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Iron Kissed (Mercy Thompson, #3)

Patricia Briggs

Start date: March 1, 2021

Finish date: March 31, 2021

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Challenges: What's the Rush

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Jun 13, 2010 Katyana rated it it was amazing

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

Wow. Just wow. Honestly, I really don't even know what to say. The whole book was great, but the last 50 pages were truly extraordinary. Just wow.

Re-read March 2017 - When I started the series re-read, I was nervous about this book. Not because it isn't fantastic, but because... I remember what happens in the last 20%, and I was dreading it.

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Aug 26, 2009 Samantha wickedshizuku Tolleson rated it really liked it

Shelves: female-lead, can-i-live-in-this-book, reviewed, 4-stars, paranormal, not-manga, 2010, thrice-read, 2011, 2015

Excellently done plotline, and continuation of Mercy Thomson still getting into some sort of trouble. This time Mercy is taken into the fold of the fae world with her former gremlin boss Zee. Looking for a mysterious murderer to clear Zee's name. Enjoy everybody, I know I certainly did.
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Feb 15, 2017 Monica rated it it was amazing

Shelves: fiction, own, fantasy, favorites, 2017-yearly-challenge-tcf

Wow!! I loved this book. I forgot how great Mercy is!! I love her attitude and how independent she wants to be. Mercy has a tendency to find trouble or trouble finds her.

Iron Kissed is about fae's being murdered. Mercy is asked to help figure out who is killing the fae on the reservation. When she does discover who the murderer is Zee and Uncle Mike decide to confront the suspect and happen to walk and find the man dead.

This ultimately leaves Zee holding the bag for the murder. This prompts Merc ...more

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Jun 23, 2011 Marsha rated it really liked it

Mercy wants very much to NOT be the hero or dragged into another life threatening situation, but that's just not the case (AGAIN). Her old friend and former boss, Zee, requested her assistance to help in a very private and important Fae matter. Unfortunately, her assistance not only put a bulls-eye on her forehead for the head Fae (the Gray Lords) because she inadvertently learned too much while assisting Zee. Zee on the other hand, soon found himself in serious trouble and only Mercy volunteere Mercy wants very much to NOT be the hero or dragged into another life threatening situation, but that's just not the case (AGAIN). Her old friend and former boss, Zee, requested her assistance to help in a very private and important Fae matter. Unfortunately, her assistance not only put a bulls-eye on her forehead for the head Fae (the Gray Lords) because she inadvertently learned too much while assisting Zee. Zee on the other hand, soon found himself in serious trouble and only Mercy volunteered to help him out. Oh, and her love life took a few twists and turns as well!

I enjoyed Iron Kissed, but Mercy seems to be both stronger in her conviction to help others at whatever the cost (though she always seemed to have that attitude), with a healthy (or maybe unhealthy) dose of lower self assurance. I'm not sure that's the word I'm looking for or not. She is still stubborn but, she doesn't seem to be a sure of herself as she was in the earlier books. But, I think that gave her more of a well rounded character than before- that was one of my complaints about Mercy's character in the first book (she was lacking depth of character and didn't seem to have enough emotional depth).

I'm glad that Mercy has finally made a decision regarding Adam and Samuel. (view spoiler)
I do plan to read the next book in the series and can't wait! ...more

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