Night Broken

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

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" #1 New York Times bestselling author Patricia Briggs's Mercy Thompson series has been hailed as "one of the best" (Fiction Vixen). Now, Mercy must deal with an unwanted guest-one that brings a threat unlike anything she's ever known. An unexpected phone call heralds a new challenge for Mercy. Her mate Adam's ex-wife is in trouble, on the run from a stalker. Adam isn't the kind of man to turn away a person in need-and Mercy knows it. But with Christy holed up in Adam's house, Mercy can't shake the feeling that something about the situation isn't right. Soon, her suspicions are confirmed when she learns that Christy has the farthest thing from good intentions. She wants Adam back and she's willing to do whatever it takes to make it happen, including turning Adam's pack against Mercy. Mercy isn't about to step down without a fight, but there's a more dangerous threat circling. Christy's stalker is more than a bad man-in fact, he may not be human at all. As the bodies start piling up, Mercy must put her personal troubles aside to face a creature with the power to tear her whole world apart. "-- Provided by publisher.

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A guilty pleasure series. submitted by eknapp on June 10, 2014, 12:55pm Briggs follows her tried-and-true-ad-nauseum formula: unstoppable terrifying supermonster comes to town and starts killing people, and Mercy and the pack heroically, nobly and suicidally attempt to kill the unkillable before it strikes again.

What's annoying is that the book discusses why the good wolves of the tri-city pack can't take on the local vampire seethe for unfortunate but practical reasons; then twenty pages later they go to certain doom against a volcano god that they know for a fact can't be killed or stopped simply because "he's killing innocents". Practicality be damned, it's the "right thing to do". Holy contrived, Batman!

However. Briggs puts her canned plot in a funny wrapper in which her husband's ex comes to the pack for protection from a stalker and subtly, skillfully tries to turn the group against Mercy. She's easy to read (I finished in four days what usually takes about two weeks) without feeling too YA.

I find myself enjoying this series over and over in spite of the predictability, the slightly-too-much romanciness, and the convenient-to-the-plotline coincidences.

It Really Is a Guilty Pleasure! submitted by sdunav on June 16, 2014, 1:39pm This is a continuation of Mercy Thompson's story" urban fantasy with werewolves and fae and new monsters in the Kennewick-Pasco-Richland area of WA. It's pretty high quality urban fantasy (as are most of Briggs' books), but you're not going to appreciate all the characters unless you've read the backstory (which amounts to seven books at this point).

Thumbs up submitted by hollieesper121573 on August 26, 2016, 9:11pm Love these books