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Fire Touched (Mercy Thompson, #9)

Patricia Briggs

Start date: September 1, 2021

Finish date: September 30, 2021

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Sep 21, 2015 S H A R O N rated it liked it

Shelves: fiction, urban-paranormal, urban-fantasy, arc-netgalley, 2016

The Mercy Thompson series is definitely one of my favorite urban fantasy/paranormal series out there right now. Even now -- on book 9 -- the stories remain fresh and interesting and Mercy continues to grow as a character.

It definitely made my day to get a copy of this arc! I'd been looking forward to this book and dove in the day I was approved. I was glad to see that this book centered more around the "fae" (which I prefer) than the "were". We finally get more insight into Underhill and the Gr ...more

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Apr 07, 2016 Cc rated it liked it

Shelves: 2016

Mercy and Adam

Although there was plenty of plot regarding the Fae the whole story read more like a textbook on Werewolf Pack Bonds.

Not my favorite Mercy Thompson book.

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Jan 23, 2018 Michelle rated it liked it

It was a Ok book a few exciting paragraphs just a solid tale of a day in the life if Mercy and Adam when they are presented with the task of keeping a young boy who has been lost in the fae reservation for many many years. the young boy who has not aged a day over ten is actually a man kept young by the powerful Underhill, who presents herself as a child his age she is powerful and also his greatest fear, from who he is running and as Mercy and Adam does they promise to protect him from the fae ...more

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Dec 27, 2014 Larissa rated it it was amazing

Quickie Review:

The Good:
Aiden, Sherwood, Baba Yaga... 😍
The story was awesome and the pace perfect :)

The Bad:
I wanted more interaction between Mercy and the pack

The Romance:
Mercy and Adam continue being relationship goals!

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Feb 19, 2015 Sharon rated it it was amazing

Most people have a go to comfort food. Book lovers also have comfort books/authors. These are books that no matter what, they will deliver exactly what we were looking for. I have a handful of authors that fall into this category and Briggs' Mercy Thompson series is near the top. I know I will get a well told and well written story about characters I know like old friends as well as opportunities to meet some new ones.

Fire Touched has Mercy and Adam thrown into Fae politics and their city set to ...more

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Oct 26, 2014 Catherine Banks rated it it was amazing

Shelves: adult-fantasy, werewolves, fae-sidhe-fairy, awesome-main-characters, favorite-adult-series, magic-users, shifters, mythical-creatures, fantasy

Another great book by Patricia Briggs in one of my favorite series, Mercy Thompson! A lot happened in a short time that really tested the wolves of the Columbia Basin Pack. I enjoyed seeing how far Mercy and Adam have come together and how much stronger Mercy has become. I cried over the death of an inanimate object at the end, which tells you how great Ms. Briggs’ writing is. I can't wait to see what the changes enacted in this book cause for the pack in the future and hope we get to see Stefan ...more

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Nov 24, 2019 Rachel-RN rated it really liked it

Shelves: read-2019

This was an improvement from the last book. Finally the pack fully accepts Mercy as one of their own. That constant pettiness and disrespect toward her was really, really aggravating. Let's hope it continues since that respect has been hard won. This opens with a troll invading their territory and a proclamation that Mercy makes. Zee and Tad are back. We are introduced to Aiden, a boy who has lived in Underhill for a very time that has ability over fire. There are new developments that happen wi ...more

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