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3.94 AVERAGE
3.94 AVERAGE
That was a surprising amount of fun to read. I might read another of these sometime. We'll see.
adventurous
dark
mysterious
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
4.5 stars
Great book! I have a new series to follow.
My two favorite things about this book:
1. Mercy. Mercy is a great heroine! She is smart and sensible and uses her head most of the time. She is not one of those "too-stupid-to-live" heroines in leather pants running out to kick ass all the time without thinking and putting herself and everyone else in danger every five minutes. It was really refreshing. She was down to earth and easy to like. She's not a mercenary or a bounty hunter or a police detective or anything like that. She's an auto mechanic, who just happens to get involved in some sticky stuff because of her circumstances.
2. A good chunk of this book took place in Montana, which never happens. I was so excited! I get really homesick. MT's a little too rural for me right now; I've gotten used to the conveniences of my current, slightly more urban location. But that's really the only thing keeping my from moving back; I LOVE Montana and miss it a lot. So reading about it in a UF book was awesome and I hope they have plenty of opportunity to go back.
Also, I think this is a good book to recommend to your slighty more conservative friends who don't read UF or PNR. There was no sex, very little language (in fact, there are a few instances of men curbing their language because they were in the presence of a lady...) and Mercy may actually be the first UF heroine I've ever read about that was religious. (Don't worry, she's not scary religious and if you're not into that, you'll still be okay with this book.)
I may make my sister read this one and see what she thinks...
Great book! I have a new series to follow.
My two favorite things about this book:
1. Mercy. Mercy is a great heroine! She is smart and sensible and uses her head most of the time. She is not one of those "too-stupid-to-live" heroines in leather pants running out to kick ass all the time without thinking and putting herself and everyone else in danger every five minutes. It was really refreshing. She was down to earth and easy to like. She's not a mercenary or a bounty hunter or a police detective or anything like that. She's an auto mechanic, who just happens to get involved in some sticky stuff because of her circumstances.
2. A good chunk of this book took place in Montana, which never happens. I was so excited! I get really homesick. MT's a little too rural for me right now; I've gotten used to the conveniences of my current, slightly more urban location. But that's really the only thing keeping my from moving back; I LOVE Montana and miss it a lot. So reading about it in a UF book was awesome and I hope they have plenty of opportunity to go back.
Also, I think this is a good book to recommend to your slighty more conservative friends who don't read UF or PNR. There was no sex, very little language (in fact, there are a few instances of men curbing their language because they were in the presence of a lady...) and Mercy may actually be the first UF heroine I've ever read about that was religious. (Don't worry, she's not scary religious and if you're not into that, you'll still be okay with this book.)
I may make my sister read this one and see what she thinks...
I finally finished the book after some odd weeks of working at it. It wasn’t a bad book by any means, I just kept getting distracted by everything else I wanted to do (watch anime, read manga, draw, writing my own novel, etc.), so yeah. It had nothing to do with it being bad or anything; I actually really liked it.
I wasn’t surprised that I liked it. When I scanned it a few times before I read it thoroughly I could tell that it was going to be something I liked. The writing was up my alley and the characters were likeable for me to get involved with and the lore caught me. I was interested in what she had planned and how she was going to go about the lore. It may be nothing new to some that have been reading the urban fantasy genre for years with the werewolf mythology, but for someone that is relatively new to digging this deep into the genre it’s pretty cool to me.
When I first started to read the book I was worried I wasn’t going to like the voice of Mercy, especially when I first bought it. Even after looking through the book and figuring I’ll probably like it quite a bit I was worried that I wouldn’t get as involved with the characters. Mercy was definitely my biggest worry because the whole book is in her voice. If I didn’t like her character then I got five books of the series for nothing. When I read Dead Witch Walking by Kim Harrison I found Rachael kind of annoying for the first third or half of the book and then she grew on me and it was because she would make some of the stupidest choices and wouldn’t listen to someone that knew what they were talking about. I was hoping that wouldn’t be Mercy.
Thankfully, that wasn’t her. Mercy I liked immediately.
I love most of the characters so far. The few I don’t like were all the vampires except Stefan and I was skeptical of Ben until the end of the book, but that’s about it. Jesse and Mercy’s dynamic is nice, especially when it’s a strong possibility that she’ll be Jesse’s step-mom. The tension between Samuel and Mercy was nice and it really showed that the two have a complicated relationship. It’s the same with Adam and Mercy as well; they just understand each other so well and I like that. I like how Mercy doesn’t back down and do exactly what every dominant male tells her to do and as much as Adam tries she keeps him on his toes without putting herself in danger of his wolf.
Warren and Kyle are freakin’ awesome and I hope they stick together for a long time (like, for life, a long time). I hope to learn more about them as a couple and as individuals, especially from Kyle’s end. And the relationship that Mercy has with is like they’re her best friends and that’s really cool considering that they are both gay males with difficulties with society and even the pack.
It’s also extremely nice to see that Adam is a divorced parent that takes good care of his daughter when he has her over when the ex-wife lets him. He’s actually more on it than the ex is and there is tension between them that is very typical for divorced parents. In all honesty, Adam should have complete custody of Jesse and not his ex-wife. There’s so much I could say about Jesse’s mom on her parenting skills with her having questionable boyfriends and leaving her by herself for long periods of time. It really makes me wondering what Adam saw in the broad.
And Stefan, oh my gosh, I love him. I think he’s great and the only vampire I’ll probably like through the whole series. I just have that feeling that’s going to be the case. Usually, I love vampire characters because I read a lot of vampire fiction, but these ones you really aren’t meant to like. You’re supposed to like the werewolves, that’s what the series is centered around out of the creatures. It’s a nice change for me because a lot of the vampire fiction I read doesn’t have werewolves playing a huge part in them.
The pacing of the book was perfect for me. I’m not fond of the slower pacing with nothing really going on action-wise even if I can trudge through it if I like the story or characters enough. With Briggs’ book she kept the ball rolling and there was no unnecessary scene that was just there to be filler. Her book is small for a reason, she starts where the problem is and the ride continues on from there. Its boom boom boom then the end. That’s my type of pacing. I try to do the same with my own writing because I don’t want to bore myself, yet alone my readers (when I get some, anyways).
The snark and sarcasm is awesome too. I love those in my books. I’m snarky and sarcastic and so are my closest friends and when you have characters with those characteristics the banter is always entertaining.
By the end of the book the weres are coming out of the supernatural closet and a lot of the book was based on this idea and the politics of what was happening. It wasn’t in there very prominently, but it was definitely there.
Also, the covers I love. Briggs’ books are some of my favorite covers in fiction (along with Jim Butcher’s Dresden Files, Pierce Brown’s Red Rising Trilogy, Nalini Singh’s Guild Hunters series, blah blah blah…).
I found a few typos where it made me have to read a couple sentences twice over to get it and sometimes it was only because a word or two were missing, nothing big. Really, there wasn’t anything I didn’t like about the book, to be honest. I may think of something later, if I do you’ll see it in a new post.
Well, that’s all I’ve got for this book. I’m on to the next one (unless I go to Red Rising again so I can start Golden Son, which will happen eventually).
I wasn’t surprised that I liked it. When I scanned it a few times before I read it thoroughly I could tell that it was going to be something I liked. The writing was up my alley and the characters were likeable for me to get involved with and the lore caught me. I was interested in what she had planned and how she was going to go about the lore. It may be nothing new to some that have been reading the urban fantasy genre for years with the werewolf mythology, but for someone that is relatively new to digging this deep into the genre it’s pretty cool to me.
When I first started to read the book I was worried I wasn’t going to like the voice of Mercy, especially when I first bought it. Even after looking through the book and figuring I’ll probably like it quite a bit I was worried that I wouldn’t get as involved with the characters. Mercy was definitely my biggest worry because the whole book is in her voice. If I didn’t like her character then I got five books of the series for nothing. When I read Dead Witch Walking by Kim Harrison I found Rachael kind of annoying for the first third or half of the book and then she grew on me and it was because she would make some of the stupidest choices and wouldn’t listen to someone that knew what they were talking about. I was hoping that wouldn’t be Mercy.
Thankfully, that wasn’t her. Mercy I liked immediately.
I love most of the characters so far. The few I don’t like were all the vampires except Stefan and I was skeptical of Ben until the end of the book, but that’s about it. Jesse and Mercy’s dynamic is nice, especially when it’s a strong possibility that she’ll be Jesse’s step-mom. The tension between Samuel and Mercy was nice and it really showed that the two have a complicated relationship. It’s the same with Adam and Mercy as well; they just understand each other so well and I like that. I like how Mercy doesn’t back down and do exactly what every dominant male tells her to do and as much as Adam tries she keeps him on his toes without putting herself in danger of his wolf.
Warren and Kyle are freakin’ awesome and I hope they stick together for a long time (like, for life, a long time). I hope to learn more about them as a couple and as individuals, especially from Kyle’s end. And the relationship that Mercy has with is like they’re her best friends and that’s really cool considering that they are both gay males with difficulties with society and even the pack.
It’s also extremely nice to see that Adam is a divorced parent that takes good care of his daughter when he has her over when the ex-wife lets him. He’s actually more on it than the ex is and there is tension between them that is very typical for divorced parents. In all honesty, Adam should have complete custody of Jesse and not his ex-wife. There’s so much I could say about Jesse’s mom on her parenting skills with her having questionable boyfriends and leaving her by herself for long periods of time. It really makes me wondering what Adam saw in the broad.
And Stefan, oh my gosh, I love him. I think he’s great and the only vampire I’ll probably like through the whole series. I just have that feeling that’s going to be the case. Usually, I love vampire characters because I read a lot of vampire fiction, but these ones you really aren’t meant to like. You’re supposed to like the werewolves, that’s what the series is centered around out of the creatures. It’s a nice change for me because a lot of the vampire fiction I read doesn’t have werewolves playing a huge part in them.
The pacing of the book was perfect for me. I’m not fond of the slower pacing with nothing really going on action-wise even if I can trudge through it if I like the story or characters enough. With Briggs’ book she kept the ball rolling and there was no unnecessary scene that was just there to be filler. Her book is small for a reason, she starts where the problem is and the ride continues on from there. Its boom boom boom then the end. That’s my type of pacing. I try to do the same with my own writing because I don’t want to bore myself, yet alone my readers (when I get some, anyways).
The snark and sarcasm is awesome too. I love those in my books. I’m snarky and sarcastic and so are my closest friends and when you have characters with those characteristics the banter is always entertaining.
By the end of the book the weres are coming out of the supernatural closet and a lot of the book was based on this idea and the politics of what was happening. It wasn’t in there very prominently, but it was definitely there.
Also, the covers I love. Briggs’ books are some of my favorite covers in fiction (along with Jim Butcher’s Dresden Files, Pierce Brown’s Red Rising Trilogy, Nalini Singh’s Guild Hunters series, blah blah blah…).
I found a few typos where it made me have to read a couple sentences twice over to get it and sometimes it was only because a word or two were missing, nothing big. Really, there wasn’t anything I didn’t like about the book, to be honest. I may think of something later, if I do you’ll see it in a new post.
Well, that’s all I’ve got for this book. I’m on to the next one (unless I go to Red Rising again so I can start Golden Son, which will happen eventually).
adventurous
funny
hopeful
lighthearted
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
adventurous
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Need some good, grungy, urban fantasy sometimes.
adventurous
mysterious
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
adventurous
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
adventurous
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
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4 Craft check
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