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Mercy is a lone shifter in a world where werewolves, vampires, and other creatures of the night are on the brink of public discovery. Usually the different supernatural groups avoid/kill one another, but Mercy tends to find herself involved with them all. Mercy takes in a drifter teen to find out he is a new werewolf on the run. Someone has found a drug that works on weres and is kidnapping humans to use as test subjects. Mercy has to enlist the help of the local pack, and save the alpha's kidna
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Mercy Thompson is a shifter, she can turn into a coyote at will, who owns a garge in Washington state. One day a terrified new werewolf shows up at her garage. Mercy manages to get him to the local pack alpha, Adam. Things go sideways, Adam's daughter is kidnapped, and Mercy ends up in the middle of it all. I thought this was a great start to the series. There's enough background given that the world wasn't confusing while still having plenty of action. Mercy and all the main characters are grea
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This was fun. Mercy is a complicated person...she'll go to church, bake cookies, repair a car's engine and then shoot some bad guys. Oh yeah, and she also happens to be able to turn into a coyote.
This is , as I often say about pure pleausure reads, the literary equivalent of eating potato chips or buttered popcorn. It's meant to be fun and it sure is hard to stop once you get started. Briggs is a talented writer. Her dialogue is snappy and occasionally hilarious.
She also writes vivid, believabl ...more
This is , as I often say about pure pleausure reads, the literary equivalent of eating potato chips or buttered popcorn. It's meant to be fun and it sure is hard to stop once you get started. Briggs is a talented writer. Her dialogue is snappy and occasionally hilarious.
She also writes vivid, believabl ...more

A fun fast read. Engaging characters, but unfortunately, once you've read one I'm-a-tough-chick-investigating-a-murder-with-werewolves-but-I'm not-really-a-werewolf-but-kinda-sorta-am, you've read them all. I will turn to this series again when I'm looking for a quick fun book.
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