I never liked the Mercy Thompson books, and it was a twist of fate that I picked up Cry Wolf to begin with and I loved it. I loved Hunting Ground too. Hmm...I think because I love Anna so much that it makes a good book to me.
As far as the Sunny angle--she was Omega (or would have been if she had turned) according to Charles. They stated a bunch of times in Cry Wolf and Hunting Ground that it would be nie on difficult for a reasonably rational wolf to hurt or change an Omega because of the protective response. Leo had to use a blood-crazed wolf to turn Anna and Arthur was many things, but I don't think blood-crazed was one of them (a case could be made for the French guy, I think tho). So that might have been why he never changed her (then also she might not WANTED to have changed, they don't really get into it too deep).
As far as the vamps saying their employer failed them, I'm guessing Arthur refused to pay them because they failed and instead of a 'kind' death (as Arthur probably wanted for Sunny, they brutalized her, which upset Arthur more then he thought it would. I mean its one thing to be okay with her death, its another to see her so horribly abused before she died...
Thanks. :) I'm very interested to meet a reader who hasn't read the M.T. books but IS reading the Anna/Charles books: do you ever feel like you're missing something in terms of world-building or details, or do you feel you have just enough to get through the books? :)
The only issues I came across in Cry Wolf was when Bran or Charles would mention how deeply Sam hurt and how Bran tried to get Mercy to mate with him. Otherwise I haven't had any other problems that didn't solve themselves within the framework of the two books (and SS). I was kind of interested when I saw that Charles (and of course Bran's pack) had appeared in the Mercy books, but it didn't seem as if that was a major plot point.
It wasn't like within the Buffy Universe how Spike died in Buffy series finale, but came back as a in ghost in Angel season 5--how it was important to know the particulars of why/how he died. It was more like when Willow would make a guest appearance on Angel for five minutes and its explained in Buffy as 'Oh Angel needed help'. Not a big deal, just an interesting sidenote.
::hands over a pile of coffee flavored cookies:: Short story :) you know as I was typing it I was like 'maybe I shouldn't just wantonly abbreviate things...' but yeah sorry XD
As far as the Sunny angle--she was Omega (or would have been if she had turned) according to Charles. They stated a bunch of times in Cry Wolf and Hunting Ground that it would be nie on difficult for a reasonably rational wolf to hurt or change an Omega because of the protective response. Leo had to use a blood-crazed wolf to turn Anna and Arthur was many things, but I don't think blood-crazed was one of them (a case could be made for the French guy, I think tho). So that might have been why he never changed her (then also she might not WANTED to have changed, they don't really get into it too deep).
As far as the vamps saying their employer failed them, I'm guessing Arthur refused to pay them because they failed and instead of a 'kind' death (as Arthur probably wanted for Sunny, they brutalized her, which upset Arthur more then he thought it would. I mean its one thing to be okay with her death, its another to see her so horribly abused before she died...
but those are just my thoughts.
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It wasn't like within the Buffy Universe how Spike died in Buffy series finale, but came back as a in ghost in Angel season 5--how it was important to know the particulars of why/how he died. It was more like when Willow would make a guest appearance on Angel for five minutes and its explained in Buffy as 'Oh Angel needed help'. Not a big deal, just an interesting sidenote.
If that makes sense at least.
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Thank you. I figured it was something obvious, but my brain, she's not working. :)
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