I'm so happy to be back to blogging and it's special that my first feature is by my blogging partner Sophia Rose who is sharing her thoughts on Patricia Briggs, Winter Lost #14 in her Mercy Thompson Urban Fantasy series.
Enjoy!!
Winter Lost by Patricia Briggs
#14 Mercy Thompson
Urban Fantasy
Publisher: Ace
Published: 6.18.24
Pages: 416
Rating: 5
Format: eARC
Source: NetGalley
Sellers: Amazon
ADD TO: Goodreads
GoodReads Synopsis:
Mercy Thompson, car mechanic and
shapeshifter, must stop a disaster of world-shattering proportions in this
exhilarating entry in the #1 New York Times bestselling series.
In the supernatural realms, there are creatures who
belong to winter. I am not one of them. But like the coyote I can become at
will, I am adaptable.
My name is Mercy Thompson Hauptman, and my mate, Adam, is
the werewolf who leads the Columbia Basin Pack, the pack charged with keeping
the people who live and work in the Tri-Cities of Washington State safe. It’s a
hard job, and it doesn’t leave much room for side quests. Which is why when I
needed to travel to Montana to help my brother, I intended to go by myself.
But I’m not alone anymore.
Together, Adam and I find ourselves trapped with
strangers in a lodge in the heart of the wilderness, in the teeth of a storm of
legendary power, only to discover my brother’s issues are a tiny part of a
problem much bigger than we could have imagined. Arcane and ancient magics
are at work that could, unless we are very careful, bring about the end of the
world. . . .
Sophia Rose's Review:
Gate crashing a holiday wedding in the
wilds of Montana during a magic-induced snow storm created by Norse god, Mercy
and Adam must once again save the world.
Patricia Briggs has once again and without surprise produced a
rip-roaring Mercy Thompson adventure that makes one regret there is only one
first-time read experience.
Winter
Lost is the fourteenth installment of an amazing urban fantasy series that
is a must-read in order.
Winter
Lost is told predominantly from Mercy’s perspective, but happily has
expanded on previous book’s style in that Adam gets a large chunk of the
telling along with other familiar and brand new characters narrating. This gives a chance for a story that has past
parts and multiple story threads with very little happening off page to the
great reader fan’s satisfaction.
There is no mystery why I suggest this
book be read in order. Part of the plot
and character development is directly linked to the books that came before
it. Mercy is suffering greatly after the
Soultaker adventure and the vampire Lord of Night, Bonarata looms lethally over
Mercy and then there is Jessie’s side plot of something interesting with Tad
and the other big side plot of how the Columbia Basin Pack, top heavy with
Alphas, has to work out the dynamics of working together to do the job of
providing a supernatural haven in the Tri-Cities.
But, the new and exciting is Gary
Laughing Dog, Mercy’s half-brother, landing on her door step needing her help
and a fascinating new winter adventure with a dip into the realm of Fae meets
Norse mythology. Mercy and Adam are up
against the clock to find a magical artifact and the one who stole it before
something worse than a Montana snow storm on steroids and monsters attacking
out of the snow happens.
Again, I planned to take my time and
savor Winter Lost, but the story is
just too compelling and drove me to keep reading rapidly and lost to the world
of real life around me. Fans will be
deeply satisfied and to those who look at a series in double digits and
hesitate? Worth it!
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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