Cry Wolf (Alpha & Omega, #1)

by Patricia Briggs
Cry Wolf (Alpha & Omega, #1)
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July 29th 2008 by Ace

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Mass Market Paperback, 269 pages

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The United States

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0441016154    (isbn13: 9780441016150)

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Now Briggs begins an extraordinary new series set in Mercy Thompson's world, but with rules of its own.

INTRODUCING THE ALPHA AND OMEGA NOV...more




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Julie (jjmachshev)
07/30/08
Julie (jjmachshev) rated it: 4 of 5 stars

bookshelves: 2008-reads
Read in July, 2008
Happy dance commencing. I should start out by saying I'm a fan of Patricia Briggs' books since "Moon Called", the first Mercedes Thompson book. So I was anxious to get my hands on "Cry Wolf" which is set in Mercy's world, but isn't about Mercy per se.

I really like the fact that the heroine in this book is Anna. In the last Mercedes book, Anna was introduced as the horribly brutalized, forcibly turned Omega. In "Cry Wolf" Anna is finding her strength,...more
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Rebecca
07/15/08
Rebecca rated it: 2 of 5 stars

bookshelves: fantasy
Has a copy to sell/swap — Read in August, 2008
recommended to Rebecca by: Amazon
recommends it for: urban fantasy "romance" fans
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Amanda
08/01/08
Amanda rated it: 2 of 5 stars

recommends it for: Patricia Briggs completists only
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Angie
07/29/08
Angie rated it: 4 of 5 stars

bookshelves: good-uns
Read in July, 2008
With the release of Cry Wolf (the first in a new series), Patricia Briggs fans can now look forward to two Briggs books coming out per year. A Mercy Thompson in the winter and an Alpha and Omega in the summer. So. Very. Awesome. After inhaling the original "Alpha and Omega" short story in On the Prowl last year, I could hardly wait to follow Anna and Charles's story in full-length book form and now, having finished it, I can honestly say it was a treat.

Picking up immediat...more
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KatiKat
12/11/08
KatiKat rated it: 4 of 5 stars

Read in March, 2009
I didn't like this book as much as the Mercy Thompson series - Anna's mood swings during the first half of the story were just plain annoying and the book relied too much on romance. On the other hand, I really love Patricia Briggs' world and I loved Charles, Samuel, Bran, Tag, Asil and Sage very much. And I actually teared up in some places - Patricia Briggs has a great talent for emotional scenes: Doc Wallace's funeral, Walter's fate... So yeah, I do prefer the "Mercedes Thompson" se...more
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Keely
08/07/08
Keely rated it: 4 of 5 stars

Read in August, 2008
I always read through Patricia Briggs' werewolf novels as if I were eating down to the bottom of a bag of potato chips. She's very good at writing the page turner where at the end of every chapter there's some situation of heightened action or heightened emotion that forces you to continue reading even when you have other things to do such as sleep. Her writing is solid, but nothing special. It's her talent for constructing characters and placing them in dangerous, emotionally trying situations ...more
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Jeffrey
07/19/08
Jeffrey rated it: 3 of 5 stars

bookshelves: read-in-2008, supernatural
Read in September, 2008
recommends it for: Briggs fans
One of the problems with this book is it seems to start in the middle of a story so the first 50 pages are almost incoherent even if you, like me had read, the Mercy Thompson books. There apparently is a back story here in which one of the main characters rescues the other from an evil head wolf of a pack that answers to Bran, but its not easy to understand this story as its not set right out in the book.

Still when I kind of got the hang of it, the book turned out pretty good as it ...more
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Stacie
02/22/09
Stacie rated it: 2 of 5 stars

bookshelves: currently-own, fantasy, fiction
Read in January, 2009
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Birdy Nelson
07/27/08
Birdy Nelson rated it: 5 of 5 stars

Read in July, 2008
recommended to Birdy by: friend
recommends it for: Fans of the Mercy Series
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Brandy
03/07/09
Brandy rated it: 4 of 5 stars

Read in March, 2009
I liked the book. There were times it was slow and felt as though Anna's story was dragging a little. I wanted her to get over everything. But at the same time I tried to understand what she had been through and it would take some time for her to feel safe.
I was glad though to see her let go of herself a few times and enjoy Charles.
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Min
07/30/08
Min rated it: 3 of 5 stars

Read in July, 2008
I waffled between two and three stars for this book. It was entertaining enough, but it just seemed... less, somehow - especially when compared to the Mercy Thompson books. I'll probably still read the second book in this series - goodness knows it is probably rather difficult to create new characters in an established world, so it could be reconcilement-related issues that are marring this book for me.

If you're a fan of her work, I don't think you'll find that this book is a waste ...more
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Angie
08/21/08
Angie rated it: 2 of 5 stars

I really liked the Mercedes Thompson series by Patricia Briggs (Moon called, Blood Bound, and Iron Kissed)and was excited to read this first book of a new spinoff series. It wasn't nearly as good as I expected. It seems to start off in the middle of the story - I had to double-check that this was the 1st book and not the 2nd. It took me a while to figure out what was going on and to get my bearings. Also, if you haven't read the Mercedes Thompson series, you will be even more confused. This book...more
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Steff
12/27/08
Steff rated it: 4 of 5 stars

Charles Cornick has been a werewolf for a very long time and he has never needed anyone or anything other than his family and his pack. His life, until this point, has been about being the enforcer for the Marrok, leader of the North American werewolves. As a powerful alpha he has never had a problem completing any of the jobs the Marrok, who also happens to be his father, has assigned him. At least until Anna.

Anna Latham is one of the rarest of werewolves, an Omega. She is neith...more
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Kat
07/05/09
Kat rated it: 4 of 5 stars

bookshelves: fantasy
Read in July, 2009
Patricia Briggs continue to impress me as an author I quite literally stumbled upon years ago, loved, and have kept reading even when she changed genres from "high" fantasy to urban fantasy. Not that I don't love UF, I do, it just wasn't what I expected at first as her high fantasy world was so rich and interesting.

This novel is set in the same world as the Mercy thompson books, but involving different characters. I think it's a measure of Briggs's talent that she can int...more
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Brownbetty
06/29/09
Brownbetty rated it: 3 of 5 stars

Read in June, 2009
The beginning of this story takes place in a short-story I have not read, and I find that unspeakably annoying. Do I really have to buy a collection of short stories for the sake of one I'm interested in? Couldn't they have collected it with this one? I would pay an extra dollar for the volume.

Backwards engineering from this story, in the short story, Charles Cornick finds Anna in a pack where she was, as an "Omega," raped and abused in an attempt to make her behave like...more
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Jennifer
04/12/09
Jennifer rated it: 3 of 5 stars

bookshelves: 2009, fantasy, urban
Read in April, 2009
recommended to Jennifer by: yochannah
I understand the marketing strategy behind writing a short story and having it advance the timeline in a world. You reference it in your novel, rather than including it, and people have to buy the anthology in which it was published to find out what happened. It makes sense.

HOWEVER, when said short story contains -major- -plot- -points- which are instrumental to having even the faintest clue what is happening in the book one is currently reading, there should be a note -somewhere- i...more
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Rhianna
02/05/09
Rhianna rated it: 1 of 5 stars

Read in August, 2008
Turned against her will and abused by her pack back in Chicago, Anna was saved by Charles Cornick. Son of the Marrok, the leader of all North American werewolves, Charles is an enforcer and killer for his father. When his inner wolf chose Anna as his mate he brought her back to Montana with him. But the honeymoon isn't over... it hasn't even begun.

There's trouble stirring in the winter-kissed woods of north-western Montana. People are being attacked by what must be a werewolf and Br...more
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Jean
11/18/08
Jean rated it: 3 of 5 stars

Read in November, 2008
I definitely enjoyed this more than the novella, Alpha and Omega, that preceded the first novel in this series, though I didn't enjoy it as much as Mercy Thompson. I read on the author's blog that she had a little difficulty pulling this book together and in places I can feel it. For the most part it was fairly well-written but at times seemed forced.

This book focuses on two werewolves in a pack we meet in the first Mercy Thompson novel, Moon Called. I'd recommend reading both Mo...more
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Erin
03/15/09
Erin rated it: 5 of 5 stars

Read in March, 2009
Oh Patricia Briggs, how you distract me. When I have a book of yours in my possession, I just can't seem to get anything else done until the last page has been turned.

I was not at all surprised to find Cry Wolf, the first book in Briggs' new Alpha and Omega series as deliciously addictive as its companion series starring herione Mercedes Thompson. I quickly got sucked into the story of Anna, a rare and precious "Omega" werewolf recovering from abuse suffered at the hands o...more
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Lori
12/12/08
Lori rated it: 3 of 5 stars

bookshelves: paranormal
Read in December, 2008
I almost bailed on this one halfway through. Even though this is book 1 of a series, it appears to be a spin-off of another of Briggs' wolf series, and that was confusing. I think I might have read some or all of the others. There was just enough familiar about some of the characters that I was pretty sure. But since this is Book 1 in a new series, it shouldn't have read like I'd missed some seriously important events, which is exactly how this felt. It felt like a five-book series, and I w...more
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"And that's when Anna realized that what the wolf had been asking Bran for was death. Impulsively, Anna stepped away from Charles. She put a knee on the bench she'd been sitting on and reached over the back to close her hand on Asil's wrist, which was lying across the back of the pew. He hissed in shock but didn't pull away. As she held him the scent of wilderness, of sickness, faded. He stared at her, the whites of his eyes showing brightly while his irises narrowed to small bands around his black pupil. "Omega," he whispered, his breath coming harshly." More quotes...


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