Fire Touched

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Call Number: Adult Book / Fiction / Fantasy / Briggs, Patricia
On Shelf At: Westgate Branch

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"Mercy Thompson has been hailed as "a heroine who continues to grow and yet always remains true to herself."* Now she's back, and she'll soon discover that when the fae stalk the human world, it's the children who suffer... Tensions between the fae and humans are coming to a head. And when coyote shapeshifter Mercy and her Alpha werewolf mate, Adam, are called upon to stop a rampaging troll , they find themselves with something that could be used to make the fae back down and forestall out-and-out war: a human child stolen long ago by the fae. Defying the most powerful werewolf in the country, the humans, and the fae, Mercy, Adam, and their pack choose to protect the boy no matter what the cost . But who will protect them from a boy who is fire touched ?"-- Provided by publisher.

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Briggs changes it up a little. submitted by eknapp on June 27, 2016, 8:38am Interestingly (or boringly, depending on your perspective) this entry in the Mercy Thompson series is mostly politics. There are a few quick and dirty fae-vs-werewolf skirmishes to keep matters lively, but Briggs has finally abandoned her David/Goliath formula. There's no massive unstoppable killing machine to stop, no unavoidable doom for Mercy to avoid. It's mostly negotiation and maneuvering between the Columbia Basin Pack and the Gray Lords of the fae, trying to avoid a devastating war. It worked for me. YMMV.

That's not the only break from formula in Fire Touched. During world-building, the author constructed a decidedly sexist werewolf hierarchy, and I mentally applauded her for drawing on wolf social structure and resisting the impulse to contrive some social progress. In Fire Touched, she drags her hero's werewolf pack kicking and screaming into the 21st century. And while it's a touch heavy-handed, she makes it work. Kudos, Ms Briggs.

I do wish they'd stop doing sexy covers for this series. It's annoying to have to keep the cover hidden while reading on the bus.

Thumbs up submitted by hollieesper121573 on August 26, 2016, 9:12pm GREAT!!!