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Fair Game by Patricia Briggs, Narrated by Holter Graham
#3 Alpha and Omega
Urban Fantasy
Publisher: Penguin
Audio
Published: 3.6.12
Time: 9 hours 58
minutes
Rating: 4.5 stars
Format: audio
Source: library borrow
Sellers: Amazon
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GoodReads Synopsis:
Patricia Briggs, the #1 "New York
Times" bestselling author of the Mercy Thompson novels, "always
enchants her readers." (Lynn Viehl, "New York Times" bestselling
author) Now her Alpha and Omega series-set in a world of shifting shapes,
loyalty, and passion- brings werewolves out of the darkness and into a society
where fear and prejudice could make the hunters prey...
They say opposites attract. And in the case of werewolves
Anna Latham and Charles Cornick, they mate. The son-and enforcer-of the leader
of the North American werewolves, Charles is a dominant alpha. While Anna, an
omega, has the rare ability to calm others of her kind.
Now that the werewolves have revealed themselves to
humans, they can't afford any bad publicity. Infractions that could have been
overlooked in the past must now be punished, and the strain of doing his
father's dirty work is taking a toll on Charles.
Nevertheless, Charles and Anna are sent to Boston, when
the FBI requests the pack's help on a local serial killer case. They quickly
realize that not only the last two victims were werewolves-all of them were.
Someone is targeting their kind. And now Anna and Charles have put themselves
right in the killer's sights...
Sophia Rose's Review:
I'm revisiting this series on audio
and was excited about it because the books were starting to get vague in my
memories after all these years.
Fair
Game is the third installment to Charles and Anna’s story. A quick word to any newbies to Patricia
Briggs: One gets more out of these stories when both the Alpha & Omega and
Mercy Thompson series are combined as one series. There are references to the
other series and the longer one reads in both series there is an understanding
the reader-listener is already keeping up with both series simultaneously.
Fair Game
begins about six months after book two, Hunting
Ground. The wolves have just come out of the closet with the fae to the
human public and it has made their every action much more important. Before the
coming out, certain infractions among the wolves were left as a warning. Now,
it is a killing issue and these killings occur more frequently than ever never
leaving Charles, as the Enforcer, time to recover from what he must do.
Charles’ has always done his duty and performed in the name of justice, but as
of late he is weighted down heavily by guilt and remorse. He cuts himself off
from Anna and she is terrified that they are losing him.
A creative solution is found to give Charles some respite
from this soul-eating job. Bran decides to send Anna and Charles to liaison
with the FBI in Boston to stop a serial killer who has targeted humans, fae,
and werewolves. Anna and Charles find
that the FBI team also includes people from two other agencies who can barely
tolerate each other (surprised?) let alone the idea of working with werewolves.
Some of the team consider them as nothing other than monsters (yay team). They
are joined by the fae father of this last victim. Time is running out as they
all work to find the answers. In the meantime, Anna and Charles have Charles’
inner demons to work on too.
The plot was as intriguing and captivating as what one
can usually expect in this series. It is multi-layered and kept me on my toes.
The relationship between Charles and Anna is obviously a keystone to the story,
but the action was exciting too. I was on pins and needles as Charles and Anna
were working hard to repair the fractures in their relationship caused by his
wet work for Bran and the deep guilt Charles was bowed under had a mystical
quality that was keeping him from functioning at his best right when things got
dire and deadly for them all. Something
big happens at the end that will have repercussions on both series.
The characters were well written. I loved the
introduction to the new characters in Boston. The Boston alpha, Isaac, was
amusing the way he deliberately tried to irritate Charles and soon learned that
he had a tiger by the tail. The FBI agent, Leslie Fisher is tough, skillful,
but has intellect and humor too. The small scenes with Bran and Asil are always
good.
But as great as the plot and characters are, it is the
world building that takes these books from just the ‘great’ to the
abso-fabulous level. Patricia Briggs is a world builder and story
teller par excellence. Now I’ll be
impatiently waiting for the next installment.
Holter Graham is a fabulous narrator
and I've been enjoying what he brings to the story.
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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