Title: Frost Burned
Author: Patricia Briggs
Rating: 4.5/5 Stars
Genre: Paranormal
ISBN: 0441020011
Publisher Ace Hardcover an Imprint of Penguin
Mercy Thompson of Frost Burned doesn’t do ordinary, not even Black Friday is without it’s perils when Mercy is involved. I am a diehard Mercy Thompson fan. There, I admit it. I absolutely love the stories that writer Patricia Briggs weaves in her telling of the Native American coyote walker.
What? You’re lost already? Okay, well to help you catch up, the series reading order is below. For all you other Mercy Thompson fans you can skip to the good part, my review.
Moon Called (Mercy Thompson #1)
Mercy Thompson’s life is not exactly normal. Her next-door neighbor is a werewolf. Her former boss is a gremlin. And she’s fixing a VW bus for a vampire. But then, Mercy isn’t exactly normal herself.
Blood Bound (Mercy Thompson #2)
Under the rule of science, there are no witch burnings allowed, no water trials or public lynchings. In return, the average law-abiding, solid citizen has little to worry about from the things that go bump in the night. Sometimes I wish I was an average citizen…
Mechanic Mercy Thompson has friends in low places-and in dark ones. And now she owes one of them a favor. Since she can shapeshift at will, she agrees to act as some extra muscle when her vampire friend Stefan goes to deliver a message to another of his kind.
But this new vampire is hardly ordinary-and neither is the demon inside of him.
Iron Kissed (Mercy Thompson #3)
I could smell her fear, and it satisfied something deep inside me that had been writhing under her cool, superior gaze. I curled my upper lip so she could get a good look at my sharp teeth. I might only weigh thirty or so pounds in my coyote shape, but I was a predator…
Mechanic Mercy Thompson can shift her shape – but not her loyalty. When her former boss and mentor is arrested for murder and left to rot behind bars by his own kind, it’s up to Mercy to clear his name, whether he wants her to or not.
Mercy’s loyalty is under pressure from other directions, too. Werewolves are not known for their patience, and if Mercy can’t decide between the two she cares for, Sam and Adam may make the choice for her…
Bone Crossed (Mercy Thompson #4)
Marsilia, the local vampire queen, has learned that Mercy crossed her by slaying a member of her clan. Now, she’s out for blood. But since Mercy is protected from direct reprisal by the werewolf pack-and her relationship with its sexy Alpha-it’s not Mercy’s blood Marsilia is after…
Silver Borne (Mercy Thompson #5)
Being a mechanic is hard work. Mercy Thompson, for instance, just spent the last couple of months trying to evade the murderous queen of the local vampire seethe. And now the leader of the werewolf pack, who’s maybe-more-than-just-a-friend, has asked for her help. A book of fae secrets has come to light and they’re all about to find out how implacable – and dangerous – the fae can be.
OK, so maybe her troubles have nothing to do with the job. But she sure could use a holiday…
Being a different breed of shapeshifter – a walker – Mercy Thompson can see ghosts, but the spirit of her long-gone father has never visited her. Until now, on her honeymoon with the Alpha werewolf Adam. An evil is stirring in the depths of the Columbia River – and innocent people are dying. As other walkers make their presence known to Mercy, she must reconnect with her heritage to exorcise the world of the legend known as the river devil.
REVIEW
Took you long enough! Meanwhile, I fixed myself a sandwich. I left out the fixins just in case you got hungry. As you can see Frost Burned, is the seventh book in the Mercy Thompson series, and I think that is a good solid continuation of the series. As always Briggs seamlessly blends, folklore and fantasy to give the readers a solid adventure. The characters in all of Briggs’ Thompson novels are well developed and this book is no different. When you read a Briggs novel you know that no character get skimmed over. When the characters of Frost Burned interact with each other their deep emotional ties are ever present in the way Briggs writes her scenes and dialogue. The tale that Briggs tells in Frost Burned is more character driven than her previous Thompson book River Marked, which was very action driven.
I found this book more engrossing, yes Mercy is usually the out of the frying pan into the fire type book, but this book is one about how deep ties that bind can be, and how family isn’t necessarily who you are born into, but rather who you choose. Of course there is action, Mercy wouldn’t be Mercy unless she and those she loved were in danger, and her pack (those she considers hers to protect) keeps growing and growing. I loved that Tad, Zee’s son played a good size role in this book, he was a great character to get to know better.
What I didn’t like about this book, is sad. I will not elaborate, because no one should spoil a story.
This book has set the stage for the coming conflicts that Mercy and gang are sure to face in the next book.
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