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Brother Wolf was probably right. We are all responsible for our own actions. She was lecturing him, so she stopped. And I am very old. For Anna he would destroy the world. This way, Bran would have no one to argue with but himself. And Asil had always credited Bran with the ability to be persuasive. Yes, I mean the children's book. It wasn't just any deer, either - they looked like Bambi from the disney cartoon.

He just looked at her. Charles, she had to agree, was not tourist material. You might even enjoy it. It might be fun to watch on YouTube. Asil was overstepping himself. He gave Charles a small smile.

They fling themselves at life and emerge broken. Her racist vocabulary obviously needed work. What would a racist call werewolves? There was a funny little pause when he tilted his head to look at her face and then away. While I I regret your embarrassment but otherwise I agree with Brother Wolf. Welcome back. Just a moment while we sign you in to your Goodreads account.

I whipped through this one so fast, both times I read it! It really sucked me in. In Fair Game , werewolves Charles designated executioner of out-of-line werewolves in North America and his wife Anna, the Omega werewolf of the series, are sent from their home in Montana to Boston to help local and federal authorities investigate a serial killer. Turns out the killer is focusing on fae and werewolves, but why? Meanwhile, Charles is having troubles dealing with the ghosts literally of those werewolves he's been ordered to execute, burning out and withdrawing from Anna in the process.

Full review to come. Content notes: torture, violence, discussions of rape and intended rape and murder, a brief sex scene consensual , I think one F-bomb. It's a pretty hard-hitting novel, not for the faint of heart. View all 7 comments. Feb 04, Mandi rated it it was amazing Shelves: uf. I love this urban fantasy world Patricia Briggs has created. In this series we explore the complex relationship of Charles and Anna. Anna is an Omega, a wolf that can calm the fiercest of tempers and is also strong enough to look the Marrock in the eye.

Of course, her human appearance makes he I love this urban fantasy world Patricia Briggs has created. In Fair Game, book three, Patricia Briggs continues to explore the dynamics between this very alpha, serious and quiet wolf Charles and his stubborn wife.

Recently, werewolves outted themselves to the public and it is all about keeping a positive spin with the public.

Patricia Briggs writes her werewolves to be very carnal in nature. Trying to keep the peace, Bran sends Charles out to kill those wolves who have stepped over their boundaries.

Which means Charles is killing many and it is starting to weigh him down. I love how Briggs presents it to the readers as well. You flip-flop by wondering if Bran is using his son to do all his dirty work, or if he really has no one else to send out. Charles has the ghosts of his previous kills lurking around him. They talk to him, scare him, and he is terrified if he acknowledges them too much, they will take control of him an eventually harm his wife. So he keeps this pain and torment hidden from her.

Anna knows something is wrong with Charles and after she begs Bran to help, and he stubbornly says no, she is at a loss for what to do. Brother Wolf, also has a big role in this book. There are kind of two people living inside of Charles, Charles and Brother Wolf. They both love Anna, but sometimes they disagree with each other. It is fascinating how Briggs writes it. Bran does come up with a somewhat temporary solution for him. There have been a string of murders in the Boston area involving werewolves.

The FBI are desperate to catch this serial killer, and have given into the fact they might need a werewolf to give them some insight. With Adam Hauptmann home helping Mercy recover awww! Bran sends Anna and Charles to Boston. Fair Game gives us many great things. First we get a super creepy string of murders that must be solved. We are introduced to some new characters like Leslie with the FBI and Isaac, alpha of the Boston wolves, both who I really enjoyed meeting.

Besides that drama, we get lots of conflict between Charles and Anna. Charles is so stoic and quiet, and protective over his mate, that he has this huge internal struggle going on. Being stubborn, he refuses to let Anna in on what is going on with him, although she knows something is up.

Anna slowly works her magic but it is a long and serious struggle for Charles. They are decent humans, but can be so violent at the snap of your fingers. They are killers first. And I love it. Their political maneuverings are so interesting to me as well. So well built. The end sets up something big. Definitely a series that I think should be read in order. If I had to think of a complaint, it would be that I want more Bran.

Rating: A View all 13 comments. It took me awhile to write this review; the fabulous Ms. Patricia Briggs had wowed me beyond words. Dare I say this is her best work to date? With the third installment of her Alpha and Omega series, Ms.

Briggs has proven she is a master of her craft and draws us completely into her paranormal milieu of werewolves, fae, vampires, ghosts, witches, humans, an occasional zombie, and now serial killers, with subtle skill. How does she do that? Unsurprisingly, right from the start! No splashy opening for her.

Her amazing characters — paranormal or human, virtuous, average, or twisted-sick — held my attention and continued to maintain my enthusiasm for this series. Charles is burning out and Anna, who is definitely coming into her own as Omega, appeals to her father-in-law, Bran Cornick, to listen to her. Bran refuses, so she appeals to Asil, that wily old werewolf, who knows the way to make the Marrok listen to what he already recognizes.

When the FBI calls, asking for help in Boston, Bran realizes he has the perfect reprieve for Charles — and himself — because he sends the pesky Anna with him. As you know, where sociopathic serial killers go the FBI is sure to follow, and this novel becomes, to a large extent, a procedural for a murderous villain, who metes out rape and torture to the human, fae, and werewolf communities, regardless of paranormal ability or gender, so it is not for the faint of heart.

Now the question becomes not just why — but by what means? And how cool is it to bring a pound werewolf to a crime scene? On a leash with a flimsy plastic collar? Regardless of the gradual, pulse-pounding escalation to an adrenaline-rush climax, it is at heart a romance between fated mates, Charles and Anna, as they find a way to make him completely hers again and not brokenhearted and tortured by his personal demons. All in all, a GoodRead! By the way, I loved the hardcover copy.

Is it red? Is it bronze? Depends on how the light catches it. It makes everything that comes afterwards fall into place. If you are also reading the Mercedes Thompson series, then this one should be read after River Marked to avoid spoilers. Hyperlink to site for bigger view.

View all 43 comments. Sep 07, Maria V. Yesterday, I spent almost the entire day reading! It was glorious. I haven't done that in ages! This is the book that I read in two days - a record. I wanted something familiar and since I've been enjoying this series, I picked this up. I'm not a big series reader and only have a few faves because they tend to escalate the problems in each book until it's totally ridiculous.

So far, Briggs has been keeping things interesting without having the world just about to end. If you're interested in thi Yesterday, I spent almost the entire day reading!

If you're interested in this series, you have to start with a novella about the characters that's in and then read book 1 - otherwise you'll be lost. My one concern about Briggs' books is view spoiler [Both female main protagonists, Mercy from her Mercy Thompson series and Anna, in this series have been victims of rape.

This book had serial killers who raped all their victims. And I was super worried when Anna was kidnapped that Briggs would have her raped again. I'm very glad that she didn't or I would have stopped reading her books. I did like how Anna handled herself during the crisis. View all 5 comments. I iz speechless here! That Gray Lord Prince was awesome! I so didn't expect that! Exactly what the Fae did to the prejudiced humans, if you ask me This was a great installment by Patricia Briggs.

I loved never was good a literary stuff so I use bluet-points:D : -Anna: her growth from the scared wolf from the prequel to this book is a lovely thing to watch. The way her bond with Charles and her confidence in his love for her was a very important part in this book. He is very stubborn and smart and the way he can argue with himself is always funny.

Bamby pancakes? Also: I didn't want to finish this that faaaaast Jan 03, Mimi Smith rated it it was amazing Shelves: uf-r. This is, by far, the best in the series for me. I can't even begin to explain how much I enjoyed it.

It takes place after River Marked. Anna and Charles have been together for a year or so, and we see Charles's job as an enforcer is getting to him. He has killed too many, too often and is closing himself off, even from his mate.

Bran decides it might help if he sends Charles to Boston, to investigate a series of deaths stretching back 30 years. Giving him a chance to be a hero-not just a villain. Most of the book deals with the investigation. It is very well done. It's interesting, catching and I really didn't figure it out entirely until it was intended. We follow Anna and Charles around Boston, watching them deal with FBI and such since werewolves are out to the public , investigating the deaths of weres, the fae and humans As to the two of them For Anna he would destroy the world.

She tries to break through, but it's not easy. It's more Charles's struggle and the way the two of them find each other again. I loved seeing them together. And Bran I so want you to get a HEA, you're awesome. And very present here Cute scene: "Da said as he served Anna pancakes. His da liked to make pancakes for breakfast, but the deer-shaped ones were a new thing. Charles tried not to analyze his father when he could avoid it. Charles preferred his deer to taste like meat and his pancakes to look like pancakes.

Brother Wolf thought he was too picky. Brother Wolf was probably right. We do not recognize them. They have no authority over us. From this moment forward we are our own sovereign nation, claiming as our own those lands ceded to us.

We will treat with you, as one hostile nation treats with another, until such time as it seems us good to do elsewise. All will abide my wishes.

What kind of way is that to finish a book? And the next one is coming in ? Not Fair! I'm still under the influence of this. How will it change everything? On which side will the werewolves be? This is shaping to be a war Come On!!!! Mrs Briggs, write faster. Or write longer books! View all 53 comments. Apr 08, Alex is The Romance Fox rated it it was amazing Shelves: paranormal , authors-a-h , romance , urban-fantasy , vampire-shapeshifters , series. The prologue of this book hooked me right into the mystical and magical world that Patricia Briggs has created in her Alpha and Omega Series, where we meet a new character, FBI agent and a human named Leslie Fisher, who plays a huge role in this story.

I fell in love with her immediately…. They have a strong bond and complement each other. But Charles is struggling with his demons The prologue of this book hooked me right into the mystical and magical world that Patricia Briggs has created in her Alpha and Omega Series, where we meet a new character, FBI agent and a human named Leslie Fisher, who plays a huge role in this story. She will do everything to help him deal with his ghosts.

To give Charles a break from his duties as his enforcer, he sends him and Anna to Boston to assist the FBI in finding a serial killer. I really liked that aspect in the story. My favorite quote Despite when I said below that I was done with this series, I love these characters and find myself thinking about them. Briggs is a character driven writer and is brilliant at worldbuilding. I just don't love the story in this particular book and even reading it two times doesn't change that.

I will definitely continue reading the series. I prefer Mercy sorrynotsorry View 2 comments. February Reread. Buddy read with Sarah and Erica. February Re-read I was thinking about this book recently, and realized that I never put in the trigger warnings that I should have: view spoiler [1.

Rape and abuse - the victims in this book are repeatedly sodomized and while there is nothing graphic about it, there is discussion of it happening.

There are also some pretty disturbing moments with the bodies left by the killers - in that the bodies were definitely tortured and disfigured w February Reread. There are also some pretty disturbing moments with the bodies left by the killers - in that the bodies were definitely tortured and disfigured while alive.

The villains in the book are serious racist assholes. As such there is racist language in the books. It's minor, not gratuitous, and not over-used, but it is disturbing - just as it's meant to be.

I adore Anna and Charles. SO much. They're one of my all-time favorite couples. Though the implications of the world-changing event at the end of this book don't really make as big of a splash as I was originally anticipating in the coming books, the effects are subtle - like most everything in a PB book - and consequences are drawn out and not always immediately known.

Even knowing that we don't see immediate results doesn't detract from the awesome power of that moment at the end of this book. It's an amazing moment, and I really, really hope that we see more of a certain character again I'm really trying to avoid spoilers here. March Re-read: I just read this book again, and love it as much. In fact as soon as I finished I wanted to start it again. Original Review: People as old and powerful as he should never be given someone to love.

This has easily become one of my favorite series, period. The relationship that Patricia Briggs builds, between all the characters, but especially between Charles and Anna, is stunning. Fair Game starts right on the heels of the end of River Marked , so the time-lines are finally matching up.

The werewolves have come out the public, and with that the rules for werewolves have become much more strict. With more and more wolves needing to be pulled into line, Charles is busier than ever, and it's starting to wear on him. Anna's worried about him, and takes it to Bran - who doesn't know what to do. As I said above, Charles and Anna's relationship is the true draw of this series for me.

The fact that their relationship requires work on both their parts makes it very real. It's been a few years since Charles and Anna met, in Chicago and had an instant connection.

Ever since then they've had to work at their relationship and with each other. Sometimes fighting for their relationship, others fighting against the protective instincts of their mate. The love, trust, and respect that underlies all of this is what draws me in and makes me invested in this couple. Charles spends a good amount of time trying to protect Anna from the things that are affecting him in Fair Game.

And she rails against that, knowing that she can help if only he'll let her. It's an interesting dynamic to watch - Charles, the dominant, can't really help the need to protect. Anna, an Omega who loves her mate above all, can not stop the driving need to help. They butt heads a few times; there are consequences for their actions - something that I've always loved in this world - and in the end they come out stronger.

I never doubt that they'll make it work, because they truthfully never doubt they will. The mystery plot that drives the book is interesting, and different. We're out in the world, seeing the wolves interact with federal agencies, trying to stop a serial killer for them - instead of the secretive world of the supernatural community. After seeing how many people had been attacked by this killer, so many of them children, I was anxious to see Charles and Anna bring him to justice.

I was able to figure out who the mystery bad-guy was before the end, but it didn't detract from the story at all. The major event at the end though, Blew. I did not see it coming, and can not wait to see the wider implications throughout the world. Immediately after finishing the book I had to go back and re-read this part again because I was sure I'd mis-read it originally. This book kept me on the edge of my seat, reading late into the night to finish it, and satisfied on all levels.

Patricia Briggs keeps getting better and better, and I can't wait to see what she comes out with next. I freaking loved this book! I loved the mystery, I loved Charles and Anna! I loved the glimpses of Adam and the Mercy Thompson world. Bran was amazing and Briggs gave us a good amount of Bran. Patricia Briggs has that special something that makes me feel so happy and contented to slip into her world and read any one of her books. The characters may be scary and the subject matter disturbing, but Briggs writes them in such a rich way that I wish I was there.

They are strong, not entirely in control of their strength and quite a few of her supernaturals operate around a completely different moral compass than humans do. I love this about her books. The vampires are scary, the Fae are an unknown and usually powerful and scream-worthy and the werewolves?

They are strong, beautiful, loyal but definitely not human. Some of her past books have dwelt to heavily with Fae characters, in my opinion; Fair Game strikes the perfect balance. There is Fae intrigue but it takes place in the human world and involves human beings, werewolves and sociopaths. The focus of the story never strays from the werewolves and Anna and Charles are front in center. There are references to the resolution of River Marked, readers who have not yet read River Marked and plan to do so, be warned there are spoilers to the ending of River Marked in Fair Game.

Based on the timing, Charles and Anna have been together a few years and Anna has been in Montana for awhile. Like any couple, there are issues and Charles and Anna are no exception. Unfortunately, their problems have more to do with Bran and the outside world.

Okay, so what about Charles and Anna? I have a strong preference for urban fantasy and fantasy with creative world building, intricate worlds and rich characters but if you throw in a romance, I will enjoy it. Well, Briggs does more than just throw in a romance, the story of Charles and Anna is not the driving force of these books — the characters, the world and the storyline are — -but Charles and Anna provide the structure and vehicle for telling the story. There would be no story without their relationship.

Fans of Charles and Anna will not be disappointed, readers are treated with quite a few very sweet scenes and a few issues the couple has to work through. Maybe I say that too lightly — the issues facing the couple are dark, twisted and well, Briggs came up with a truly unique storyline of what was stressing Charles and Anna.

Readers will not be left on a cliff wondering if Charles and Anna can resolve their problems though, Briggs wraps up these issues by the end of the novel. The ending was fantastic. I loved it. Many writers in this genre put out installment after installment of books that do not push the story arc further or change the game at all. Fair Game is not like that nor is Briggs a writer like that. Readers learn more about the Fae and their crazy world, more about the werewolves — and the characters and the worlds come to a very dramatic ending that leaves off in a way that makes me beyond excited for the next book!

I have two complaints. First, I wish it was longer. Fair Game is a decent length novel, but I wanted more. Briggs definitely did not skimp on storyline or character development, I just am greedy and want more. Second, I fear it will be another 2 years or more until we get the next installment. Mercy Thompson 7 is due out Spring , I guess I will have to be content with re-reading both Mercy and Alpha and hoping for some short stories from Briggs along the way.

Full review at www. View all 28 comments. Reviewed by: Rabid Reads. I'm used to the events in series installments taking place a few weeks, if not days apart, so I was a little disconcerted by the fact that FAIR GAME jumped two full years into the future. Latham was Cornick's designated handler, and the outcome was quite comedic as you can probably imagine. As previously mentioned, these two have hit a rocky point in their relationship, mostly because Charles' enforcer role is beginning to wear on him thanks to stricter penalties towards misbehaving werewolves.

I love how even when this couple is at their lowest they still continue to communicate, and resolve their problems angst free.

The fae have always played an active role in Briggs' universe, and I was excited to finally learn the real reason why they retreated to their reservations in her MT books. I never realized that such an important segment was missing until this newsflash roared to life, and forced me to revisit everything that I've learned to date in both worlds.

This author sure knows how to give her protagonists a deserving foe while also ensuring that all of the secondary characters have a big impact on the overall story.

I liked how Leslie's plot thread popped up throughout the novel when you least expected it to, and I really hope that she makes an encore appearance in this series. He's brought something extra to every installment, and in this latest one it was his Boston accents. His attention to detail never ceases to amaze, from the consistency of the protagonists, to the slight differences between Charles and Brother Wolf's tones.

Several new characters were added, and he made it easy to identify each and every one of them. Graham's delivery has improved a great deal when compared to the first audiobook which I still adored, and as a result, he's now among my top three male narrators. Feb 04, Choko rated it really liked it Shelves: vampires , urban-fantasy. Yes, he is my perfect alpha male:- Smart, strong, with a sense of humor and responsibility, overprotective but also attentive and loving - what is not to love????

However, he Anna and he are the perfect couple, so I have to bow out and just enjoy their connection Connection, which in this book was under threat, mating bond damaged by guilt and self-doubt Anna has gained in self-awareness and confidence, but Charles who has been acting as Bran's executioner for over a century, begins a slow mental meltdown dew to enforcing some death orders, the justice of which he doubts, and guilt darkens his existence.

Bran has been put in a difficult position, having to put the good of the pack ahead of his son's possible loss of control. In order to take away some of the pressure and burn-out from the harshness of his son's duties, Bran decides to send Charles and Anna to Boston to help in a case of a serial killer and boost some good PR for the wolfs.

A bunch of police procedural follows, aided by some wolf and Fae magic, and many become imperiled It wraps up in a court and sadly, fear prevails The good part of the content was how much Anna has grown into a strong capable woman, and a wolf who will fight to the death for her mate and their bond, even when Charles was blinded by turmoil and had become separate from her. Bran has a big role to play in all of this and I wish we saw a bit more of him - he is a very charismatic character and steels every scene he shows up in.

This was a tough book to read, I am not sure exactly why, but I think it has a lot to do with the subject matter when it came to the serial killer and his victims And the bigotry that obviously lives strong in the human population, making any progress on the side of the preternatural creatures nullified and leaving tension all around I have noticed that, although I love all the books in the Mercy Thompson world, the Alpha and Omega books seem to leave me sad, when Mercy's books fill me with more hope, even when they might be bloodier Despite that, I would recommend to all who read Urban Fantasy not to miss even one book in the series - they are all worth the time!!!

Have a very pleasant reading to all!!! I have a question and since I'm too bored to look it up I'll wait until some awesome GRs friend answers me Is this series going to have another book? I thought it was a trilogy but I have to admit the end felt like it left things unresolved. This book begins about a year after Bran made the werewolves public. Since humans now know about shifters Bran has applied stricter rules and Charles is the one who plays the executioner, a job that has began to t 5 stars goes without saying of course!

Since humans now know about shifters Bran has applied stricter rules and Charles is the one who plays the executioner, a job that has began to take its toll from our beloved hero because he doesn't believe everyone who died deserved it. In an attempt to help him Bran sends Anna and Charles to help the FBI solve a serial killer case where the killer seems to have changed his prey to shifters. In this book Anna's and Charles' relationship goes through some problems.

It's nice to see how they develop as characters. Anna has come a long way from the frightened girl she was when she first met Charles and Charles has come a long way from the closed off person he was before Anna. Btw, in most shifter books the heroes go at it like rabbits.

It's nice for a change to have a couple who can interact with each other without having to fight back "uncontrolable" lust. Not they didn't have one or two sexy moments but they didn't jump one another at every corner. In this book we have fairies, cops and murderers.

I kind of liked the fact that it had more of a mystery feeling than the others. The story was fast paced and well-written as usual and the end just blew my head off. The sad thing is that stuff like that happen in real life too.

Maybe there aren't shifters-vamps-fairies but humans can become worse monsters than any of the fictional ones and I'm not just talking about the murderer but for the people who let him get away with it too!

Jul 20, Sarah rated it it was amazing Shelves: read-in , read-in , read-in , books-i-own-print , books-i-own-kindle , read-in , buddy-read , favorites. They are still fairly new mates and have issues to work through on both sides but they've come a long way since they first met. Anna now trusts Charles implicitly, she knows without a doubt that he would never hurt her and she also trusts him to keep her safe around other wolves which is a big thing for her.

In this instalment it is Charles who has issues that cause a bump in their relationship but I never once doubted that they would be able to work things out between them. For centuries Charles has been his father's right hand man, he is the one that Bran sends out whenever there are problems and Charles is the one who has to issue any punishments to problem werewolves.

Werewolf justice has always been swift and severe but now that the wolves have come out to the public it is more important than ever that they don't let the humans see the monsters they can become if they're out of control.

This has meant that Charles has been spending more and more time as the Pack executioner and it's taking a toll on him physically and mentally. He hates what he has to do and he worries that it will make Anna think of him as a monster so he tries to hide things from her for her protection. Of course this has the opposite effect because Anna thinks he doesn't trust her enough to let her help him. While I could see where both sides were coming from I was totally behind Anna as she fought to get through to Charles and make him let her in.

I absolutely loved the way Anna went to bat for Charles and put Bran straight on a few things, as an Omega she is outside the Pack hierarchy so she is able to put Bran in his place like no other wolf can. She had an unlikely ally in the form of Asil and I have to admit I loved the scene where he points out a few home truths to Bran. I've loved Bran since we met him in the Mercy series but he definitely had a blind spot when it came to Charles and what being the Pack enforcer was doing to him emotionally.

It takes Charles a while but he gradually comes to realise what is important to him and seeing him open up to Anna was fabulous. My favourite quote from the book is this one from when Charles has a major epiphany: Honor, duty, and love. He would not sacrifice Anna for his father and all the other werewolves in existence. Given a choice, he chose love. I'm deliberately not going to say too much about the plot of Fair Game in this review. Charles and Anna are sent to assist the FBI with an investigation into a serial killer and they quickly discover that the killer is targeting the supernatural community.

This series just keeps getting better and better with every book and I think this is my new favourite instalment. I'm just gutted that I'm now up to date with both series and will have to wait until next year for the next book to be published. Patricia Briggs is without a doubt an auto buy author for me and I can't recommend her books highly enough! I love this series so much! The characters, the world building just everything about these books makes them a comfort read for me.

Unfortunately the racism and hatred in this novel for anyone different seems even more relevant than ever right now and it hits home a bit harder because of that.

Beauclaire is an awesome character though and his speech at the end was just so spot on, now we need a real life version of him to sort out the real world too please! View all 8 comments. Oh Anna and Charles, I love you so much. From the very first Alpha and Omega novella, Patricia Briggs has given this hero and heroine such depth of character, that I feel like I know them. They are flawed, brave, loyal, insecure, and violent. But above and beyond all that, they always love one other.

This book may be my favorite yet in the series. I was surprised at the onset to see how much time had passed since the events of Hunting Ground. While it's not spelled out precisely, it's been a few Oh Anna and Charles, I love you so much. While it's not spelled out precisely, it's been a few years.

Events from River Marked are referenced and we know the first two books take place roughly around the same time as Moon Called. But what's interesting is that Charles and Anna have changed very little with the passage of time.

I would have expected that with a love like theirs, a few years would find these two in the happiest place they've ever been. But things are harder than ever. Charles has always been his father's sword of justice. But now that the werewolves are "out" to human society, it's vital to keep a lid on werewolf violence.

So Bran's sending Charles out to kill their misbehaving brethren in record numbers. It's wearing on Charles; breaking his spirit; and driving him to cut himself off from Anna. He's haunted by the ghosts of his prey.

To give him a reprieve, Bran sends Charles and Anna to Boston to help human investigators solve a serial killer case. The killer has been torturing and murdering victims for decades. And in recent years, he's moved onto Fae and werewolf targets. Details of the killer's depravity were disturbing at times, but it was really a captivating case. The mystery introduces us to new characters, like Leslie, a tough human FBI agent; Isaac, the Alpha of the Boston pack; and Beauclaire, a fascinating Fae whose daughter was among the abducted.

I won't spoil all the amazing twists and turns, but I can say that it was unpredictable and kept me on the edge of my seat. The world-building is flawless and merges seamlessly with the Mercy Thompson series.

I love the effortless way I can sink back into these books. But most of all, I love unfailing way that Charles and Anna love each other. It baffles me that either one can still manage to question their worth to the other, when it's so obvious how deep their love runs. But it's gratifying to see them prove that love over and over again.

I give the book extra points for giving me a little peek inside Bran's head. And double bonus points for a spectacular ending, guaranteed to bring repercussions into future books in this series and the Mercy Thompson one.