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Book 85, 2017
Oct. 1st, 2017 01:54 pmI stayed up a bit late last night, but I finished reading Silence Fallen by Patricia Briggs, which is part of her "Mercy Thompson" urban fantasy series.
On a late night run to the local convenience store, Mercy's SUV is deliberately struck, and she is kidnapped from the wreckage. Things go from bad to worse when Mercy realizes that her abductor is none other than the so-called Lord of the Night--the most powerful vampire in Europe, if not the world. Also, Mercy learns she is in Italy, and that she is too far from home to be able to communicate with her Alpha husband, Adam.
Adam, in the meanwhile, is furious and frantic to get Mercy back. Bonarata, the Lord of the Night, wants to negotiate, and Adam selects a small team of paranormals to jet to Italy with him, including the Mistress of the local vampire seethe, a powerful witch, and a goblin.
Mercy, however, isn't waiting around to be rescued. She engineers her own escape, after shifting into her coyote form, and she stows away aboard a bus, in the luggage department. The bus deposits Mercy in Prague, where she has a new set of problems: she doesn't speak the language, she has no money, and oh yeah, she has no clothes. With help from friends old and new, as well as some guilt-ridden theft from the luggage, Mercy manages to get a message to the pack back home, and she seeks out the local Alpha to request sanctuary.
In Italy, Adam is growing ever more frustrated, as is his inner wolf. All he wants to do is kill someone, but instead, he's forced to use tact and diplomacy, which are not his strong suits. It's all he can do to keep his people alive and not start a war between werewolves and vampires.
When Mercy is forced to flee once more, she encounters other werewolves, vampires, ghosts, and the most powerful spirit in Prague. It may prove to be an ally, but then again, this spirit may have its own agenda.
The story was fabulous and engrossing, but it reminded me of an earlier book in this series, River Marked, in which Mercy and Adam are apart from the pack. One of the main reasons I love these books so much is because I enjoy reading about the pack bonds and their interactions, and I felt cheated out of it in this story. In addition, point of view kept switching from Mercy (first person) to Adam (third person), with another character thrown in willy-nilly as well. Then, to top it off, the timeline was inconsistent, which the author warned for up front. Frankly, I think she could have arranged her chapters so that they were in chronological order, but that's just my opinion.
Favorite lines:
♦ A powerful vampire who knew ASL and unself-consciously watched Scooby-Doo.
♦ I'd lived with magic my whole life--and not in a happy Harry Potter sort of way, either.
Scooby Doo and Harry Potter references, for the win!
Although I enjoyed the story, enough of it annoyed me that this is getting four stars instead of five:
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On a late night run to the local convenience store, Mercy's SUV is deliberately struck, and she is kidnapped from the wreckage. Things go from bad to worse when Mercy realizes that her abductor is none other than the so-called Lord of the Night--the most powerful vampire in Europe, if not the world. Also, Mercy learns she is in Italy, and that she is too far from home to be able to communicate with her Alpha husband, Adam.
Adam, in the meanwhile, is furious and frantic to get Mercy back. Bonarata, the Lord of the Night, wants to negotiate, and Adam selects a small team of paranormals to jet to Italy with him, including the Mistress of the local vampire seethe, a powerful witch, and a goblin.
Mercy, however, isn't waiting around to be rescued. She engineers her own escape, after shifting into her coyote form, and she stows away aboard a bus, in the luggage department. The bus deposits Mercy in Prague, where she has a new set of problems: she doesn't speak the language, she has no money, and oh yeah, she has no clothes. With help from friends old and new, as well as some guilt-ridden theft from the luggage, Mercy manages to get a message to the pack back home, and she seeks out the local Alpha to request sanctuary.
In Italy, Adam is growing ever more frustrated, as is his inner wolf. All he wants to do is kill someone, but instead, he's forced to use tact and diplomacy, which are not his strong suits. It's all he can do to keep his people alive and not start a war between werewolves and vampires.
When Mercy is forced to flee once more, she encounters other werewolves, vampires, ghosts, and the most powerful spirit in Prague. It may prove to be an ally, but then again, this spirit may have its own agenda.
The story was fabulous and engrossing, but it reminded me of an earlier book in this series, River Marked, in which Mercy and Adam are apart from the pack. One of the main reasons I love these books so much is because I enjoy reading about the pack bonds and their interactions, and I felt cheated out of it in this story. In addition, point of view kept switching from Mercy (first person) to Adam (third person), with another character thrown in willy-nilly as well. Then, to top it off, the timeline was inconsistent, which the author warned for up front. Frankly, I think she could have arranged her chapters so that they were in chronological order, but that's just my opinion.
Favorite lines:
♦ A powerful vampire who knew ASL and unself-consciously watched Scooby-Doo.
♦ I'd lived with magic my whole life--and not in a happy Harry Potter sort of way, either.
Scooby Doo and Harry Potter references, for the win!
Although I enjoyed the story, enough of it annoyed me that this is getting four stars instead of five:
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