fourth book in the Mercy Thompson series comes out today! Of course, this is Ms. Briggs hardcover debut.
Skip to the contest details below if you’re already familiar with the series. If you haven’t started this series yet and are curious, the stories follow Mercy Thompson, a VW mechanic living in […]
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My first Patricia Briggs novel was Moon Called (2006), the first book in her urban fantasy series featuring VW mechanic and shape shifter, Mercy Thompson. I went on to read and enjoy her Hurog duology — Dragon Bones and Dragon Blood. What I love about Ms. Briggs’s work is that she is a solid writer who works very […]
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Cry Wolf (2008) by Patricia Briggs is the first in a new fantasy series that is a spin-off of the Mercy Thompson series (Moon Called) that features Anna Latham, an Omega and her mate Charles Cornick, who is an Alpha, assassin and eldest son of the Marrok. Note: You must answer the question at the end of […]
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Cry Wolf by Patricia Briggs is a brand new series that is a spin off from the Mercy Thompson book, Moon Called, that first introduced Charles Cornick, an assassin for the Marrok. In Moon Called, Charles went to Chicago to take care of “pack business” which is the plot of the short story, Alpha and Omega, […]
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On the Prowl is an anthology that was released way back in August of 2007, published by Berkley and features new and original stories by Patricia Briggs, Karen Chance, Eileen Wilks and Sunny. I may make some readers incredulous by sharing my opinion on one of the stories and dismissing the rest. Patricia Briggs has a new […]
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Iron Kissed by Patricia Briggs, published Jan 2008, is the third book in the Mercy Thompson series, published by Ace.
VW mechanic, Mercy Thompson, is a shape shifter. She is a walker who shifts from human to coyote at will. In the world that Mercy inhabits, the werewolves, fae and vampires exist alongside humankind.
However, the fae and the werewolves have been somewhat forced […]
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So, what books are you anticipating for the New Year? There really aren’t very many anticipated reads for me for the upcoming year. Maybe I can take a peek at someone else’s list. Anyway, I am excited about Shana Abe’s third book in her dra’kon trilogy coming Dec 07, Queen of Dragons. There’s also Patricia Brigg’s third Mercy Thompson book, Iron Kissed, due […]
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Blood Bound (2007) by Patricia Briggs is an urban fantasy novel and the second book in the Mercy Thompson series.
Just in case you haven’t read the first book, Moon Called, here is a brief synopsis for you: Mercy Thompson is a mechanic who is not human. She’s a coyote or “walker” who changes at will; coyotes are an ancient […]
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Dragon Bones by Patricia Briggs (2002), published by Ace. I enjoyed Moon Called and wanted something else to read from Brigg’s backlist. An online pal said that the Hurog Duology would be worth checking out and it is. Briggs has written a very interesting hero whose POV dominates much of the book. Here is the synop:
Most everyone thinks […]
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“Hurog means Dragon” Dragon Blood is an excellent sequel to Dragon Bones with a hero that is absolutely yummy. However, this is not a romance but a fantasy novel with romantic elements added to it. This duology was escape fiction at it’s very best.
Dragon Blood by Patricia Briggs takes place four years after the events of Dragon Bones. In […]
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Moon Called by Patricia Briggs, is the first book in a new series. The narrator is Mercedes Thompson aka Mercy. She’s a “walker” who has a brotherhood with the coyote and runs her own mechanic shop in the Tri-Cities. Love the paw print tattoo, don’t you?
I thoroughly enjoyed this urban fantasy by Patricia Briggs that is set in […]
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