Cry Wolf (Alpha & Omega, #1)

by Patricia Briggs

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July 29th 2008 by Ace

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Mass Market Paperback, 269 pages

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Charles Cornick, Anna Latham

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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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07/30/08

Julie (jjmachshev) rated it:

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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07/15/08

Rebecca rated it:

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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It was okay. Maybe 2 1/2 stars if I want to be nice. It wasn't Mercy Thompson, that's for sure. The suspense was never really there for me since I knew already, from the Mercy series, that Bran and Charles would be alive in the end.

Anna was rescued by Charles (a tall, handsome, half- American Indian). He saved her from a brutalizing Alpha wolf in Chicago, who had kept her captive for 3 years. Injured, but in love, he brings Anna to Montana to be his mate. After arriving in Mo...more

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08/01/08

Amanda rated it:

recommends it for: Patricia Briggs completists only

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Sadly, Patricia Brigg's new series seems to be more about the romance than about the ass kicking. The Mercedes series is fresh, fun, interesting, and if there's romance and sexual tension, it's just part of Mercy's life, not the whole point.

This thing was a bodice ripper in wolf's clothing. (HA! I made a funny!) Not ever a really good bodice ripper. The main character -- is it telling that I can't even remember her name? -- was badly abused for three years, physically, mentally, sex...more Sadly, Patricia Brigg's new series seems to be more about the romance than about the ass kicking. The Mercedes series is fresh, fun, interesting, and if there's romance and sexual tension, it's just part of Mercy's life, not the whole point.

This thing was a bodice ripper in wolf's clothing. (HA! I made a funny!) Not ever a really good bodice ripper. The main character -- is it telling that I can't even remember her name? -- was badly abused for three years, physically, mentally, sexually, emotionally. She was repeated raped, beaten, etc. And it seems to magically evaporate because a man with big strong shoulders rescued her.

Okay, okay, there is some context for that in the book -- the wacky pack politics -- and if there had been a strong plot and characters I would have enjoyed the book.

Especially since she was going to start telling us more about The Marrock. The whole structure she's created for her wolves is fascinating and I was really looking forward to learning more about wolves outside of Mercy's world.

Alas, we get a slight story about a witch trying to kill some random other wolf. The whole thing is very heavily dependant upon back story that we've never heard of before. There's Asil ("The Moor") and his dead Omega wife and his sociopath foster daughter who has been hunting him down for 200 years in a jealous sexual rage. (Issues much?) There's the fact that The Marrock was turned by his mother (?!) and then went berserker (!!??) for however many years and his depredations were the stuff of legends (Literally: Grendel is based on this period of time!)

And of course, there's every bad book's favorite device: Unholy coincidence. It just so happens that a surpassing rare Omega shows up at exactly the moment that the witch (who has some how, against all internal logic) stolen the mating bond of one of the only other Omega wolves in history. It just so happens that an Omega shows up just as The Marrock, a berserker of epic levels, is about to lose his shit. And, of course, it just so happens that she's mated (more or less against her will) to the bad-ass assassin who gets sent against the witch who just happens to be The Marrock's son.

Never mind the convolutions she needs to do with her own magic system to make this farce of a plot go.

That's a little too many happenstances for me.

The writing itself, the prose I mean, was up to Briggs's usual competence. In the middle of a heat wave, I was chilled reading her sections on hiking in the Cabinet Mountains in winter.

But apparently she's an author with just one main character in her -- Mercy -- because the first chapter from the next Mercy book stuck in the end was just fantastic!(less)

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07/29/08

Angie rated it:

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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 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 immediately after the events of "Alpha and Omega," Anna finds herself and her few belongings bundled up and on her way to Montana with a wounded Charles and his father, the enigmatic Bran, otherwise known as the Marrok, aka leader of the entire werewolf population of North America. Nervous and unsure of just what she's gotten herself into, Anna suddenly finds herself living at Charles's house, attending werewolf funerals, and embroiled in the same kind of wolf politics she was assiduously kept out of during her time with the Chicago pack. Unsurprisingly, it's one step forward, two steps back for Anna as she attempts to settle into her new life and decide whether or not she even wants to carve out a place for herself with Charles--a still waters run deep sort of man who is reserved, doesn't like crowds, but is also the Marrok's chief assassin.

Anna is a very different breed of heroine from Mercy. After being changed, she was never given the chance to get her bearings and accept her new life. The cool thing about being an Omega (something she is only just beginning to figure out about herself) is she has all of the protective instincts of an Alpha, without any of the violence. This makes her strong and able to influence the mood of every wolf around her. The lame thing is that without those violent instincts, she can be taken advantage of and manipulated to a rather spectacular degree. I liked that this first book didn't rush things. There is plenty of ground left to cover as far as Anna's untapped abilities go and whether or not she and Charles will be able to bridge the still vast gulf between them. I loved the extra time we got to spend with Bran--one of the most interesting characters in this world. I'm looking forward to more on his background and his mate. Because, even though she's heinous, I feel particularly sorry for Leah. It's no kind of life she's got right now and I find myself harboring a little hope for her and her Marrok.

Lastly, Cry Wolf just happens to include a sneak peak of the first chapter of Bone Crossed--the fourth Mercy Thompson book. Did I skip to the back and read it first before delving into Cry Wolf? Maybe...(less)

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12/11/08

KatiKat rated it:

bookshelves: 2009, ebooks, in-english, paranormal-het

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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08/07/08

Keely rated it:

bookshelves: werewolves-and-vampires

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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07/19/08

Jeffrey rated it:

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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02/22/09

Stacie rated it:

bookshelves: currently-own, fantasy, fiction

Read in January, 2009

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07/27/08

Birdy Nelson rated it:

Read in July, 2008

recommended to Birdy by: friend
recommends it for: Fans of the Mercy Series

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03/07/09

Brandy rated it:

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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07/30/08

Min rated it:

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.

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08/21/08

Angie rated it:

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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12/27/08

Steff rated it:

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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07/05/09

Kat rated it:

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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06/29/09

Brownbetty rated it:

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 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 a Beta wolf. Omegas are apparently an incredibly rare class of werewolf who are outside the power dynamics of the pack, neither dominant or subordinate, and apparently other wolves, especially alphas, find it incredibly relaxing to be around a wolf over whom they do not have to assert their authority. Strangely, all the careful attention paid to power dynamics makes this book seem less kinktastic than some werewolf books which seem to take place in a leather convention.

I'm guessing that the short story ends with her accepting Charles' protection, and by implication, his feelings for her, because the book begins with them in an uneasy relationship, Anna half-ways trusting Charles, but frightened by his power over her. Her wolf aspect trusts him completely, and has accepted him as her mate, but her human aspect is not ready for sex, and conditioned by her years of abuse to trust no one.

This aspect of the story, the "romance," is fairly well done. Anna sometimes uses her wolf-aspect to get her through situations her human aspect can't handle, and gives Charles the wrong idea of her psychological state. As an abuse-recovery narrative, it's a bit magically easy, but it seemed "realistic" within those parameters.

The problem for me was Charles. He's half Salish, and Anna is fascinated by his features and skin in a way which bothered me. It's fairly well done, as such things go, but the word "exotic" is actually used to describe him, from her POV. It's not egregious, and Briggs has clearly done research to learn as much as she could about the culture and history, it mostly left me going "I'm not sure how I feel about this."

Awesome: a lapsed Muslim character who occupies a secondary place in the narrative. As a werewolf, ageless, he dates from the Moorish occupation of Spain.

All in all, enjoyable.(less)

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04/12/09

Jennifer rated it:

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 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- indicating the existence of said short story. I've encountered this problem in a couple of urban fantasies lately (notably Charlaine Harris' Southern Vampire novels and Kim Harrison's Rachel Morgan books) and it's driving me bonkers.

In Kim Harrison's case I had actually read the short stories at their respective time of publishing, though I hadn't particularly liked any of them so I didn't buy them nor did I reread them) so when I read her most recent novel that suddenly draws so heavily on the plots of -all- of them I was at least able to follow along.

In both Harris and Brigg's case (and you knew this had to be in Brigg's case or I wouldn't've brought it up in a book review for her) I was vaguely aware that she had written short stories but I didn't know when they fell or even if they were related. It wasn't until I started reading a book and realized I hadn't the faintest idea what was going on and did I miss a book somewhere, are you -sure- that's the next one chronologically, that I started digging for short stories. I was able to find them, and read them, and continue in a world that makes sense, but I work in a bookstore. I have the advantage of knowing my way around a fairly extensive database and I can immediately turn around and put my hands on the anthologies in question. If I didn't, if I would have to make a special trip to a bookstore hoping there would be such a story and that they would have it in stock, if I had to hope that a librarian could help me track it down and get it for me, if I had to purchase it sight unseen online and then -wait- for it to show up, I really don't think I'd bother for anything less than my greatest obsessions. And, if you recall Kim Harrison, in that case I read them when they were published.

Jim Butcher, it's worth mentioning, does a fabulous job of writing short stories that amuse as anecdotes but aren't suddenly the missing piece of a novel's plot.

And that's what we're looking at here: a problem where a side project, a story which is not included, is pivotal to the events of the book you're reading. One expects, when reading a series, that if you read them in order you'll understand what is going one. In great series, even if you get the order wrong, you'll be told enough (in a manner that isn't pure exposition) to catch up. This is, increasingly, not the case.

Specifically, with regards to Cry Wolf by Patricia Briggs, a novel that is listed as Book 1 in a spin-off to her Mercy Thompson books, there is a short story which covers -all- of the events described on the back cover. I literally worried that my book was put together incorrectly, with the last chapter being printed in the first chapter's place. If I hadn't purchased the book (a dear expense, even with my discount), if I hadn't been stuck on a bus with nothing else to read, if I hadn't been told by a trusted friend that it's good, I would've dropped it two pages into the first chapter because, and I'm going to use capslock here because this can't be emphasized enough, I COULDN'T FIGURE OUT WHAT WAS GOING ON!

If they had included a note that this book starts off where a short story, located in such-and-such anthology, left off I could've read them in the correct order. If they'd included the short story, or even an abridged version, I would've known what was going on. I read her other books, I had a vague idea of the politics that created the situation here Cry Wolf is set, and the only reason I knew anything about the story, the only clue I had to what was going on, was the blurb on the back. I normally avoid blurbs like the plague, picking books on recommendations, because they invariably ruin some aspect of the story. In this case it was a lifeline while drowning at sea - a lifeline that wasn't actually attached to anything, mind.

That said, if you read Moon Called and the short story "Alpha and Omega" located in the anthology On the Prowl first, it's a cute story that will fill a jonesing for more Mercy Thompson. It's not as developed and it certainly doesn't stand alone, but fans will enjoy it.
Newcomers won't get past page 8.(less)

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02/05/09

Rhianna rated it:

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 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 Bran, the Marrok, wants to know for sure. It's possible the attacks may be an attempt to scare Bran because he has been talking about revealing the existence of werewolves to the rest of the world. Who better to send than his enforcer and his Omega? When Anna and Charles set off into the mountains to uncover the truth they end up meeting up with something even scarier than another werewolf. If they can't defeat this new evil every werewolf in North America is in danger.

While some reviewers will disagree, having read Cry Wolf, I feel that it is essential that the short-story "Alpha and Omega" from On the Prowl be read before reading this book. Even having read the short-story I was a little lost trying to understand the dynamic of the Omega wolf. Maybe I'm a bit thick but even now that I've finished Cry Wolf I find myself with questions and confusion. Doh!

I wanted to love this book. I'm a huge fan of the Mercy Thompson series, which is also set in this world, and living in Montana I was hoping that Briggs would give the same loving care to it she has to the Tri-Cities in Mercy's series. But I just didn't feel it. The story felt almost... drawn from a hat. I loved Asil, Sage, Tag and Walter, it had great supporting characters. Anna is alright, but I felt like she was closed off from me as a reader, as if we really didn't get to see too much into who she is. Charles was much the same but having read of him in Mercy's series I've never liked him and found him dull as a hero. I'll give the series another shot certainly, but this opener just didn't win my heart as I had hoped. (less)

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11/18/08

Jean rated it:

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 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 Moon Called and the Alpha and Omega novella (contained in a collection called "On the Prowl") first. The best part of the book was getting to see how Bran's pack works, and even better, getting some scenes from Bran's POV. You actually learn quite a lot this character who is the leader of all the North American werewolves. A new character with a fascinating history, Asil, is also introduced. Unlike the Mercy Thompson novels which are all told through Mercy's eyes, the POV in the Cry Wolf constantly shifts, mostly between the two main characters, Charles and Anna, but also includes a few others (Bran, for example.) Charles and Anna don't hold my attention quite as well as Mercy, so I appreciated the shifting perspectives--it worked well for this book, keeping things fresh. It allowed the author to explore werewolf life from the perspectives of both young and old werewolves from completely different backgrounds. I enjoyed their stories.

One complaint carries over from the novella: Charles and Anna are thrust together romantically by forces outside their will. I never like that sort of premise. In the novel, they must basically get to know one another and at this point at least, things move a little more slowly between them, but there is never any uncertainty that they will be together (at least, not to the reader.) In the romance and in the plot in general, there was very little of the suspense I enjoyed in the author's other novels.

Unlike the Mercy Thompson novels, which I feel have slightly rushed climaxes, Cry Wolf has a much more drawn-out story, especially during the climax. Here is where I felt that the author struggled. Most of the "action" is contained inside the characters' heads. The shifting perspectives was necessary here, but it also got confusing and ran too long. I plan on reading the next when she writes it, particularly in hopes of getting more insights into Bran.(less)

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03/15/09

Erin rated it:

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 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 of her former pack. Anna isn't quite as compelling of a lead character as Mercedes, but the romance written between Anna and Charles, a dominant wolf and son of the Alpha of all Alphas -- the Marrock -- is great stuff.

The book follows Anna and Charles as they learn to navigate their unexpected relationship while tracking a black witch trying to harm the werewolf pack. Much of the novel takes place as the pair wander through the backwoods of Montana -- but readers don't need to be concerned about boredom. This is a page-turner.

I think fans of Briggs' Mercy Thompson books will most enjoy this book, but you don't have to have read that series to get lost in this story. Some of the characters from that series do make an appearance in the book, and the events of both series are supposed to be occuring simultaneously. I hope that at some point, the series will converge.

The one caveat I would add: make sure to track down the novella "Alpha and Omega" that preceeds this novel. I didn't read that short piece first, and in the first few chapters, I repeatedly checked the front cover just to make sure I really was reading the first book in the series. It really feels like readers are thrown into the story mid-stream. The novella apparently explains Charles and Anna's meeting and her forced Change at the hands of the Chicago pack. I'll have to read that eventually just to plug in the missing pieces.

The second book in Alpha and Omega, Hunting Ground, is due out in August 2009. It's a long time to wait... but that's the curse of these addictive book series, I guess. (less)

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12/12/08

Lori rated it:

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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...