Book 48, 2015
Once again, I stayed up too late last night to finish a good book, but finish it, I did! The book was Frost Burned by Patricia Briggs, and it is the 7th installment in her "Mercy Thompson" urban fantasy series. I love these books, and this one was no exception.
When Mercy is out shopping Black Friday with her stepdaughter Jesse, she intuits that something is wrong with her mate Adam and the Pack. Mercy returns to her work shop, where she meets up with Ben, a Pack member, who tells her that sketchy federal agents took the entire Pack into custody. Now, it's up to Mercy and a ragtag bunch of allies (including vampires, Fae, good cops, humans, and one decent agent) to keep Jesse safe, retrieve the Pack, and get even with the perpetrators. In doing so, Mercy discovers that the kidnapping of the Pack was only a small piece of a large, sinister puzzle.
This series is typically told in first-person pov, from Mercy's perspective, but this one contained some chapters in third-person pov, from Adam's perspective. It was different, but not so as to jar me out of the narrative. The only thing I didn't like was at the end, when the story vacillated between what was going on now, and things that had occurred earlier. Now that was a tad jarring. Nevertheless, giving this one a top rating of five!
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Favorite line: "There are some things you never name out loud, like Macbeth, the IRS, and Voldemort."
When Mercy is out shopping Black Friday with her stepdaughter Jesse, she intuits that something is wrong with her mate Adam and the Pack. Mercy returns to her work shop, where she meets up with Ben, a Pack member, who tells her that sketchy federal agents took the entire Pack into custody. Now, it's up to Mercy and a ragtag bunch of allies (including vampires, Fae, good cops, humans, and one decent agent) to keep Jesse safe, retrieve the Pack, and get even with the perpetrators. In doing so, Mercy discovers that the kidnapping of the Pack was only a small piece of a large, sinister puzzle.
This series is typically told in first-person pov, from Mercy's perspective, but this one contained some chapters in third-person pov, from Adam's perspective. It was different, but not so as to jar me out of the narrative. The only thing I didn't like was at the end, when the story vacillated between what was going on now, and things that had occurred earlier. Now that was a tad jarring. Nevertheless, giving this one a top rating of five!
♦♦♦♦♦
Favorite line: "There are some things you never name out loud, like Macbeth, the IRS, and Voldemort."