My Review of Frost Burned, a Mercy Thompson novel by
Patricia Briggs.
Favorite Quote:
I was going to fight vampires, and my name wasn’t Buffy—I was so
screwed.
In the newest book in Patricia Briggs wildly popular
Urban fantasy series, Mercy Thompson , VW mechanic, shape shifting walker, and
wife of the city’s alpha werewolf is out at midnight on Black Friday with her
stepdaughter when she’s involved in a car accident. Soon after she finds that not only can’t she
get a hold of anyone from the pack on her cell phone, but her mate bond with
her husband is being blocked as well.
She tries to get her stepdaughter to safety and then
to go find her mate and their pack, but finds instead rogue government agents
and hired mercenaries have taken her husband and the pack by force, knocking
them out with a secret drug that only the werewolves know about.
Mercy must be smart, deadly and ruthless as she
tries to keep her stepdaughter and others out of these killers’ hands. But that is only the tip of the ice-burg, and
she finds herself in the middle of the lethal politics of a vampire territorial
battle, and in the cross hairs of fae assassins.
All in all, the usual for one of my favorite
heroines, and Ms. Briggs doesn’t disappoint.
Her characters are ever evolving, entertaining and can change
allegiances in the blink of an eye. Her
plot is sharp and quick, and the world she has written pulls you in and doesn’t
let you go.
I lost a lot of sleep reading this book into the wee
hours of the night.
Fantastic!
