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Blood Bound (Mercy Thompson, Book 2)
- Mass Market Paperback
- Author: Patricia Briggs
- Publisher: Ace
- Release Date: January 2007
- ISBN-10: 0441014739
- ISBN-13: 9780441014736
- List Price: $7.99
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Summaries and Customer Reviews provided by Amazon
SummaryMechanic Mercy Thompson has friends in low places-and in dark ones. And now she owes one of them a favor. Since she can shapeshift at will, she agrees to act as some extra muscle when her vampire friend Stefan goes to deliver a message to another of his kind. But this new vampire is hardly ordinary-and neither is the demon inside of him. |
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
GREAT!!
Rating:
Patrica Briggs has done it again! Another enjoyable read!! A must have!
-Speedi
Blood Bound
Rating: 
Book Two of the Mercy Thompson series picks up pretty quickly after the first book and starts right in on the action.
Mercy is an auto mechanic and a walker that can turn into a coyote but raised by werewolves and trained by a fae. To add to that Mercy is actually friends with Stefan, one of the local vampires. When Stefan asks Mercy to accompany him to confront a new vampire in town things start to get really prickly.
The new vampire is also 'demon-ridden' and a sorcerer. The demon-vamp causes all sorts of discord just by his presence and can affect the minds of other vampires. Only Mercy really has a prayer of stopping him and she is not exactly the kind of chick that goes looking for that kind of action. But with the werewolves and the vampires nearly incapacitated Mercy steps up the plate with a little help from the fae.
Mercy is a terrific heroine because she is not a know-it-all, kick-@ss, overly sexual character. She is portrayed as very human and seems to only manage to get herself out of situations through luck, bravado and sheer perspicacity. This unperfection makes her very endearing and Mercy continues to grow as a character.
HUH?!?!
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These books are very confusing to me. Patricia Briggs would not make a good teacher, she does not explain things well, at all. The story opens up in a good way, presents a new bad guy, and a reason to go mystery solving and hunting. Then, there are about 200 pages of filler that give you no clue as to who created the bad guy, or where the bad guy could be hiding. There may have been a small cryptic hint here or there. Then, out of no where, Mercy figures out where the bad guy is hiding. How she figured it out makes no real sense, and when she is explaining it to other characters in the book, I see that it is supposed to be illuminating and is supposed to help the reader understand, but it doesn't. There is no building up to the solution or the problems, it just comes to her, and the bad guy is dead. Then we are offered some strange explanation of how she figured it out. Wait, it doesn't end there, we still have to figure out who made the bad guy, and how do we do that? Well, we follow some ghost lady, I think?
The lack of suspense, and magical solution to problems turned me off of this series. The only reason I could think of to read on is that at the end there is a new small mystery that we are presented. Why is Adam in that picture? Is it enough to make me read the next book? No, because I'm sure we would go through 300 pages of nonsense and then Mercy would figure something out and fail to explain it to me.
A Wonderful Series
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I picked up the third volume of the Mercy Thompson series in the library and loved it. I picked up another of her books through Amazon and realized that I loved that book too. So I bought all three of the books in this series so I could own them and read the series from the beginning.
I expected the first two books to be less well written than the third one, but I was wrong. All of the books in this series, and the related Alpha and Omega series are very well crafted. And reading the series from the beginning made a lot of things that I had not quite understood in my first reading of the third book a lot clearer.
This is really a review of the series as a whole. She has built a universe focused on Werewolves, although the main character is not one, but something else somehow not quite related. Mercy is a very strong female character, dominant although she doesn't seem to realize it. In the underlying story arc she is trying to find her own place in a very dangerous world, and also choose between two very dangerous men.
Each of the books in the series has a complex plot, moving through its own story while simultaneously moving through the multi-book arc.
Wow! What a Great paranormal series!
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Yes, I did read Moon Called, the first in the series & loved it! Why write the review for the second book? Because it really rocked me. Moon Called successfully shows Briggs as an inventive, captivating storyteller w/ intriguing characters in an interesting world. In Blood Bound, she took it a few steps further for me & intertwined a genuinely creative monster that actually gave me the freaks. And I don't scare easy. It was the perfect amount of mayhem added to this already gripping read. I thoroughly enjoy this series & anxiously/impatiently await the next book...
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