Moon Called - Patricia Briggs

· Hardcover: 336 pages
· Publisher: Ace Hardcover 2010
· Language: English
· ISBN-10: 0441019277
· ISBN-13: 978-0441019274

About the Book:

Werewolves can be dangerous if you get in their way, but they’ll leave you alone if you are careful. They are very good at hiding their natures from the human population, but I’m not human. I know them when I meet the, and they know me, too.

Mercy Thompson’s sexy next-door neighbor is a werewolf.

She’s tinkering with a VW bus at her mechanic shop that happens to belong to a vampire.

But then, Mercy Thompson is not exactly normal herself… and her connection to the world of things that go bump in the night is about to get her into a whole lot of trouble.

My Review:

Mercedes Thompson is a walker, meaning she can shift from human to coyote at will. She is not, however, a werewolf, although she was raised by them. She is a mechanic, and lives next door to the Adam, the Alpha of the local werewolf pack. When a newly-changed lone wolf shows up on the doorstep of her mechanic shop, and is attacked for apparently no reason, she calls in Adam. She knows how the packs politics work, and that the lone wolf will not likely survive without the interference of the pack. But as she and Adam investigate the origins of the new wolf, they find there is much more going on than a rogue creating new wolves without permission. When Adam’s daughter, Jesse, is kidnapped Mercy jumps in to help.

I actually read the fifth book in this series first, Silver Borne, and it sent me looking for the first in the series. Her books are well written, drawing you into a strange world, without giving up all of the secrets of how it works. Each book has it’s own pieces of the puzzle, but you never fully understand the fae, or the vampires involved.