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3.89 AVERAGE
3.89 AVERAGE
my review is only for Alpha & Omega.
I recently finished the Mercy Thompson series and got this book specifically to start Alpha & Omega. I really enjoyed the story and thought it was great to learn more about Charles. Im only a few chapters into Cry Wolf, but I can tell I will enjoy this series as much as Mercy.
After I finish the series I may come back and read the other stories in this book
I recently finished the Mercy Thompson series and got this book specifically to start Alpha & Omega. I really enjoyed the story and thought it was great to learn more about Charles. Im only a few chapters into Cry Wolf, but I can tell I will enjoy this series as much as Mercy.
After I finish the series I may come back and read the other stories in this book
I'll give Briggs story 3 1/2 stars. The rest of the book was just awful.
Honestly I only purchased this book for the novella Alpha & Omega to read the beginning of the Charles & Anna relationship. I think it's good to read this story first, yet it's by no means required. But it gives you more in depth detail to to their relationship to see where it began. Maybe someday I will take a stab at the other authors in the Anthology, but for now I'm happy with just Patricia Briggs'.
February 2012: Just finished "Inhuman" by Eileen Wilks. Since I've been reading the World of Lupi series. It was a nice novella set in the same world as the series, but not with any of the characters we already know. It takes place about a month after the events of Blood Lines. Kai and Nathan are both not entirely human and I liked their story a lot. I think Kai and Nathan will both make cameos in Night Shift (book 4 in the series). I don't think it's essential to read this story in order to understand the series, but just kind of enhances the world a little bit.
February 2012: Just finished "Inhuman" by Eileen Wilks. Since I've been reading the World of Lupi series. It was a nice novella set in the same world as the series, but not with any of the characters we already know. It takes place about a month after the events of Blood Lines. Kai and Nathan are both not entirely human and I liked their story a lot. I think Kai and Nathan will both make cameos in Night Shift (book 4 in the series). I don't think it's essential to read this story in order to understand the series, but just kind of enhances the world a little bit.
Okay, okay, let me just tell you that within this book there are about four novellas. Oh, and let me just point out that the first novella within this entire damn book is the only good one. It's 100% less cringe-worthy as well. The other three I just wish that I would've blacked out on. I really want to forget reading them. I was cringing the entire god damn time. I don't know if I'm ever going to get back the hours I spend reading this book. AND YES I SAID HOURS. Because of the constant cringing opportunities sprung upon me I had to walk away from this book and cheer myself up with another book. It honestly did not matter to me if the other book had a happy or terrible ending. IT JUST HAD TO BE A COMPLETELY DIFFERENT BOOK. That's all I asked and looked for.
So if anyone wants to read the Alpha and Omega Series by Patricia Briggs, just read the first novella of this book... or just completely forget this book and read the novella called Alpha and Omega 0.5. It's the same exact thing but just about that one novella. It would save you so much time. You wont be cringing at all. You will be happy - unlike me.
But don't worry. I'm not going to let the three other novellas steer me away from this series. Oh, hell no. I will stay strong and stick with my guns. I will read this series. I will make this series my bitch.
The reason I borrowed this from the library was simply on a recommendation for the first of the four stories in this anthology. It was OK, but the others were not worth reading... sampled them, but that was all.
Book one of Alpha and Omega by Patricia Briggs.
Anna is a forced changed werewolf in a Pack that abuses her regularly.
Anna eventually gets the courage to phone the Marrok Bran who is the head of the US werewolves.
Charles is his fathers enforcer and hit man when needed.
Bran sends Charles to Chicago to meet Anna and find out what's happening in Leo's Pack.
As soon as Charles meets Anna Charles wolf decides she is the one and wants to mate her.
Love this series and that it links very heavily with Mercy Thompson series.
If you love shapeshifter paranormal you have to read Patricia Briggs books.
Anna is a forced changed werewolf in a Pack that abuses her regularly.
Anna eventually gets the courage to phone the Marrok Bran who is the head of the US werewolves.
Charles is his fathers enforcer and hit man when needed.
Bran sends Charles to Chicago to meet Anna and find out what's happening in Leo's Pack.
As soon as Charles meets Anna Charles wolf decides she is the one and wants to mate her.
Love this series and that it links very heavily with Mercy Thompson series.
If you love shapeshifter paranormal you have to read Patricia Briggs books.
Amusingly, the four stories in this book were placed in order of quality.
Briggs' branch off into a different aspect of her werewolf-compliant world was a lovely read, and I look forward to reading more, while Wilks presented an intriguing world setting, and a pair of characters it was easy to care about, but a somewhat formulaic romance storyline. Karen Chance's tale was enjoyable enough, but fairly fluffy, incomplete and poorly paced - less a short story than the first few chapters of a novel, which didn't leave me enthused about tracking down more of her work.
And as for Sunny's turgid purple prose... well, the less said the better, I think.
Briggs' branch off into a different aspect of her werewolf-compliant world was a lovely read, and I look forward to reading more, while Wilks presented an intriguing world setting, and a pair of characters it was easy to care about, but a somewhat formulaic romance storyline. Karen Chance's tale was enjoyable enough, but fairly fluffy, incomplete and poorly paced - less a short story than the first few chapters of a novel, which didn't leave me enthused about tracking down more of her work.
And as for Sunny's turgid purple prose... well, the less said the better, I think.
Excellent origin story for Charles and Anna. Excited to read the first full length novel in the series now.
Loved the Patricia Briggs short, but the rest weren't really my style.