Cry Wolf by Patricia Briggs, narrated by Holter Graham
#1 Alpha and Omega
Urban Fantasy
Publisher: Penguin
Audio
Published: 1.15.09
Time: 10 hours 3
minutes
Rating: 4.5 stars
Format: audio
Source: purchased
Sellers: Amazon
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GoodReads Synopsis:
Anna never knew werewolves existed
until the night she survived a violent attack...and became one herself. After
three years at the bottom of the pack, she'd learned to keep her head down and
never, ever trust dominant males. But Anna is that rarest kind of werewolf: an
Omega. And one of the most powerful werewolves in the country will recognize
her value as a pack member - and as his mate.
Sophia Rose's Review:
A poor, abused newly-mated female omega werewolf starts life
anew far from her old city home and abusive pack to be with her large, powerful
alpha mate in his wilderness home. As they learn about each other and
barely start to work through the struggles of a new mating and her abuse, he is
needed to take care of a growing threat out in the wilderness- and she won't
let him go it alone.
Cry Wolf is the first book in the
Alpha & Omega series though I urge listeners to begin with the true first
book, the prequel novella, Alpha and
Omega which is the beginning to Charles and Anna's story.
Patricia Briggs did a fantastic job with this book. This is urban fantasy
at its best with a desperate, taunt supernatural adventure involving powerful
and cunning beings, but it is also an exploration of a relationship that begins
so fragile and raw that the tentative link could break at any time.
Anna is a unique and gifted omega wolf and has no idea what she truly is.
She has been beaten down and suppressed, abused on all levels for three years
since she was forcibly made a werewolf. She survived this, but barely
when Charles came along as her rescuer and hero. Her wolf and his
declared them mates, but her human side feels way out of her element and half-way
prepared to run from her new circumstances though Charles is everything she
could want in a mate.
Charles, a lone wolf for a few centuries now, an enforcer, and the terror of
most wolves, must somehow convince gentle Anna to give him and Brother Wolf a
chance. He's recovering from silver bullet wounds and rattled by their
new circumstances, but he must somehow figure out how to gain her trust and
love before she runs. Perhaps this venture into the deep wilderness in
winter together at his dad's orders will help them find their way- or be the
straw to break them.
There is mystery and a build of nail-biting suspense as this pair match up
against an old and powerful evil out in the wild.
Holter Graham does a fantastic job voicing the large cast of characters and catching
the tone of the story. I am eager to experience more of his work as I
progress through the series.
Author Bio:
Patricia Briggs
steadfastly refuses to write a biography. She considers them narcissistic, and
besides, she’d rather write something interesting! But. . .that is
what a husband and trusty assistant are for (and if she doesn’t like it, she
can’t complain!)
Patricia is the
#1 New York Times best selling author of the Mercy Thompson series and has
written twenty four novels to date; she is currently writing novel number
twenty five. She has short stories in several anthologies, as well as a series
of comic books and graphic novels based on her Mercy Thompson and Alpha and
Omega series. Patty began her career writing traditional high fantasy novels in
1993, and shifted gears in 2006 to write urban fantasy. Moon Called was the
first of her signature series about Mercy; the non-stop adventure left readers
wanting more and word of this exciting new urban fantasy series about a
shape-shifting mechanic spread quickly. The series has continued to grow in
popularity with the release of each book. Patty also writes the Alpha and Omega
series, which are set in the same world as the Mercy Thompson novels; what
began as a novella expanded into a full new series, all of which debuted on the
NY Times bestsellers list as well.
Patty was born in
Butte, Montana, back in 1965. If you’re good at math, you’ll have deduced that
she’s currently twenty-nine. In fact, she’s been twenty-nine for a while and
has no intention of getting any older. Fiction authors don’t obey the laws of
space and time, they invent them. Don’t argue, or she’ll make up a dragon right
behind you . . .
Patricia was born
book-privileged. Her mother was a school librarian, and she shared a room with
an older sister who loved to read. Long after they had been put to bed, her
sister would use the small night light to read Patty stories; her early
favorites were fairy tales. Knights and castles, fair maidens, and monsters of
every ilk became their nighttime companions.
Soon, Patty
learned to read, and whole worlds were hers to explore. She rode on the Black
Stallion, and flew the skies of Pern on a dragon. Sometime during that period
she stumbled onto a treasure trove. Her older sister had begun collecting comic
books; pristine originals were place in cellophane sleeves and organized in
cardboard boxes. When her sister was away, they were removed by grubby fingers
smeared with peanut butter and jelly for a clandestine read, returning with a
faint smudges and wrinkled pages from reading under the covers. To this day,
her sister periodically calls Patty and tells her how much more her original
copies of the X-Men would have been worth if left pristine in their sleeves.
The number keeps going up.
Patty is a
prevarication professional. She lies for a living, telling whoppers and fibs so
outrageous that people pay her to fib some more. Her only concession to honesty
is that she tells people she’s lying to them, which is what separates a fiction
author from a politician. She loves to play with her imaginary friends, and
meeting with readers who know her imaginary friends is a treat. Her biggest
complaint with writing is that she has far more ideas for stories than time to
write them.
Patty and her
family reside in Eastern Washington near Tri-Cities, home of Mercy Thompson;
yes, it's a real place! When not working on the next book, she can be found
playing truant out in her horse pastures, playing with the newest babies.
Website: https://www.patriciabriggs.com/
Sophia’s Bio:
Sophia
is a quiet though curious gal who dabbles in cooking, book reviewing,
piano-playing, and gardening. Road trips and campouts, museums and monuments,
restaurants and theaters are her jam. Encouraged and supported by an incredible
man and loving family. A Northern Californian transplant to the Great Lakes
Region of the US. Lover of Jane Austen, Baseball, Cats, Scooby Doo, and
Chocolate.
As a lifelong reader, it was inevitable that
Sophia would discover book blogs and the joy of blog reviewing. Sophia is a
prolific reader and audiobook listener which allows her to experience so many
wonderful books, authors, and narrators. Few genres are outside her reading
tastes, but her true love is fiction particularly history, mystery, sci-fi, and
romance. Though, sorry, no horror or she will run like Shaggy and Scooby.
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