Re-read: 08.11.2018 The fifth book in the series starts several months after book four (seven years
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Re-read: 08.11.2018 The fifth book in the series starts several months after book four (seven years from book one). It still centers around now turned vampire Catherine ‘Cat’ ‘Cathy’ ‘Kitten’ ‘Commander’ ‘The Red Reaper’ Kathleen Crawfield (27? 28?) and her vampire husband Crispin Phillip Arthur Russell III (Crispin was his human name) ‘Bones’ (247? 249?). Cat's been a vampire for less than a year, but that doesn't stop her from being special still; her heart sometimes beats and she craves vampire blood instead of human. Oh and there's the fact that when she drinks from a powerful vampire, she get their abilities for some time. This has the supernatural world in fear and a certain ghoul looking for war. Overall, it seems like the more I continue with the re-read of the series, the less I like each book. It started out great - book one to three was really enjoyable - but after that, it's been a downhill. Sure, they aren't bad, not at all, but it's far from what I remember them being. I found myself skimming :O Not sure if it's wise of me to continue with the re-read...
“I love your hands,” he sighed. “You think I look like an angel? Well, Kitten, your hands are my heaven and your eyes are my home.”
[image] Other Character: → Justina Crawfield (45), Cat's mother. Gregor turns her to a vampire against her will in book four. → Baron Charles ‘Spade’ DeMortimer, a Master vampire and Bones' best friend; known each other for over 220 years. → Liam Flannery aka Ian (over 200), a Master vampire, Bones and Spade's shire. → Rodney, a ghoul and friend of Bones. Got killed when he tried saving Justina at the end of forth book. → Donald ‘Don’ Bartholomew Williams (around 50), the head of a unit in the FBI called the Paranormal Behavior Division; a combination of CIA, FBI, and the armed forces. He was Cat's boss and he's Cat's uncle; her mother's rapist's brother (Max). (view spoiler)[Don dies of lung cancer later in the book. (hide spoiler)] → Tate Bradley (late twenties), had been a sergeant in the Special Forces, a very select unit of them, is now on Cat's team. He was Cat's second-in-command. Got turned into a vampire by choice by Bones. Tate's now the leader of the team. → Dave and Juan, was Cat's other two captains. Dave gets killed by a vampire and at end of the book two, Rodney and Bones makes him a ghoul. Juan got turned into a vampire by choice by Bones. → Denise, Cat's friend for over three years. Cat saved her from a vampire. Randy, her husband. Randy get's torn apart by zombies at the end of the three; dead. Denise is now a shapeshifter and married to Spade? → Cooper, a member of Cat's team, he’s smart, fast, and ruthless. His years as an undercover narcotics officer probably helped there. He’s performed well in training operations, so they are now trying to see how he does in the field. He doesn’t like Cat; thinks she’ll turn on them one day because she a half-breed. He was Cat's third captain. → Mencheres (over 4000, though from his appearance, you wouldn’t think he was a day over 25), the vampire who made Ian, so that makes him Bones' fang granddaddy/grandsire. He’s a very powerful vampire who Ian wouldn’t want to cross. Mencheres sees things; visions, glimpses of the future, that sort. It’s one of his powers. He can also read humans’ minds, and it seems, half-breeds, too (but not vampires’ minds). → Maximillian ‘Max’, Cat's father and used to be member of Ian’s line and under his protection, any attack against Max would be the same as an attack against Ian in the vampire world. He's now being held in a prison of sorts, tortured until Bones says otherwise. → Kira, Mencheres girlfriend and newly turned vampire. → Annette (looks around 45), the first vampire Bones had ever made. She had help him when Bones was human, and Bones wanted to return the favor; to become a vampire, she accepted. → Doc, Zero, and Tick Tock, vampires of Bones. Bones has well over two hundred vampires (direct members of his line), and that didn’t count the ghouls he’d had a hand in siring, which was roughly another hundred. Zero and Tick Tock gets killed in the zombie attack at the end of book three. → Vlad Tepesh (several 100 years old.), ummm, the original one; Dracula, a Master. He, too, can read human minds and is pyrokinetic. → Gregor, a vampire Dreamsnatcher (he can steal people away in their dreams) and has visions of the future like Mencheres (Gregor intended to alter the future based on one of these visions. When Mencheres found out about it, he imprisoned him as punishment; he managed to escape his prison a month ago). Gregor's older than Bones, more powerful and wants Cat; claiming she's his wife. Cat burns him to death in book four. → Marie ‘Majestic’ Laveau, New Orleans’s queen, one of the most powerful ghouls in the nation. Does voodoo. Jacques, a ghoul and the queen's lover. → Fabian du Brac (born 1877, died 1922), a ghost Cat's practically adopted. → Hopscotch, Tiny and Band-Aid, vampires of Bones. → Malcolme ‘Apollyon’ Untare, a centuries-old ghoul. (view spoiler)[Cat kills him at the end of the book. (hide spoiler)] → Scratch and Ed, young, Masterless vampires. Bones makes them his. → Timmie ‘Tim’, human and he was Cat's neighbor when she moved closer to college in book one. He's now a reporter.
“Kitten, you've been a vampire for less than a year. During that time, you've blown the head off a Master vampire through pyrokinesis and frozen dozens of vampires into a stupor through telekinesis. Your abilities, plus your occasional heartbeat, are bound to frighten some people.”
Quick basic facts: Genre: - (Adult) Paranormal Romance/Urban Fantasy?. Series: - Series, Book Five. Love triangle? - (view spoiler)[No. (hide spoiler)] Cheating? - (view spoiler)[No. (hide spoiler)] HEA? - (view spoiler)[No. (hide spoiler)] Favorite character? - Bones. Would I read more by this author/or of series? - Yes. Would I recommend this book/series? - Yes. Will I read this again in the future? - Probably Not. New Rating - 3 stars. [image] First read review: Rate: 4 stars....more
Second re-read: 07.11.2018 The forth book in the series starts months after book three (six years from boo
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Second re-read: 07.11.2018 The forth book in the series starts months after book three (six years from book one). Half-vampire Catherine ‘Cat’ ‘Cathy’ ‘Kitten’ ‘Commander’ ‘The Red Reaper’ Kathleen Crawfield (27) and her vampire bounty hunter/hit man Crispin Phillip Arthur Russell III (Crispin was his human name) ‘Bones’ (247), are now in another mess; someone is claiming that Cat's their wife, not Bones' and this is causing quite a wall between the two of them. Cat is still holding back, and Bones is at his last straw. Can their love make it? Overall, this book is actually quite meh. Don't get me wrong, it's still good and all that, but at the same time it's the least enjoyable in the series. I don't like how Cat holds back, Bones deserves so much more. On to the next one!
“Bloody hell, Kitten. Never thought to be flogged by my own furniture. Do you know I saw bloomin' stars when that cracked over my nog?”
Other Character: → Justina Crawfield (45), Cat's mother. (view spoiler)[Gregor turns her to a vampire against her will. (hide spoiler)] → Baron Charles ‘Spade’ DeMortimer, Bones' best friend; known each other for over 220 years. → Liam Flannery aka Ian (over 200), Bones and Spade's shire. → Rodney, a ghoul and friend of Bones. (view spoiler)[Gets killed when he tried saving Justina at the end of the book. (hide spoiler)] → Donald ‘Don’ Williams (around 50), the head of a unit in the FBI called the Paranormal Behavior Division; a combination of CIA, FBI, and the armed forces. He was Cat's boss and he's Cat's uncle; her mother's rapist's brother (Max). → Tate Bradley (late twenties), had been a sergeant in the Special Forces, a very select unit of them, is now on Cat's team. He was Cat's second-in-command. Gets turned into a vampire by choice by Bones. → Dave and Juan, was Cat's other two captains. Dave gets killed by a vampire and at end of the book two, Rodney and Bones makes him a ghoul. Juan gets turned into a vampire by choice by Bones. → Denise, Cat's friend for over three years. Cat saved her from a vampire. Randy, her husband. Randy get's torn apart by zombies at the end of the three; dead. → Cooper, a member of Cat's team, he’s smart, fast, and ruthless. His years as an undercover narcotics officer probably helped there. He’s performed well in training operations, so they are now trying to see how he does in the field. He doesn’t like Cat; thinks she’ll turn on them one day because she a half-breed. He was Cat's third captain. → Mencheres (over 4000, though from his appearance, you wouldn’t think he was a day over 25), the vampire who made Ian, so that makes him Bones' fang granddaddy/grandsire. He’s a very powerful vampire who Ian wouldn’t want to cross. Since Cat's father, Maximillian ‘Max’, is a member of Ian’s line and still under his protection, any attack against Max would be the same as an attack against Ian in the vampire world. Mencheres sees things; visions, glimpses of the future, that sort. It’s one of his powers. He can also read humans’ minds, and it seems, half-breeds, too (but not vampires’ minds). → Annette (looks around 45), the first vampire Bones had ever made. She had help him when Bones was human, and Bones wanted to return the favor; to become a vampire, she accepted. → Doc, Zero, and Tick Tock, vampires of Bones. Bones has well over two hundred vampires (direct members of his line), and that didn’t count the ghouls he’d had a hand in siring, which was roughly another hundred. Zero and Tick Tock gets killed in the zombie attack at the end of book three. → Patra (over 2000), a master and Max’s mysterious benefactor. She chose her vampire name in honor of her mother, one of Egypt’s most famous rulers, and merely shortened it when she changed over. Patra is the daughter of Cleopatra, and Mencheres refuses to kill her because she’s his wife. Bones kills her at the end of book three. → Vlad Tepesh (several 100 years old.), ummm, the original one; Dracula, a Master. He, too, can read human minds and is pyrokinetic. → Gregor, a vampire Dreamsnatcher (he can steal people away in their dreams) and has visions of the future like Mencheres (Gregor intended to alter the future based on one of these visions. When Mencheres found out about it, he imprisoned him as punishment; he managed to escape his prison a month ago). Gregor's older than Bones, more powerful and wants Cat; claiming she's his wife. (view spoiler)[Cat burns him to death. (hide spoiler)] → Sonya and her husband (bonded vampire couple), Noel, Bones and Cat's hosts for their stay in Paris. → Marie ‘Majestic’ Laveau, New Orleans’s queen, one of the most powerful ghouls in the nation. Does voodoo. Jacques, a ghoul and the queen's lover. → Liza (was 17 when changed by Bones), a ghoul. → Fabian du Brac (born 1877, died 1922), a ghost. → Hopscotch and Band-Aid, vampires of Bones. → Lieutenant Geri Hicks, Cat's replacement with Don’s team. → Malcolme ‘Apollyon’ Untare, a ghoul.
“Then you remember the dream,” Mencheres stated. “That bodes ill.” The fear of that made my reply snappy. “Hey, Walks Like An Egyptian, how about for once you drop the formal stuff and talk like you live in the twenty-first century?” “The shit’s gonna splatter, start buggin’, yo,” Mencheres responded instantly. I stared at him, then burst out laughing, which was highly inappropriate considering the very grave warning he’d just conveyed. “I find nothing funny in this,” Bones muttered. “Oh, neither do I, but that’s still hilarious,” I managed.
Quick basic facts: Genre: - (Adult) Paranormal Romance/Urban Fantasy?. Series: - Series, Book Four. Love triangle? - (view spoiler)[No. (hide spoiler)] Cheating? - (view spoiler)[No. (hide spoiler)] HEA? - (view spoiler)[No. (hide spoiler)] Favorite character? - Bones. Would I read more by this author/or of series? - Yes. Would I recommend this book/series? - Yes. Will I read this again in the future? - Probably. New Rating - 3.5 stars. [image] Re-read: 29.05.15 I enjoyed this one. Need more Bones! Rate: 4 stars....more
Re-read: 11.07.2019 This book is actually one of the more... interesting ones in the series. However, it doesn
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Re-read: 11.07.2019 This book is actually one of the more... interesting ones in the series. However, it doesn't live up to its potential. I like seeing Mercy more.. possessive over Adam, and I always love seeing Adam showing love for Mercy. Even though there isn't a competition between Mercy and Adam's ex-wife, it's still interesting to see the influence the ex has on the pack and Mercy's reaction. I wish the pack was more... family like. Samuel is all but disappeared after he got a mate. He's no longer a part of the story of Mercy. I really, really like Stefan and I'm annoyed he's too barely in the books anymore. In fact, I find that Stefan is one of my favorite characters, maybe beating out Adam...
Quick basic facts: Genre: - (Adult) Urban Fantasy (M/F) Series: - Series, Book Eight. Love triangle? - (view spoiler)[No. (hide spoiler)] Cheating? - (view spoiler)[No. (hide spoiler)] HEA? - (view spoiler)[Yes, for now? (hide spoiler)] Favorite character? - Adam Hauptman or/and Stefan Uccello. Would I read more by this author/or of series? - Sure. Would I recommend this book/series? - Sure. Will I read this again in the future? - Probably not. New Rating - 3 stars (I gave it 4 stars first time reading it)....more
Re-read: 08.07.2019 The sixth book in the series focuses more on the Volkswagen mechanic and a walker (a magica
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Re-read: 08.07.2019 The sixth book in the series focuses more on the Volkswagen mechanic and a walker (a magical being with the power to shift into a coyote at will), Mercedes ‘Mercy’ Athena Thompson Hauptman (31?), and her mate and husband (becomes her husband early in this book) Adam Alexander Hauptman (over 60?), the Alpha of the local werewolf pack (the Columbia Basin Pack). They are on their honeymoon and of course, trouble can't seem to stay away from Mercy as she's like a damn magnate for trouble.
Overall, as it's centered around Mercy and Adam, I'm still a bit angry over the fact that even though Adam is right there, he still isn't/can't fight along side Mercy and Mercy kills the bad guy somewhat alone. Again. Also, I found myself skimming a lot - I was re-reading this one on a plane trip - and it felt sooo... disconnecting. I get Mercy's independence, I do, but for me, she's taking it a step too far and I feel like Adam deserves more to be honest. Is this rude? Weird?
I wish Mercy was more like Kate Daniels. I find that that series has a perfect balance between independence and family/love. Not sure if I should continue my re-read, but on the other hand, I kinda need it as I don't remember certain details and I need those for the once I haven't read yet (#10 & #11). Ugh. I miss reading M/M. I need to finish this though, or I never will.
Quick basic facts: Genre: - (Adult) Urban Fantasy (M/F) Series: - Series, Book Six. Love triangle? - (view spoiler)[No. (hide spoiler)] Cheating? - (view spoiler)[No. (hide spoiler)] HEA? - (view spoiler)[Yes, for now? (hide spoiler)] Favorite character? - Adam Hauptman. Would I read more by this author/or of series? - Sure. Would I recommend this book/series? - Sure. Will I read this again in the future? - Probably not. New Rating - 2.5 stars (I gave it 4 stars first time reading it)....more
Re-read: 06.07.2019 The fifth book in the series, the Volkswagen mechanic and a walker (a magical being wit
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Re-read: 06.07.2019 The fifth book in the series, the Volkswagen mechanic and a walker (a magical being with the power to shift into a coyote at will), Mercedes ‘Mercy’ Athena Thompson (how old is she?), gets a call from her former boss' son who is worried about a friend, and of course Mercy can't stay out of anything. So she goes an investigates and finds herself in bigger trouble than she realized. And than there's the pack, who many does not accept a coyote as the Alpha's mate. On top of that, there's problems with roommate, who seems to have given up.
Overall the book is actually pretty ‘eh’. There's too little Adam in this book. He only shows up when the danger(s) are over and Mercy's done it all, and it's getting a bit annoying. He also gets hurt a lot and while I like the concept of the werewolves instincts of challenging when the Alpha is hurt, I don't like that it takes away the feeling of ‘pack’/family. I also struggle with (view spoiler)[Samuel being in love with Ariana, has been for a very long time and we never knew about it (hide spoiler)] so it all felt so sudden, and not very well developed. Then of course there's still my struggle with connecting with Mercy. I should also say - which I'm sorry for - but I struggled to feel/see Mercy and her mate's bond/love. And that ruined the whole book for me.
Other Characters: The list is long so I put it in a spoilers tag. (view spoiler)[→ Adam Hauptman, the Alpha of the local werewolf pack (the Columbia Basin Pack), and his human daughter, Jessica ‘Jesse’ Tamarind Hauptman (15). → Samuel ‘Sam’ Llewellyn Cornick, his father, Bran ‘The Marrok’ Cornick, and his brother, Charles Cornick, a financial genius. In the US, all the packs follow the Marrok, a title taken from the name of one of King Arthur’s knights who was a werewolf. The Marrok and his pack have oversight of all the werewolves in North America. Bran's mate, Leah. Samuel is a medical doctor. → Siebold ‘Zee’ Adelbertsmiter of the Black Forest, Mercy's former boss, had retired when he sold her the place, but he’d come out once in a while to “keep his hand in.” He's also a Metallzauber/gremlin (fae). → Medea, Mercy's cat. → Stefan ‘the Soldier’ Uccello, a vampire and a somewhat friend of Mercy. → Elizaveta Arkadyevna Vyshnevetskaya, the cleanup crew leader. She was the most powerful witch in the Pacific Northwest. Her grandson, Robert. → Tony Montenegro (33 or so), a cop and Mercy's friend. → Darryl Zao, Adam’s second. He was a Ph.D. engineer working at the Pacific Northwest Laboratories in some sort of government hush-hush project. Auriele, a chemistry teacher at Richland High and Darryl’s mate. → Warren, one of the good guys, a hero, Mercy's favorite in Adam's pack. Warren is also Adam's best friend and most trusted in the pack, and his third. He was also a lone wolf; simply because he's gay and most of the werewolves in power in the US had been born in a time when homosexuality was anathema, even punishable by death in some places. → Kyle Brooks, Warren’s boyfriend and a divorce lawyer. Warren works for him; Kyle’d shaken a few trees, bribed a few officials (probably) and maybe blackmailed more, and gotten Warren a private detective’s license. Warren guarded clients and did quiet investigations for Kyle’s law firm. → Ben, a werewolf in Adam's pack. British. → Margi, Mercy's mother, Curt, Mercy's stepfather. → Tad, Mercy's old assistant and Zee's son. → Signora Marsilia, Mistress of the Mid-Columbia Seethe (vampire). → Mary Jo, a firefighter with the Kennewick FD, and pack member to Adam. → Sylvia Sandoval and her son, Gabriel Sandoval (17), Mercy's office manager. His sisters, Tia, Rosalinda, Sofia and Maia. → Wulfe ‘the Wizard’, a vampire who looks like a teenager. → Honey, and her mate-and-husband, a plumbing contractor, Peter Jorgenson, werewolves in Adam's pack. → Uncle Mike, owner of a bar/tavern meant for the fae. Is fae himself. → Naomi and Rachel, bloodgivers/sheeps to Stefan. → Estelle ‘the Teacher’ and Bernard, old vampires belonging to the Mistress. Two of the few vampires strong enough to live on their own. The others being Stefan, Andre and Wulfe. Of the five most powerful vampires, only Stefan and Andre are truly Marsili's. → Dr. Stacy Altman, a folklore specialist from the University of Oregon, the police's expert consultant. Is the great Carrion Crow (blind), one of the Gray Lords (the leaders of the fae)? → Tim Milanovich, part of an anti-fae group. Killed by Mercy in book three after he raped her. Mercy, with the help of a Oak fae, kills him at the end of book four. → Kelly Heart, the bounty hunter from TV. → Phineas ‘Phin’ Brewster, a Half-blood Fae bookkeeper who owns Brewster's Library; he has enough Fae in him to do a little magic. → Alicia Brewster, Phin’s grandmother?, aka Ariana ‘Ari’, a fae. (view spoiler)[Becomes Samuel's mate. They've known each other for a long time. (hide spoiler)](hide spoiler)]
“No apologies from you,” he told me, his voice soft enough to melt my knees and most of my other parts. “First of all, as I already pointed out—you would make the same choices again, right? So an apology doesn’t work. Secondly, you, being who you are, could have made no other choice. Since I love you, as you are, where you are—it hardly makes sense for me to kick about it when you act like yourself. Right?” “People don’t always see it that way,” I said, stepping into him until our hip bones bumped. He laughed, a quiet sound that made me happy down to my toes. “Yeah, well, I don’t promise I’ll always be logical about it.” He gave a rueful glance to my broken counter and the cash register on its side. “Especially at first.” His smile dropped away. “I thought you were trying to leave me.” “I might be dumb,” I told him, putting my nose against his silk tie, “but I’m not that dumb. I’ve gotcha now, and you aren’t getting away.”
Quick basic facts: Genre: - (Adult) Urban Fantasy (M/F) Series: - Series, Book Five. Love triangle? - (view spoiler)[No. (hide spoiler)] Cheating? - (view spoiler)[No. (hide spoiler)] HEA? - (view spoiler)[Yes, for now? (hide spoiler)] Favorite character? - Adam Hauptman. Would I read more by this author/or of series? - Sure. Would I recommend this book/series? - Sure. Will I read this again in the future? - It's me... I do love re-reading. New Rating - 2.5/3 stars (I gave it 4 stars first time reading it)....more
Re-read: 05.07.2019 The fourth book in the series the Volkswagen mechanic and a walker (a magical bei
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Re-read: 05.07.2019 The fourth book in the series the Volkswagen mechanic and a walker (a magical being with the power to shift into a coyote at will), Mercedes ‘Mercy’ Athena Thompson (how old is she?), finds herself torn between wanting Adam and what he has to offer, and not putting him in danger by being with her. On top of that, she still struggles with panic attacks from her rape in previous book and her killing vampire Andre has finally reached the Mistress' ears, who wants her dead. But that's not all, an old ‘friend’ of her needs her help.
Overall, the concept is good, we get a little closer to Mercy than the previous books, but she still keeps us reads a bit a bay. What I want is more romance. Though I don't mean for the plot to center the romance, what I mean is that I want Mercy and Adam working together, as a couple, and not just Mercy on her own with Adam coming in later after all is said and done. I just need more. I need a relationship such as Kate Daniels and Curran has. To be frankly honest, I feel like the independence Mercy has kinda overshadows Adam's potential. Is that weird? That being said, this re-read made the rating go down; while it used to have 4 stars, it now has 3. But I do like to mention that I really adore Mercy and Stefan. Together. This is simply because Adam's barely there because Mercy keeps him at arms length.
Other Characters: The list is long so I put it in a spoilers tag. (view spoiler)[→ Adam Hauptman, the Alpha of the local werewolf pack (the Columbia Basin Pack), and his human daughter, Jessica ‘Jesse’ Tamarind Hauptman (15). → Samuel ‘Sam’ Llewellyn Cornick, his father, Bran ‘The Marrok’ Cornick, and his brother, Charles Cornick, a financial genius. In the US, all the packs follow the Marrok, a title taken from the name of one of King Arthur’s knights who was a werewolf. The Marrok and his pack have oversight of all the werewolves in North America. Bran's mate, Leah. Samuel is a medical doctor. → Siebold ‘Zee’ Adelbertsmiter of the Black Forest, Mercy's former boss, had retired when he sold her the place, but he’d come out once in a while to “keep his hand in.” He's also a Metallzauber/gremlin (fae). → Medea, Mercy's cat. → Stefan ‘the Soldier’ Uccello, a vampire and a somewhat friend of Mercy. → Elizaveta Arkadyevna Vyshnevetskaya, the cleanup crew leader. She was the most powerful witch in the Pacific Northwest. Her grandson, Robert. → Tony Montenegro (33 or so), a cop and Mercy's friend. → Darryl Zao, Adam’s second. He was a Ph.D. engineer working at the Pacific Northwest Laboratories in some sort of government hush-hush project. Auriele, a chemistry teacher at Richland High and Darryl’s mate. → Warren, one of the good guys, a hero, Mercy's favorite in Adam's pack. Warren is also Adam's best friend and most trusted in the pack, and his third. He was also a lone wolf; simply because he's gay and most of the werewolves in power in the US had been born in a time when homosexuality was anathema, even punishable by death in some places. → Kyle Brooks, Warren’s current lover and a divorce lawyer. → Ben, a werewolf in Adam's pack. British. → Margi, Mercy's mother, Curt, Mercy's stepfather. → Tad, Mercy's old assistant and Zee's son. → Signora Marsilia, Mistress of the Mid-Columbia Seethe (vampire). → Mary Jo, a firefighter with the Kennewick FD, and pack member to Adam. → Sylvia Sandoval and her son, Gabriel Sandoval (16). Zee fixed her car and in exchange, Gabriel will work for Mercy. → Cory Littleton, a vampire sorcerers who let's himself be possessed by a demon. → Andre ‘the Courtier’, a vampire and left hand to the Mistress (Stefan is her right hand). Mercy kills him at the end of book three. → Daniel, a new vampire made by Andre, though he was Stefan's when he was human. Killed by Ben but it was Littleton fault as he controlled Ben in book three. → Wulfe ‘the Wizard’, a vampire who looks like a teenager. → Tom Black/John Beckworth, a reporter/an investigative journalist. His daughter, Kara, survived an attack from a werewolf at the age of 10, now 3 years later her father locks her up every full moon. → Honey, and her mate-and-husband, a plumbing contractor, Peter Jorgenson, werewolves in Adam's pack. → Uncle Mike, owner of a bar/tavern meant for the fae. Is fae himself. → Naomi and Rachel, bloodgivers/sheeps to Stefan. → Estelle ‘the Teacher’ and Bernard, old vampires belonging to the Mistress. Two of the few vampires strong enough to live on their own. The others being Stefan, Andre and Wulfe. Of the five most powerful vampires, only Stefan and Andre are truly Marsili's. → Mrs. Marjorie Hanna, a ghost. → Dr. Stacy Altman, a folklore specialist from the University of Oregon, the police's expert consultant. Is the great Carrion Crow (blind), one of the Gray Lords (the leaders of the fae)? → Jean Ryan, the best criminal defense attorney this side of Seattle and Zee's lawyer. She's also a member of the John Lauren Society, an anti-fae group. → Tim Milanovich, part of an anti-fae group. Killed by Mercy in book three after he raped her. → Austin Summers, leader of an anti-fae group. Tim killed him in book three. → Amber Wharton, had been Mercy's college roommate Charla ‘Char’’s best friend. She and Mercy had been acquaintances rather than friends. Amber's husband, Corban Wharton, a moderately successful corporate lawyer about ten years her senior. Chad (8 or 10, this changes....), their son who's deaf - though Corban is not his biological father, a man named Harrison is. → James ‘Jim’ ‘The Monster’ Blackwood, the only vampire in Spokane; who kept his territory free of vampires or anything else that might challenge him. He's also Amber’s husband’s best client. (view spoiler)[Mercy, with the help of a Oak fae, kills him at the end of the book. (hide spoiler)](hide spoiler)]
Quick basic facts: Genre: - (Adult) Urban Fantasy (M/F) Series: - Series, Book Four. Love triangle? - (view spoiler)[No. (hide spoiler)] Cheating? - (view spoiler)[No. (hide spoiler)] HEA? - (view spoiler)[Yes, for now? (hide spoiler)] Favorite character? - Adam Hauptman. Would I read more by this author/or of series? - Sure. Would I recommend this book/series? - Sure. Will I read this again in the future? - It's me... I do love re-reading. New Rating - 3 stars (I gave it 4 stars first time reading it)....more
Second re-read: 03.07.2019 The second book in the series centers around Volkswagen mechanic and a walk
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Second re-read: 03.07.2019 The second book in the series centers around Volkswagen mechanic and a walker (a magical being with the power to shift into a coyote at will), Mercedes ‘Mercy’ Athena Thompson. Mercy has a foot in all sorts of species; friends with a cop, sorta/sorta not friends with a vampire, her former boss a fae, her roommate a werewolf and let's not forget her neighbor is an Alpha werewolf. When said vampire checks in a favor, Mercy ends up in more trouble than she planned. Then there's also the two men in her life who wants her... What to do? Nothing, as Mercy tends to avoid emotions.
Overall, it's a nice read. It is, but it's just too long, too much information and takes too long to get to the point. There's also the huge problem that I feel disconnected with all the characters. The thing is, I can't connect with Mercy simply because she hides things, even from herself, because she doesn't want to admit things. So we're all kinda left on the outside looking in, with only a few hints that there's more, but Mercy shuts it down and says she's think about it later. This is a huge problem for me as I need to connect with the character in order to enjoy myself. Also, I do like how strong willed Mercy is, but is it so wrong to submit sometimes?
A question though; which of the supernatural creatures are at the top of the food chain? Is it the vampires? Because the werewolves seems a bit scared of them...? No one wants war because the werewolves outnumber the vampires. And the fae doesn't seem all that hard to kill.... so who is the big bad?
Other Characters: The list is long so I put it in a spoilers tag. (view spoiler)[→ Adam Hauptman, the Alpha of the local werewolf pack (the Columbia Basin Pack), and his human daughter, Jessica ‘Jesse’ Tamarind Hauptman (15). → Samuel ‘Sam’ Llewellyn Cornick, his father, Bran ‘The Marrok’ Cornick, and his brother, Charles Cornick, a financial genius. In the US, all the packs follow the Marrok, a title taken from the name of one of King Arthur’s knights who was a werewolf. The Marrok and his pack have oversight of all the werewolves in North America. Bran's mate, Leah. Samuel is a medical doctor. → Siebold ‘Zee’ Adelbertsmiter of the Black Forest, Mercy's former boss, had retired when he sold her the place, but he’d come out once in a while to “keep his hand in.” He's also a Metallzauber/gremlin (fae). → Medea, Mercy's cat. → Stefan ‘the Soldier’ Uccello, a vampire and a somewhat friend of Mercy. → Elizaveta Arkadyevna Vyshnevetskaya, the cleanup crew leader. She was the most powerful witch in the Pacific Northwest. Her grandson, Robert. → Tony Montenegro (33 or so), a cop and Mercy's friend. → Darryl Zao, Adam’s second. He was a Ph.D. engineer working at the Pacific Northwest Laboratories in some sort of government hush-hush project. Auriele, a chemistry teacher at Richland High and Darryl’s mate. → Warren, one of the good guys, a hero, Mercy's favorite in Adam's pack. Warren is also Adam's best friend and most trusted in the pack, and his third. He was also a lone wolf; simply because he's gay and most of the werewolves in power in the US had been born in a time when homosexuality was anathema, even punishable by death in some places. → Kyle Brooks, Warren’s current lover and a divorce lawyer. → Ben, a werewolf in Adam's pack. British. → Margi, Mercy's mother, Curt, Mercy's stepfather. → Tad, Mercy's old assistant and Zee's son. → Signora Marsilia, Mistress of the Mid-Columbia Seethe (vampire). → Mary Jo, a firefighter with the Kennewick FD, and pack member to Adam. → Sylvia Sandoval and her son, Gabriel Sandoval (16). Zee fixed her car and in exchange, Gabriel will work for Mercy. → Cory Littleton, a vampire sorcerers who let's himself be possessed by a demon. → Andre ‘the Courtier’, a vampire and left hand to the Mistress (Stefan is her right hand). (view spoiler)[Mercy kills him at the end of the book. (hide spoiler)] → Daniel, a new vampire made by Andre, though he was Stefan's when he was human. (view spoiler)[Killed by Ben but it was Littleton fault as he controlled Ben. (hide spoiler)] → Wulfe ‘the Wizard’, a vampire who looks like a teenager. → Tom Black/John Beckworth, a reporter/an investigative journalist. His daughter, Kara, survived an attack from a werewolf at the age of 10, now 3 years later her father locks her up every full moon. → Honey, and her mate-and-husband, a plumbing contractor, Peter Jorgenson, werewolves in Adam's pack. → Uncle Mike, owner of a bar/tavern meant for the fae. → Naomi and Rachel, bloodgivers/sheeps to Stefan. → Estelle ‘the Teacher’ and Bernard, old vampires belonging to the Mistress. Two of the few vampires strong enough to live on their own. The others being Stefan, Andre and Wulfe. Of the five most powerful vampires, only Stefan and Andre are truly Marsili's. → Mrs. Marjorie Hanna, a ghost. (hide spoiler)]
“Never trust a mechanic who drives new cars. They're either charging too much money for their work, or they can't keep an old car running - maybe both.”
Quick basic facts: Genre: - (Adult) Urban Fantasy (M/F) Series: - Series, Book Two. Love triangle? - (view spoiler)[Yes and no. As Mercy avoids feelings it doesn't feel like a love triangle. (hide spoiler)] Cheating? - (view spoiler)[No. (hide spoiler)] HEA? - (view spoiler)[Yes, for now? (hide spoiler)] Favorite character? - Adam Hauptman. Would I read more by this author/or of series? - Sure. Would I recommend this book/series? - Sure. Will I read this again in the future? - It's me... I do love re-reading. Rating - Still the same. [image] Re-read: 08.04.16 Oh no... I have sad news. I rated the book with one less star after re-reading. Don't get me wrong, it's still good, though not as good as it was the first time reading it, unfortunately :/ New rate: 3 stars. [image] First read review: Oh! I liked it better than the first one. Hope this continues :D Rate: 4 stars....more
Second re-read: 04.07.2019 The third book in the series centers around Volkswagen mechanic and a walker (a
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Second re-read: 04.07.2019 The third book in the series centers around Volkswagen mechanic and a walker (a magical being with the power to shift into a coyote at will), Mercedes ‘Mercy’ Athena Thompson (how old is she?). Maaaaybe this series just doesn't completely work for me because it's urban fantasy? Or maybe it's simply because Mercy and I can't connect? I dunno. All I know is that I sorta struggle not to get bored at time. I find myself skimming before I realize it, I stop, but then I start doing it again.
There's that overload of information that takes up a lot of space and the feeling of being on the outside even in Mercy's head. She's too stubborn and feeling the need to be completely independent, and while I don't fault her for that - I mean condos to her - but it makes connection to the people around her even harder as she refuses to let anyone in, including the readers. Overall, the concept is interesting, no doubt about that, but I do love myself an alpha male who's possessive and overprotective and while I don't like a walk-all-over her kind of female, I do like them to show a bit of... softness and sometimes let the male be alpha male, but Mercy refuses that. It kinda annoys me. Trigger warning: (view spoiler)[Mercy is raped at the end of the book. And though it's not graphically described, it's mentioned and somewhat talked about. (hide spoiler)]
Other Characters: The list is long so I put it in a spoilers tag. (view spoiler)[→ Adam Hauptman, the Alpha of the local werewolf pack (the Columbia Basin Pack), and his human daughter, Jessica ‘Jesse’ Tamarind Hauptman (15). → Samuel ‘Sam’ Llewellyn Cornick, his father, Bran ‘The Marrok’ Cornick, and his brother, Charles Cornick, a financial genius. In the US, all the packs follow the Marrok, a title taken from the name of one of King Arthur’s knights who was a werewolf. The Marrok and his pack have oversight of all the werewolves in North America. Bran's mate, Leah. Samuel is a medical doctor. → Siebold ‘Zee’ Adelbertsmiter of the Black Forest, Mercy's former boss, had retired when he sold her the place, but he’d come out once in a while to “keep his hand in.” He's also a Metallzauber/gremlin (fae). → Medea, Mercy's cat. → Stefan ‘the Soldier’ Uccello, a vampire and a somewhat friend of Mercy. → Elizaveta Arkadyevna Vyshnevetskaya, the cleanup crew leader. She was the most powerful witch in the Pacific Northwest. Her grandson, Robert. → Tony Montenegro (33 or so), a cop and Mercy's friend. → Darryl Zao, Adam’s second. He was a Ph.D. engineer working at the Pacific Northwest Laboratories in some sort of government hush-hush project. Auriele, a chemistry teacher at Richland High and Darryl’s mate. → Warren, one of the good guys, a hero, Mercy's favorite in Adam's pack. Warren is also Adam's best friend and most trusted in the pack, and his third. He was also a lone wolf; simply because he's gay and most of the werewolves in power in the US had been born in a time when homosexuality was anathema, even punishable by death in some places. → Kyle Brooks, Warren’s current lover and a divorce lawyer. → Ben, a werewolf in Adam's pack. British. → Margi, Mercy's mother, Curt, Mercy's stepfather. → Tad, Mercy's old assistant and Zee's son. → Signora Marsilia, Mistress of the Mid-Columbia Seethe (vampire). → Mary Jo, a firefighter with the Kennewick FD, and pack member to Adam. → Sylvia Sandoval and her son, Gabriel Sandoval (16). Zee fixed her car and in exchange, Gabriel will work for Mercy. → Cory Littleton, a vampire sorcerers who let's himself be possessed by a demon. → Andre ‘the Courtier’, a vampire and left hand to the Mistress (Stefan is her right hand). (view spoiler)[Mercy kills him at the end of the book. (hide spoiler)] → Daniel, a new vampire made by Andre, though he was Stefan's when he was human. (view spoiler)[Killed by Ben but it was Littleton fault as he controlled Ben. (hide spoiler)] → Wulfe ‘the Wizard’, a vampire who looks like a teenager. → Tom Black/John Beckworth, a reporter/an investigative journalist. His daughter, Kara, survived an attack from a werewolf at the age of 10, now 3 years later her father locks her up every full moon. → Honey, and her mate-and-husband, a plumbing contractor, Peter Jorgenson, werewolves in Adam's pack. → Uncle Mike, owner of a bar/tavern meant for the fae. Is fae himself. → Naomi and Rachel, bloodgivers/sheeps to Stefan. → Estelle ‘the Teacher’ and Bernard, old vampires belonging to the Mistress. Two of the few vampires strong enough to live on their own. The others being Stefan, Andre and Wulfe. Of the five most powerful vampires, only Stefan and Andre are truly Marsili's. → Mrs. Marjorie Hanna, a ghost. → Dr. Stacy Altman, a folklore specialist from the University of Oregon, the police's expert consultant. (view spoiler)[Is the great Carrion Crow (blind), one of the Gray Lords (the leaders of the fae)? (hide spoiler)] → Jean Ryan, the best criminal defense attorney this side of Seattle and Zee's lawyer. She's also a member of the John Lauren Society, an anti-fae group. → Tim Milanovich, part of an anti-fae group. (view spoiler)[Killed by Mercy. (hide spoiler)] → Austin Summers, leader of an anti-fae group. (view spoiler)[Tim killed him. (hide spoiler)](hide spoiler)]
Quick basic facts: Genre: - (Adult) Urban Fantasy (M/F) Series: - Series, Book Three. Love triangle? - (view spoiler)[Yes and no. As Mercy avoids feelings it doesn't feel like a love triangle. (hide spoiler)] Cheating? - (view spoiler)[No. (hide spoiler)] HEA? - (view spoiler)[Yes, for now? (hide spoiler)] Favorite character? - Adam Hauptman. Would I read more by this author/or of series? - Sure. Would I recommend this book/series? - Sure. Will I read this again in the future? - It's me... I do love re-reading. Rating - Still the same. [image] Re-read: 09.04.16 Bad news yet again, the rating is now down to three stars (before, on the first read, I gave it four stars). I really should stop re-reading these books :O Specially when I'm as tired as I have been when re-reading them......more
Second re-read: 05.09.2021 I just couldn't get into the story this time. I really struggled. I'm having problems concentrating and with all the infSecond re-read: 05.09.2021 I just couldn't get into the story this time. I really struggled. I'm having problems concentrating and with all the information this book has, I was bored. I started re-reading it for Adam but he's actually not that much in it and then there's the fact that he doesn't feel all that powerful, and you know me; I'm shallow as fuck - I need my men all powerful. I'm not continuing re-reading the series as I don't see the point in forcing me to finish it. I just skimmed this one, badly. Since I'm guessing it's my mood that is the cause of this, I'm not changing the rating. [image]
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Second re-read: 03.07.2019 This series centers around Volkswagen mechanic and a walker (a magical being with the power to shift into a coyote at will), Mercedes ‘Mercy’ Thompson. Mercy is someone who likes to keep to herself and work on cars, however, that doesn't mean other will leave her alone. Kidnappings, magic, dominance play, fights, darts, guns, exes, betrayals, close death experiences are just some of what appears in this book. It kinda has it all. However, I remember now what I found boring about this book; too much information. Seriously, there's so much information!
I also struggle a bit with connecting with Mercy. I feel like she's holding us reads a bit a bay, like we're on the outside instead of in her head. I had hoped I would feel different this time around since it's been so long since I've read it, but no such luck. The concept of this series is still interesting, but it's not great enough for me to love it. That being said, it's still worth reading even though it's long and I still wish it had more depth to it than information. Unsure whenever I should continue with my re-read of the series or not.
Other Characters: The list is long so I put it in a spoilers tag. (view spoiler)[→ Adam Hauptman, the Alpha of the local werewolf pack (the Columbia Basin Pack), and his human daughter, Jessica ‘Jesse’ Tamarind Hauptman (15). → Samuel ‘Sam’ Llewellyn Cornick, his father, Bran ‘The Marrok’ Cornick, and his brother, Charles Cornick, a financial genius. In the US, all the packs follow the Marrok, a title taken from the name of one of King Arthur’s knights who was a werewolf. The Marrok and his pack have oversight of all the werewolves in North America. Bran's mate, Leah. Samuel is a medical doctor. → Siebold ‘Zee’ Adelbertsmiter of the Black Forest, Mercy's former boss, had retired when he sold her the place, but he’d come out once in a while to “keep his hand in.” He's also a Metallzauber/gremlin. → Medea, Mercy's cat. → Stefan Uccello, a vampire and a somewhat friend of Mercy. → Alan ‘Mac’ MacKenzie Frazier (15?), became a werewolf after an attack. (view spoiler)[Got killed at 20%. (hide spoiler)] → Elizaveta Arkadyevna Vyshnevetskaya, the cleanup crew leader. She was the most powerful witch in the Pacific Northwest. Her grandson, Robert. → Tony Montenegro (33 or so), an undercover cop and Mercy's friend. → Darryl Zao, Adam’s second. He was a Ph.D. engineer working at the Pacific Northwest Laboratories in some sort of government hush-hush project. Auriele, a chemistry teacher at Richland High and Darryl’s mate. → Warren, one of the good guys, a hero, Mercy's favorite in Adam's pack. Warren is also Adam's best friend and most trusted in the pack, and his third. He was also a lone wolf; simply because he's gay and most of the werewolves in power in the US had been born in a time when homosexuality was anathema, even punishable by death in some places. → Kyle Brooks, Warren’s current lover and a lawyer. → Ben, a werewolf in Adam's pack. British. → Carter Wallace, the Aspen Creek veterinarian and became a werewolf a year ago, and still has no control. Gerry, his son and a werewolf. (view spoiler)[Carter went to sleep and never woke up at the end of the book. Samuel killed Gerry after the things he's done. (hide spoiler)] → Margi, Mercy's mother, Curt, Mercy's stepfather → Tad, Mercy's old assistant and Zee's son. → Signora Marsilia, Mistress of the Mid-Columbia Seethe (vampire). → Leo James, one of the Chicago Alphas—there were two of them. → Mary Jo, a firefighter with the Kennewick FD, and pack member to Adam. → Sylvia Sandoval and her son, Gabriel Sandoval. Zee fixed her car and in exchange, Gabriel will work for Mercy. → David Christiansen, the man who Changed with Adam and his old army buddy. His grandsons, Connor and John-Julian. (hide spoiler)]
His voice was soft and sweet as molasses; but my mother once told me that you had to trust that the first thing out of a person’s mouth was truth. After they have a chance to think about it, they’ll change what they say to be more socially acceptable, something they think you’ll be happier with, something that will get the results they want. I knew what he wanted, what he had always wanted from me, even if—while he had been working on Adam’s injuries—Samuel, himself, had forgotten.
Quick basic facts: Genre: - (Adult) Urban Fantasy (M/F) Series: - Series, Book One. Love triangle? - (view spoiler)[No. (hide spoiler)] Cheating? - (view spoiler)[No. (hide spoiler)] HEA? - (view spoiler)[Yes, for now? (hide spoiler)] Favorite character? - Adam Hauptman. Would I read more by this author/or of series? - Sure. Would I recommend this book/series? - Sure. Will I read this again in the future? - It's me... I do love re-reading. Rating - Still the same. [image] Re-read: 06.04.16 It's still good, but the rating is still the same. I guess that's good news, right? :D [image] [image] First read review: I like it! I didn't love it, but yeah, it was enjoyable and I found it had an interesting concept, with good characters. Looking forward to continuing the series. Hopefully it gets much better....more
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