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Bone Crossed by Patricia Briggs

Blurb: In a world where “witches, vampires, werewolves, and shape-shifters live beside ordinary people” (Booklist), it takes a very unusual woman to call it home. By day, Mercy Thompson is a car mechanic in Eastern Washington. By night, she explores her preternatural side. As a shape-shifter with some unusual talents, Mercy’s found herself maintaining a tenuous harmony between the human and the not-so- human on more than one occasion. This time she may get more than she bargained for.

Warning: Spoilers Ahead

Bone Crossed is the forth book in the Mercy Thompson series and the first hardcover. It takes up where the last book, Iron Kissed, left off.  Mercy is still trying to come to terms with the rape in the last book. She is also trying to come to terms with how she feels for Adam and the pack. She accepts Adam as her mate, but Adam delays the consummation of the mating until he feels she is up to it. Just as well.

The vampires come into it, too. In fact, tons of pages in Bone Crossed is devoted to vampires and their nearly Byzantine ways. When one threatens her, the other lures her where he can get at her and later she finds out she was being used to help the vampire get rid of minions with powerful connections. Vampire politics – Marsilia’s politics in any case – struck me as complicated.

Mercy has a revelation in this story, she realizes why she didn’t want to become Adam’s mate. It’s because she doesn’t want to depend on anyone, doesn’t want to betrayed again. She doesn’t want to put herself in a position to be rejected. And she will be, because she is not a wolf and anything else will be hard for the pack to accept.

The oddest part of Bone Crossed is Mercy’s mother. She appears in the beginning and before she did, I had no idea that her mother had played much of a role in her life. It was very strange.

All in all, Bone Crossed was an excellent. It was a quick read and filled with near constant action. Yet there were quite a few introspective moments.

Grade: B+

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October 23rd, 2009 | Tags: , , , , , , , | Category: Uncategorized

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