Sophia Rose Reviews: Cry Wolf by Patricia Briggs

 

Today Sophia Rose reviews Cry Wolf, the first novel in Patricia Briggs new Alpha and Omega Urban Fantasy series. See what she thought

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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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