

“In the increasingly crowded field of kick-ass supernatural heroines, Mercy stands out as one of the best. THE FIRST MERCY THOMPSON NOVELMoon Called is the novel that introduced Patricia Briggs’s Mercy Thompson to the world and launched a 1 bestselling phenomenon. Mercy asks her neighbor Adam Hauptman, the Alpha of the local werewolf pack, for assistance.īut Mercy’s act of kindness has unexpected consequences that leave her no choice but to seek help from those she once considered family-the werewolves who abandoned her. A half-starved teenage boy arrives at her shop looking for work, only to reveal that he’s a newly changed werewolf-on the run and desperately trying to control his animal instincts. So she’s turned her talent for fixing cars into a business and now runs a one-woman mechanic shop in the Tri-Cities area of Washington State.īut Mercy’s two worlds are colliding. Mercy Thompson is a shapeshifter, and while she was raised by werewolves, she can never be one of them, especially after the pack ran her off for having a forbidden love affair. “In the increasingly crowded field of kick-ass supernatural heroines, Mercy stands out as one of the best.Moon Called is the novel that introduced Patricia Briggs’s Mercy Thompson to the world and launched a #1 bestselling phenomenon. Mercy asks her neighbor Adam Hauptman, the Alpha of the local werewolf pack, for assistance.īut Mercy’s act of kindness has unexpected consequences that leave her no choice but to seek help from those she once considered family-the werewolves who abandoned her. Anyone coming into this series in the year 2017 might be thinking of the likes of Twilight and Fifty Shades of Grey when I talk about that kind of thing though, so rest assured: Patricia Briggs is a much, much, much much much better writer than Stephanie Meyer or E.

Moon Called is the novel that introduced Patricia Briggs’s Mercy Thompson to the world and launched a #1 bestselling phenomenon.
