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Storm Cursed (Mercy Thompson, #11)

Patricia Briggs

Start date: November 1, 2021

Finish date: November 30, 2021

Discussion: Challenges: What's the Rush

Why we're reading this: Part of our group series (re)read: Mercy Thompson

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Jun 06, 2019 Katyana rated it it was amazing

Shelves: ass-kicking-women, favorites, uf, shapeshifters, fantasy

I dragged my feet on starting this one - it has sat on my Kindle for a few weeks. Not because I was worried I wouldn't like it, but because the Mercy books are some of my favorite things, and starting it meant that I'd be ending it. Isn't that weird? I'm weird that way.

I loved it. As always. I love Coyote, and how he tugs threads into place to help Mercy, even though her abandonment issues make it hard for her to acknowledge he's helping her (she has the same issue with Bran). I love Adam. I lov I dragged my feet on starting this one - it has sat on my Kindle for a few weeks. Not because I was worried I wouldn't like it, but because the Mercy books are some of my favorite things, and starting it meant that I'd be ending it. Isn't that weird? I'm weird that way.

I loved it. As always. I love Coyote, and how he tugs threads into place to help Mercy, even though her abandonment issues make it hard for her to acknowledge he's helping her (she has the same issue with Bran). I love Adam. I love that the pack stands as protectors. I love Zee and Tad. I love Stephan, and I love Wulfe even as he scares the crap out of me and I don't really trust him. I'm curious to see how the events of this book change him going forward.

And Bran remains my favorite character, but he really wasn't in this book. That made me a little sad.

I liked feeling like the threads of multiple books are coming together - this witch family manipulating things, a thread that we saw play out in the Charles/Anna series too.

My only quibble is that we didn't get to see the fae / government meeting. I feel like ... Mercy should have played a key role there, just as she's really played a key role in everything regarding the fae. And I'd like to see the government eat a little crow, after how horribly they fucked things up with the murder of Beaufort's daughter. But I suppose Mercy did play that role, with the Senator and Ruth ... she made them open their eyes a little, and that's all to the good. Like Coyote, Mercy plays a subtle role, tweaking threads to land where they need to.

I suppose another quibble is (view spoiler)

I don't think I'm capable of not loving the Mercy books. And I'm sad to have gobbled this one down so fast - I have literally done nothing else today - but I couldn't help myself.

Re-read July 2024
I think I didn't, in my original readthrough, properly grasp the awesomeness of the threads from old books pulling together to point at the Hardesty witches - there is very good reason to believe they've been behind a lot of bullshit in the series overall. (view spoiler)

We've got a couple major characters in the series that are witchborn with unknown ancestry: Bran, Sherwood, Wulfe. I have to wonder if we're eventually going to find out that Bran's mother (witch who turned him and Samuel into a werewolf) is one of the ancestors of this witch-family line. Sherwood seems to not be - in this book Mercy repeatedly makes the point that his magic feels different, wilder, with that element of song ... that it's hard to imagine he'd be a relation. Wulfe, as well ... Mercy was shocked that his magic was pure, white, beautiful ... which doesn't seem like it is kin to the Hardesty witches. But then again, perhaps all those elements change when a witch slides into dark magic, tainting their magic into this greasy, stinky awfulness that taints everything. Given that Wulfe has been tangled into a lot of the Hardesty witch threads, it wouldn't be surprising if he is also of that family ... though he could also be from a rival family. (view spoiler) Overall, though, Wulfe is a fascinating, terrifying character - he's so broken that he's often unpredictable, though I've long-suspected that he plays that up to suit him. He knew what was up with Frost, and he was clearly aiding Marsilia in that fight (and Mercy - he stopped someone from getting her at least once in that book). In this book, he implied that he knew Frost was a witch, maybe even a Hardesty, and needed to be stopped. To that same end, he played the situation with Bonarata exactly right in the last book, pointing him at Mercy. I think there is a clever, calculating man in there who uses his brokenness as a smoke screen. So, as I said, he's both fascinating and terrifying. :) ...more

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May 13, 2019 Steph rated it it was amazing

Shelves: author-웃, series-ongoing, author-favorite, series-i-love, year-read-2019, favorites-2019, sos-games-bsb-r18, favorites-all-years

“That which doesn’t destroy us . . .”
“Leaves us scratching our heads and saying, ‘What’s next?’”

The beginning of the story felt rather "normal" in the world of Mercy since claiming the Tri-Cities under the pack's protection. She's called out to a farm where a goblin, who is a suspect in a murder, has been spotted. Then Larry (yep, a Goblin King named Larry) is called for support and things start to get really interesting.