I've been spending a lot of time with my new friend Mercy Thompson lately, having read the first three books in her series in the past two weeks. I had a hard time getting engrossed in Iron Kissed, and was concerned that the spell was broken.
Then the story got going and forced me to stay up until 2 a.m. frantically turning pages, because I couldn't go to sleep until I had unravelled the story's mystery.
Like all of the other books in Patricia Briggs' Mercedes Thompson series, the story is rooted in a magical world where werewolves, vampires and walkers live among humans in relative harmony. This installment focuses on the fae world, as Mercy is forced to defend her mentor and surrogate father Zee, a "gremlin" that has been framed for murder. Mercy, of course, is bent on sniffing out the real killer and exhonerating her friend -- but there are powerful forces at work against her.
The relationships in the series move along (finally!) in this installment, which made me happy. Briggs tends to focus more on the supernatural mystery aspects of her stories and sometimes neglects to also progress the secondary romance storyline, but Iron Kissed finally answered some long-awaited questions on that front -- and built some major anticipation for the newly released fourth book in the series, Bone Crossed.
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Then the story got going and forced me to stay up until 2 a.m. frantically turning pages, because I couldn't go to sleep until I had unravelled the story's mystery.
Like all of the other books in Patricia Briggs' Mercedes Thompson series, the story is rooted in a magical world where werewolves, vampires and walkers live among humans in relative harmony. This installment focuses on the fae world, as Mercy is forced to defend her mentor and surrogate father Zee, a "gremlin" that has been framed for murder. Mercy, of course, is bent on sniffing out the real killer and exhonerating her friend -- but there are powerful forces at work against her.
The relationships in the series move along (finally!) in this installment, which made me happy. Briggs tends to focus more on the supernatural mystery aspects of her stories and sometimes neglects to also progress the secondary romance storyline, but Iron Kissed finally answered some long-awaited questions on that front -- and built some major anticipation for the newly released fourth book in the series, Bone Crossed.
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