QUESTION ABOUT MERCY AND ADAM (for those who have read the books)

[Paris (kerbytejas)]

New A+O book coming out in 2012 also....

[Ruby]

Lisa-Marie wrote: "Joy wrote: "Lisa-Marie wrote: "I have all the books and the spin off. so worth reading not as good as fever but hey what is?"

Fever??? book series???"

Karen Marie Moning dreamfever bloodfever dar..."

Really? Because I read the first book in the series recently and found it...well, not as good as others. So many people having been raving about it and I think it won a good reads award, but either I was a bit of a grump when I read it (which, let's face it, isn't unlikely) or the series gets much better as time goes on. I decided to get all of the books on my kindle initially as I thought, 'so many people can't be wrong' but if I didn't like the first installment, should I read the rest?

[Ruby]

Leanne wrote: "Kate and Curran are from the Kate Daniels series by Ilona Andrews, starts with Magic Bites. Great series!!"

Again I'm having issues...

I bought this book and got maybe a quater of the way in but found myself unengaged which is quite strange for me - I read everything! (No matter how truely awful).

I'm especially disappointed as I'd been wanting to read it for at least half a year and I've only just bought it for christmas. Should I give it another shot? Are there any main reasons that I will forever love it (and I don't mind being told spoilers if that helps).

[Paris (kerbytejas)]

Leanne - what book are you referring to? River Marked? or all of the Mercy Thompson books?
I found River Marked to be one of the weaker Mercy books, but the previous ones where enjoyable

[Leanne]

Hi Paris! I was referring to the whole Mercy Thompson series. River Marked was the shorter and weakest book in my opinion, but Mercy is a great character. I'm hoping the next one will be better... :)

Catlin, I thought Magic Bites and the all the other books have been great - don't want to give spoilers, but the storyline of Kate's parentage, her "unconventional" romance with Curran, and the situations/cases she works on, all are what I thought gave the series a different twist than others out there. Hopefully you will be able to give the book another chance?

[Ruby]

Thank you!!! :-)

[Paris (kerbytejas)]

It looks like we agree on River marked - I did enjoy the earlier books though -

[Jennifer]

Caitlin, the series gets stronger and more exciting. Book one was my least favorite but I am glad i stuck with the Magic series.

As for Mercy, River Marked was different - I believe it is taking the series in a new direction. In order for Mercy to learn more about herself and advance in life River Marked needed to happen. I also felt like Mercy and Adam needed to find themselves as a couple - without the pack. But oh how I missed them in this book. :)
Happy Reading. :)

[Aestas Book Blog]

so does that mean that they are in this book a lot or arent? just trying to understand the subtext in your post :P

I'm a romance book reader - so I like when couples are together and have happy endings... I just can't figure out if I'm gonna be disappointed or end up loving this series... maybe I need to wait till its over before I start it...

[Fangs for the Fantasy]

Jennifer wrote:As for Mercy, River Marked was different - I believe it is taking the series in a new direction. In order for Mercy to learn more about herself and advance in life River Marked needed to happen.

Is that really how you read that book? To me it felt like she was responding to critique about the fact that she has a native protagonist in name only. It read like one big wikipedia article.

[Ruby]

I don't know, I mean I was suprised to learn that another book was coming out in the series - that felt like the end to me. I thought the 'and they all lived happily ever after and still turned into animals' book that it pretty much was fit with the authors comparatively conservative style of writing and felt like a natural conclusion to her series.

[Rosezetta]

Aestas wrote: "haha ok perfect. as soon as this one comes out in soft cover, ill go out and buy them all... i just hate having like 5 soft covers and then 1 hard cover lol.

thank you for all your inputs! can't w..."

You can go to bomc2.com and get books 1-3 (in one book) for 12.95. In hardcover, and they have the rest of the books as well in hardcover for only 9.99. It has been a while since I have ordered from them, but when u create ur account, you use to get a book free. Just a thought, if you wanna check it out. Happy reading.

[Aestas Book Blog]

Rosezetta wrote: "Aestas wrote: "haha ok perfect. as soon as this one comes out in soft cover, ill go out and buy them all... i just hate having like 5 soft covers and then 1 hard cover lol.

thank you for all your ..."

Ooo that's kind of awesome. Thanks for the link!!

[Annie]

Mercy does not sleep around....and there romance builds during the 1st 3 books...you should read them...this is one of my fave series so far, its smart and beautifully written and keeps you interested from beginning to end...

[Adoore]

Have a quick questions I think I might of missed it but does anyone remember when Adam asked Mercy to marry him?

[Cheryl]

I believe they got married in River Marked so maybe the book before....although I think he'd been after her for a while. Is that what you meant or did you the actual event? It's been a while since I read them....but need to catch up as that was the last one I read.

[Adoore]

I meant the actual event I've read all of the books so far but I don't remember Adam proposing to Mercy. To me a proposal is kind of a big deal.

[April]

Adam technically never proposed to Mercy. In Silver Borne he told her they would get married.

Here's the passage:

“One more month," he said finally. "And then they—and Samuel, too—will just have to get used to it. His eye is the color of a bitch with dark chocolate, worst few years and he leaned forward. "And you will marry me."
I smiled, showing my teeth. "Don't you mean, ‘will you marry me?’"
I meant it to be funny, but his eyes brightened until the gold flecks were swimming in the darkness. "You had your chance to run, coyote. It's too late now.”

[Alexandra]

^^ and on a thread where the OP specifically asked for no spoilers!!!

[Michielle]

Alexandra wrote: "^^ and on a thread where the OP specifically asked for no spoilers!!!"

Where does it say that? The title I see is
"QUESTION ABOUT MERCY AND ADAM (for those who have read the books) "
I see that as implying there may be spoilers. Even though the OP asked for no spoilers, it was posted 3 years ago.

[Becky ♡The Bookworm♡]

With all due respect, that doesn't mean everyone has read the book. I read River Marked just this summer. It's very simple to use spoiler tags and thus not ruin the story or key points for others.

[Michielle]

Becky ♡The Bookworm♡ wrote: "With all due respect, that doesn't mean everyone has read the book. I read River Marked just this summer. It's very simple to use spoiler tags and thus not ruin the story or key points for others."


Very true Becky. There are a lot of books on my TBR list. And I am way behind on the the recently released books. I try to avoid any threads that discuss any of the books or series I have not read or caught up on. I have to admit, my comment was mostly because I got my feathers a bit ruffled by the way Alexandra addressed the situation. I did not handle it well at all.

And I don't think a lot of posters intentionally post spoilers. I think we follow some threads for a long time and get invested in them and forget to go back and read the original posting. Maybe read the title when replying to a post.

[Adoore]

April wrote: "Adam technically never proposed to Mercy. In Silver Borne he told her they would get married.

Here's the passage:

“One more month," he said finally. "And then they—and Samuel, too—will just hav..."

Thank you April for the information I finally finished reading them all. I just love this series and Mercy is one of my all time favorite female heroines.

[Becky ♡The Bookworm♡]

Michielle wrote: "Becky ♡The Bookworm♡ wrote: "With all due respect, that doesn't mean everyone has read the book. I read River Marked just this summer. It's very simple to use spoiler tags and thus not ruin the s..."

No worries, Michelle. : ) I completely understand. I stay away from discussions if I haven't read the book, too. It works most of the time, but every once in awhile someone refers to a future book in a series. This happened to me recently and I hadn't finished the next installment.

Little things don't bother me too much, but in this particular case (not this thread, it was another series altogether) the poster was trying to prove a point about book "A" and gave a complete rundown of book "B." Essentially she gave away the entire story. I was at 40% at the time and finished it knowing what the end result would be, just not exactly how the characters got there. I could've screamed. It's like saying "Joe did it!" in the middle of a murder mystery! Makes me batty.

Adoore...so glad you enjoyed them! I just love the world Ms. Briggs has created and downloaded:

I can't wait to start reading!

[April]

Alexandra wrote: "^^ and on a thread where the OP specifically asked for no spoilers!!!"

Where's the outrage on the older posts right above mine talking about them getting married and trying to remember the proposal? What I posted was more of a teaser. That's not even a key point. All you have to do is read the blurbs on the back of the books or even the descriptions and you know they get married.

Adoore wrote: "April wrote: "Adam technically never proposed to Mercy. In Silver Borne he told her they would get married.

Here's the passage:

“One more month," he said finally. "And then they—and Samuel, too..."

No problem. I just started the series earlier in the year, and recently just finished Frost Burn so most of the big parts are still fresh in my mind.

[Becky ♡The Bookworm♡]

"April wrote: "Where's the outrage on the older posts right above mine talking about them getting married and trying to remember the proposal?"

Posting a large block of text from a book is the epitome of a spoiler. It's very, very easy to put the spoiler tags around it and therefore avoid any ruffled feathers. It works like this (take out the asterisks):

<*spoiler*>John did it! <*/spoiler*>

In doing so, those who don't want to see the info have a CHOICE about clicking on the link. We only see this:

(view spoiler)[John did it! (hide spoiler)]

Editing a post is pretty simple too. As Michielle said, most spoilers are unintentional, or it dawns on the poster after the fact. It's easily remedied.

[Lynn]

steady. definitley steady

[sumrwind]

I love Mercy & Adam
wonderful series, have not been unhappy with any of the books

[Margarita]

I'm apparently part of the minority, but I actually loved River Marked. I enjoyed seeing Mercy and Adam without the pack, as well as meeting Wolf and all the others.

[Adoore]

I'm with I loved just reading about these two.

[[deleted user]]

Aestas Book Blog wrote: "The Kate Daniels spin off series is called The Edge and its reallllllly good - IMO better than the Kate series even.

http://www.goodreads.com/series/46801...

On The Edge
Bayou Moon
Fate's Edge"

The Edge series is not a spin off from the Kate series. It's not even in the same world....

[Adoore]

no sleeping around in this series, it's a relationship that slowly progresses.

[Sarah]

Well, I managed to read all of the Mercy Thompson series, and the Alpha and Omega series, plus all of the short stories associated with the series in less than a month. Addicted!!!!!

[Sarah]

Read Mercy first. They reference a lot of things that are going on in A/O that makes a lot more sense if you have read Mercy first.

Aestas Book Blog wrote: "does it make sense to read either Mercy or A+O first or does it not matter?"

[[deleted user]]

Sarah wrote: "Well, I managed to read all of the Mercy Thompson series, and the Alpha and Omega series, plus all of the short stories associated with the series in less than a month. Addicted!!!!!" Cool! So am I :-)

[[deleted user]]

At the beginning there is a type of love triangle, but that only lasts a few books. It's actually not a bad love triangle either. It adds to the story, gives it a little something.

But, I mean, if you read the backs of the books you know who she chooses, so that is a spoiler in of itself. Not a big one, but still. lol.

Adam and Mercy have a great relationship. It's the kind that everybody wants.

(P.S: I started off with Alpha and Omega and loved it. I started Mercy because of how much I did.)

[Hari]

Nah. ..it's like Curran /Kate. ......mac/barron....type relationship. ....but nothing can beat kate/Curran. ...God bless Andrews

[Melissa]

Mithrendiel wrote: "I have to put in a good word for the Fever series as well - it's AMAZING. Honestly the best series I've read all year, and it ranks in my top 5 best series of all time. :)

As for Mercy and Adam - ..."

What are your favorite series? I am in the middle of Kate Daniels and Mercy Thompson. I keep hearing about Fever. Does Fever have love triangles? I am not a fan of love triangles. Would love your suggestions for other series.

[Cheryl]

I loved the Mercy series and the Kate Daniels series. I also love the Cleansweep series by Ilona Andrews as well...it’s not as hardcore as the Kate series, more playful but laugh out loud sometimes with a real fun world. I also really LOVE and highly recommend the Jane Yellowrock series by Faith Hunter....SO fun.

[Melissa]

Cheryl wrote: "I loved the Mercy series and the Kate Daniels series. I also love the Cleansweep series by Ilona Andrews as well...it’s not as hardcore as the Kate series, more playful but laugh out loud sometimes..."

I have heard a lot about Jane Yellowrock. I have Cleansweep on my list. Right now I am trying to figure out if Mercy Thompson gets to stop aging because she is mated to a werewolf. I would hope so.