Words I Write Crazy: Week 15 Reviews: Moon Crossed, Blood Bound, Iron Kissed, Bone Crossed, Silver Borne, River Marked

Saturday, April 15, 2023

Week 15 Reviews: Moon Crossed, Blood Bound, Iron Kissed, Bone Crossed, Silver Borne, River Marked

From Goodreads:

Mercedes "Mercy" Thompson is a talented Volkswagen mechanic living in the Tri-Cities area of Washington. She also happens to be a walker, a magical being with the power to shift into a coyote at will. Mercy's next-door neighbor is a werewolf. Her former boss is a gremlin. And she's fixing a bus for a vampire. This is the world of Mercy Thompson, one that looks a lot like ours but is populated by those things that go bump in the night. And Mercy's connection to those things is about to get her into some serious hot water...

From Goodreads:
Under the rule of science, there are no witch burnings allowed, no water trials or public lynchings. In return, the average law-abiding, solid citizen has little to worry about from the things that go bump in the night. Sometimes I wish I was an average citizen...

Mechanic Mercy Thompson has friends in low places-and in dark ones. And now she owes one of them a favor. Since she can shapeshift at will, she agrees to act as some extra muscle when her vampire friend Stefan goes to deliver a message to another of his kind.

But this new vampire is hardly ordinary-and neither is the demon inside of him.

From Goodreads:
I could smell her fear, and it satisfied something deep inside me that had been writhing under her cool, superior gaze. I curled my upper lip so she could get a good look at my sharp teeth. I might only weigh thirty or so pounds in my coyote shape, but I was a predator...

Mechanic Mercy Thompson can shift her shape - but not her loyalty. When her former boss and mentor is arrested for murder and left to rot behind bars by his own kind, it's up to Mercy to clear his name, whether he wants her to or not.

Mercy's loyalty is under pressure from other directions, too. Werewolves are not known for their patience, and if Mercy can't decide between the two she cares for, Sam and Adam may make the choice for her...

From Goodreads:

By day, Mercy is a car mechanic in the sprawling Tri-Cities of Eastern Washington. By night, she explores her preternatural side. As a shapeshifter with some unique talents, Mercy has often found herself having to maintain a tenuous harmony between the human and the not so human. This time she may get more than she bargained for.

Marsilia, the local Vampire Queen, has learned that Mercy crossed her by slaying a member of her clan—and she's out for blood. But since Mercy is protected from direct reprisal by the werewolf pack (and her close relationship with its sexy Alpha), it won't be Mercy's blood Marsilia is after.

It'll be her friends'.

From Goodreads:
Being a mechanic is hard work. Mercy Thompson, for instance, just spent the last couple of months trying to evade the murderous queen of the local vampire seethe. And now the leader of the werewolf pack, who's maybe-more-than-just-a-friend, has asked for her help. A book of fae secrets has come to light and they're all about to find out how implacable - and dangerous - the fae can be.

OK, so maybe her troubles have nothing to do with the job. But she sure could use a holiday...

From Goodreads:
Being a different breed of shapeshifter-a walker-Mercy Thompson can see ghosts, but the spirit of her long-gone father has never visited her. Until now, on her honeymoon with the Alpha werewolf Adam. An evil is stirring in the depths of the Columbia River-and innocent people are dying. As other walkers make their presence known to Mercy, she must reconnect with her heritage to exorcise the world of the legend known as the river devil...

My first review of Moon Crossed, Blood Bound, Iron Kissed, Bone Crossed, Silver Borne, River Marked

My second review of Moon Crossed, Blood Bound, Iron Kissed, Bone Crossed, Silver Borne, River Marked
My Review:
I really adore this series so much! I love this world and I love these characters and I just love Patricia Briggs writing! So after reading all her other books that I hadn't previously read, I felt an itch to go back and read these ones again, and I did, and I loved it!

This is the third time that I've read this series. But I still didn't quite remember everything, like how Mac died, or how things were resolved in Bone Crossed. In a way, I'm glad for my poor memory, because it's almost like reading a book again for the first time!

Mercy and Adam together is just so much fun! The ways that she taunts him with that junk car, has her methods of dealing with dominant werewolves, and stands up to them, or works around them, as well as the passion between them? So great!

So much happens in these first books, setting up the world and these characters, to lead them to where they are in the later books, from the start of their romance, to the pack relationships, and the ties that bind them to this community! I just love to read it!

These were just so fantastic to read, and I can't wait to continue one!

Author: Patricia Briggs
Series: Mercy Thompson #1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
First Read: November 8th, 9th, 10th, 10th, 11th, 11th, 16th, 22nd, 2015, March 8th, 2016
Second Read: April 10th, 11th, 11th, 12th, 12th, 12th, 2017

Read: April 8th, 9th, 9th, 10th, 10th, 11th, 2023
Source: Own
Reason Why: Rereading! And they're Prequel & Sequel Challenge 2023 Books!
Publisher: Ace
Published: January 31st 2006, January 30th 2007, June 2nd 2008, February 2nd 2009, March 30th 2010, March 1st 2011

Moon Crossed: