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Fair Game by Patricia Briggs

10 reviews

keishbby's review against another edition

adventurous dark 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture, Violence, Murder, and Death

Moderate: Child death and Child abuse

Minor: Suicide

michellewords's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

 I just love Charles + Anna. Alpha and Omega series is such a comfort read for me.
So Charles is like the "muscle" for the werewolves in the USA. Lately he has had to put down a lot more werewolves than normal and he has some literal ghosts hanging around, messing up everything.
To help distract him, Anna takes Charles to Boston to hunt down a longtime serial killer that's taken to targeting werewolves.
Fair Game was a fun ride with new characters and a delightful, dark mystery.
I liked it a lot. It was a standard Briggs novel - a fast easy read. Loved it. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death, Violence, Rape, Sexual content, Sexual violence, and Murder

kasaya_mt33's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark hopeful mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

This is one of my favourite rereads. I get tired of reading books with immature couples and over the top drama so I appreciate Patricia Briggs way of portraying healthy relationships in her books. It makes her writing even more enjoyable because its not always about somebody's hurt ego. I love Charles and Anna's relationship.

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Content Warnings

Minor: Child death, Rape, and Violence

dreamerfreak's review

adventurous dark emotional 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual violence, Child death, Blood, Death, Drug use, Kidnapping, Murder, Pedophilia, Torture, Racial slurs, Rape, and Violence

cmaree88's review

adventurous challenging emotional inspiring medium-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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder

Minor: Rape, Violence, and Xenophobia

omega's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny mysterious sad tense medium-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Sexual content, Violence, and Death

Minor: Child abuse and Sexual violence

zinlizzie's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

4.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual assault, Rape, Xenophobia, Child abuse, Child death, Murder, and Violence

ashleycmms's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny lighthearted mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Kidnapping, Racial slurs, and Xenophobia

Moderate: Sexual content, Sexual violence, Torture, Blood, Murder, Rape, and Violence

Minor: Racism and War

udari's review against another edition

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse, Child death, Violence, and Xenophobia

Moderate: Toxic relationship, Death, and Sexual harassment

Minor: Torture, Kidnapping, and Pedophilia

bookfun's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark mysterious sad tense medium-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

4.75

I love love love this book so much! And I think, ironically, it is because of the side characters, which seems to be one of many strengths of Patricia Briggs writing. I have always loved her side characters in Mercy's books, but there, she has the possibility to develop them over several books, in this series, Anna and Charles hop from place to place so far. Of course there are some side characters (Bran, Asil and the likes) who make repeat appearances and they are fantastic as well, but I love how easily Ms. Briggs makes characters seem real. It makes it seem like the other characters have a story of themself and aren't just there to help Anna and Charles's story move along, just that their story coincides with each other at the moment and that made it wonderful to read. I would love to read more about Isaac and his witch and Leslie and her work in the future, it was really interesting. 

Also, since I didn't manage to read this series in between the Mercy books in the right order, it was nice finding out how the fae independence decleration and lockdown thing actually happend. Sadly, I would think that this outcome is exactly what would happen if supernatural thing would turn out to exist in our world. So point for sad realism I guess. 

I loved seeing Anna's character development again, how she isn't scared to stand up for the right thing and fight for Charles, something she would have never dared to do in the beginning and how she won't allow anyone to make her a victim again. (not that she did that before, it wasn't her faul that she was abused, but she has more knowledge and power now and she won't let the past break her and she won't let anyone take her happiness without a fight).

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Racism, and Physical abuse

Moderate: Rape