Review of Frost Burned by Patricia Briggs

 

 

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!