I didn't realize he was a werewolf at first. My nose isn't at its best when surrounded by axle grease and burnt oil . . .'Mercedes Thompson runs a garage in the Tri-Cities. She's a mechanic, and a damn good one, who spends her spare time karate training and tinkering with a VW bus that happens to belong to a vampire. Her next-door neighbour is an alpha werewolf - literally, the leader of the pack. And Mercy herself is a shapeshifter, sister to coyotes. As such, she's tolerated by the 'wolves but definitely down the pecking order. As long as she keeps her eyes down and remembers her place, the pack will leave her in peace.

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Listening Length	9 hours and 14 minutes
Author	Patricia Briggs
Narrator	Lorelei King
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Audible.com Release Date	September 01, 2009
Publisher	Penguin Audio
Program Type	Audiobook
Version	Unabridged
Language	English
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Sinn

I can't get enough

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 4, 2023

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So I just finished reading Moon Called for the fourth time (first time on kindle) and each time I read it something new I missed before pops out to me. I own nearly every book in this series in paper or hardback and now on kindle. I love this series so much I also have all of the sub-series Alpha & Omega and I can't say enough how good both are other than I have every book at least twice if not more.

There are parts that hit very close to home for as much of the story can feel real for instance I am very familiar with the Tri-Cities, Missoula is and always shall be my stomping grounds, Portland and even Eugene are places I know well as are places in Idaho and Washington. Hell i used to live right outside Spokane so many of the location almost well mostly make this book feel very real to me. Which is another reason I would always recommend this series to anyone who loves the supernatural realms and modern fiction being blended as seamlessly as Patricia Briggs does.

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dncall

Excellent fantasy! Action, intrigue, a little romance

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 17, 2021

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MY RATING SYSTEM
5 stars--WOW
4 stars--would read again
3 stars--was good, won't read again
2 stars--read it, but didn't enjoy it
1 star--didn't finish, it was so awful

Do I need to read books before this one: no
Cliffhanger: no

SUMMARY
A boy approaches Mercy as she fixes cars in her shop, hoping to earn cash. Mercy smells he's a new werewolf, takes him on, will figure out how to get him to Adam, the alpha here who's also her neighbor. Her human police friend, Tony, stops by, sees Mac, and tells her he's seen Mac sound and he's not violent nor on drugs. Later, Mac confides he and his girlfriend were attacked in Chicago. He survived the Change, she didn't. He woke up in a cage, heard someone sell him, and had a variety of drugs tried on him. She goes back to the shop to bring Mac a blanket and finds him being threatened. Mercy shifts into her coyote form, kills the werewolf and scares off the human with a gun. She calls Adam, who takes Mac home to introduce him to the pack. She also calls Elizaveta, the witch the pack pays to do cleanup.

In the morning, Mercy's cat wants out. Mac is dead on her doorstep. She mourns, then hears noises at Adam's. She races over, kills another werewolf who's fighting Adam, and sees his 15yo daughter, Jesse, has been kidnapped. Worried about a coup to take Adam's leadership, Mercy can't call his pack, so she puts Mac's body and Adam in her van, then drives to Montana to the head alpha of North America, Bran. She'd been fostered in his pack, though she's a skinwalker, not a werewolf. She calls Zee, the gremlin who taught her everything about fixing cars and sold her his garage, to cover for her while she's gone and warn him about what happened. She also calls Stefan, her vampire friend, to explain she hauled a dead body in his van (painted like the Mystery Machine), though Elizaveta cleaned it.

In Montana, she shifts to hunt the hills for Bran. She finds Samuel, her old boyfriend she'd planned to marry until Bran interfered. Bran makes it clear Mercy is welcome home so the pack don't hurt her. Samuel, since he's a doctor, tends to Adam and will investigate Mac's body and the tranquilizer dart she'd found by Adam. In the morning, she reconnects with Dr Wallace, the human who'd helped her after her foster parents died; he's now a werewolf, but he won't hunt because he's a veterinarian and a vegetarian. Samuel returns to Kennewick with Adam and Mercy to keep Adam's wolf controlled until Adam is healed, and to investigate the attacks.

EVALUATION
Excellent story. Mercy's compassion for Mac drew me in; her being friends with a variety of supernaturals and humans intrigued me; and her snark made me laugh. Her character is well developed: her history includes loneliness, love, loss, fear, and self-acceptance; her present is developed through action and dialog rather than a lot of interior monolog. Other characters are introduced, though not as well developed, and I look forward to knowing them better. The plot starts simply, and keeps growing, not going where I expected.

RECOMMENDATION
Everyone who enjoys fantasy should read this.

FAVORITE QUOTES
There’s a lot of truth in the adage that all cars named after animals are lemons.

His voice was soft and sweet as molasses; but my mother once told me that you had to trust that the first thing out of a person’s mouth was truth. After they have a chance to think about it, they’ll change what they say to be more socially acceptable, something they think you’ll be happier with, something that will get the results they want.

“I don't like lies. Not even lies of omission. Hard truths can be dealt with, triumphed over, but lies will destroy your soul.”

“Living's easier than dying, most times. Dance when the moon sings, and don’t cry about troubles that haven’t yet come.”

“Happiness is German engineering, Italian cooking, and Belgian chocolate”

“Siebold Adelbert’s Smiter from the Black Forest,” I translated, using my required two years of a foreign language course for the first time ever.

For four years I banged out tunes for a half hour a day and hated the piano more each year. It hated me back.

Politics. Humans, werewolves, or, apparently, vampires, it doesn’t matter; get more than three of them together and the jockeying for power begins.

“I’ve always wanted to do that,” I confessed. “Maybe when this is all over, you can drive, and I’ll stick my head out the window.”

“Next to vinegar and baking soda, WD-40 is the miracle discovery of the age.”

“I’ve never heard you swear before. At least not like that.” “Power words. Without which mechanics the world over would be lost.”

POSSIBLE TRIGGERS (spoilers)
Sex: kisses
Language: 0 F words, 1 Lord's name in vain, 1 S words
Violence: animal maulings, threats, gun fights, drug experiments, report of suicide

CRITIQUE (spoilers)
I'm not clear how Clark died.

Is there a coup happening in the vampires?

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Lewis D. Medeiros

Coyotes and werewolves and vampires, oh my.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on November 23, 2017

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The first of the Mercy Thompson novels is quite an enjoyable introduction to Patricia Briggs's urban fantasy setting (although that term is semi-inappropriate for this story, as it takes place for the most part in what sounds like a suburban setting with a side order of mountain wilderness toward the middle). Told in the first person, this series follows the adventures of Mercedes Thompson ("Mercy" for short), who believes herself "no match for a werewolf" but has a tendency to prove herself capable of standing up to most of the dark things life throws at her from this book onward. A "walker," Mercy's magical superpower is the ability to shift into a coyote form, but what makes her interesting is the mundane set of talents and traits layered on top of that, many of which manifest her as one of a surprisingly small number of "strong, independent woman trope" characters who narratively make sure they earn that status in the eyes of the reader rather than just stepping up and assuming that a handful of vaguely defined positive strengths can carry a character arc. She's a tough character, but also tactful enough to maneuver around the troublesome dominance instincts of a werewolf to avoid angering them; she's independent in the most practical sense, by which I mean she runs and owns her own business and is good enough at what she does to be proud of that business. And while she may mentally acknowledge and occasionally acquiesce to the wishes of the protective Alpha males in her life, she never quite brings herself to give up sticking her nose in things and has the cunning, nerve, and deductive reasoning skills to stand out as a dark horse contributor to the adventures she takes part in. That Mercy is such a compelling character is important, because Mercy is what holds this series of books together. There is no single, continuous plot, there is only continuity and character development. The stories are largely self-contained within their own arcs apart from their building effect on the world in which Mercy lives and on her and the characters around her.

This first book, Moon Called, is a little bit shaky in some aspects. It has a strong beginning, and a strong latter half. But toward the middle it begins to meander a bit too much, focusing too much attention in too condensed a chunk of the book on "guy problems," by which I mean Mercy's guy problems and then, immediately after, the problems of her gay werewolf friend. None of this is bad, but it leaves the pacing feeling uneven and I couldn't help but think that, if there was going to be a protracted period of non-action so soon in the book, it should not have set such a tense, violence-soaked tone in the early portion of the book. And if it needed to do that, then the romantic tensions of the middle portion really ought to have been spread out and broken up by more plot-relevant events. Fortunately this book is short enough that the meandering middle didn't wear me out before the story got back to business, which is good. And maybe this portion of the book is just more popular with Briggs's intended demographic than I give it credit for. It's very obvious from the way Mercy narrates events that the story is being written with straight women who like chiseled muscles, alpha males, and romanticized "animal instinct" notions in their love stories, and I'm a straight 29-year-old GUY who likes athletic women with a bit of humor and attitude, while simulataneously finding "animal instinct" notions in love stories goddang annoying. So my perspective might be skewed. Although the "...but all these animal instincts are kind of a pain in everyone's butts" caveat undertone to the proceeding does tickle that latter tendency of mine too, which I guess is a sign of a darn good, well-rounded approach to that idea. So Patricia Briggs does deserve some props for catering to one demographic while not necessarily writing a story that would be repellant to all others.

Anyone coming into this series in the year 2017 might be thinking of the likes of Twilight and Fifty Shades of Grey when I talk about that kind of thing though, so rest assured: Patricia Briggs is a much, much, much much much better writer than Stephanie Meyer or E. L. James. Leagues better. The only writing issues I can pinpoint are the above-mentioned uneven pacing, occasional typos here and there that should have really been flagged and fixed during the editing process, and the character of Warren, who is defined too heavily on his introduction by his homosexuality to entirely become anything more by the end of this book than "Adam and Mercy's gay werewolf friend" and may not grow on readers until subsequent books as a result of that. The frustrating thing in that last one is that Mercy herself briefly relays an anecdote about something cool Warren did in the past that marked him as a hero and all around good guy in her eyes, but actually witnessing that event as a scene within the book's narrative rather than a vague summary of backstory would have established Warren so much more effectively and then the whole thing where Mercy meddled with his boyfriend would have just been... you know... character development, rather than the only thing we knew about the character for the majority of his "screen time."

Still, first novel in series, so some misteps are to be expected. Overall it was still very enjoyable. It never really elevated itself beyond the level of pulp fiction popcorn entertainment, but as those kinds of novels go, this is one of the good ones. It gets my wholehearted recommendation, and I'm already reading the second one as I write this.

Final note: formatting in both the Mass Market Paperback and the Kindle edition are largely identical and fine. Paperback's small but sturdy and feels pretty good in the hand, but is not built for antiquity. If you're looking to COLLECT physical copies of these books, find hardcovers.

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Walter J Critz

A different kind of shifter

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 9, 2023

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I got wrapped up in this story immediately and could not set it down until I had raced through to the end! The plot was thoroughly engrossing with lots of misdirection about who the bad guys really are, and the characters are believable - something hard to do in a book with shifters, vampires and witches! The main character is especially good - I like the differences presented in the book between her and other types of shifters. A great book!

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Kat

good read

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 13, 2023

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This book has been one that I have been meaning to read so I was glad to
get a digital copy. I love Mercy and her fierceness even as she tries to help
a young man as a threat seeks to do harm to others and have to ask help from
others who she once knew. I loved this book. Must read.

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S Payne

Not really for me I guess

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on June 10, 2022

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I had never read anything by Patricia Briggs before but the reviews looked great, I generally enjoy this type of book and wanted a quick read so I started reading.

Our main character is Mercy, a supernatural mechanic who just wants to keep her head down and get on with her life. When a teenage werewolf walks into her garage looking for work she finds herself pulled into situations she’d rather have avoided. We follow her journey and learn more about all the different supernatural characters she has in their life and the complicated way that they all exist alongside each other.

Based on all the great reviews, I had high hopes for this book so maybe that was why I was left so disappointed. This wasn’t a bad read actually, it was just really slow. We start off by learning a lot about Mercy and her life and just when we meet more characters and think it’ll get interesting…it just doesn’t. There is no real love action but there is a lot of action action. I found myself not really connecting with the characters and I know the first book is usually mostly world-building but there just wasn’t enough of anything else here to keep me reading the rest of the series.

Clare Tunilla

Quite slow burn

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on February 17, 2022

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This isn't the first series by this author I've read but that one is a spin off of this so here is me circling back to the OG. Mercy is strong, independent and surrounded by Alpha males. She seems to know where she stands but I feel like there's a lot more to her than she knows. It's not a romance (at least yet) and on that score it's slow burn as heck. It's otherwise quite action packed with the packs and Adam. I will be checking for the rest of this series for sure.

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Poetic Puppy

Very enjoyable

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on March 16, 2018

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Mercy is a supernatural mechanic who just wants to keep her head down and get on with her life. When a teenage werewolf walks into her garage looking for work however, she’ll soon find herself pulled into situations she’d rather have avoided.

I have to say I’ve not read this author before and was surprised to find myself attached to the characters so quickly. It’s probably for this reason that the death of one of the characters early on hit me quite hard. That moment was bitter sweet for me as I’ve not experienced that before. I could say that Mercy is your typical feisty female but she’s more than just that and I particularly love the way she handles Adam; her forms of revenge/rebellion are quite unique. Adam pretty much is your typical alpha male, but it’s his backstory that makes him stand out for me. I’m used to shifters having true mates, so it’s unusual to see a shifter that’s been in a relationship that was serious enough to produce a child. His daughter adds another element to the story and the character dynamics that I find interesting though, so that’s good. It’s the unique little twists that I look for in my favourite books and this one has a fair few of them; though if you’re expecting everything to be wrapped up in a neat little bow by the end of ‘Moon Called’ you’ll find yourself disappointed. Personally, I’m looking forward to discovering the reasons behind a certain picture in someone’s bedroom and the specifics behind a certain agreement, etc. in the subsequent novels.

Cautionary element(s): Contains a kidnapping and the threat of rape.

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An entrancing start to a fabulous series

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on September 22, 2021

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I think I must have borrowed this book the first time I read it, so I was delighted to get it to keep for my Kindle.
This is the start of the series and it draws us in from the start with intriguing glimpses of some of the characters who will be developed even more as the series progresses.
We dive straight in to see Mercy in action and find out about her world. I love that she meets the big bad wolf and ends up rescuing him from bad guys. Mercy knows her strengths and is humble enough to know her weaknesses and to ask for help when she needs it - though usually to help other people rather than herself.
Another strength of this world is that it's all about the shades of grey. We don't generally have villains and goodies; we have individuals trying to survive and thrive in a world which isn't always aware of their nature. This makes for much more interesting reading. Thank you Ms Briggs!

Bookworm 262

Brilliant start to the series

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on February 13, 2020

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First book in the excellent Mercy Thompson series. I first read this years ago and I have been reading the series ever since. I recently bought this version for my kindle as its a book I can reread.

It sets the scene of a world that holds more than just humans in it. As well as werewolves there are fae, vampires and even some native American creatures like Mercy who can change into a coyote. Most of these creatures stay hidden but many are in a race against modern technology that can uncover them at any time.

The fae chose to expose themselves and we get to see history repeating itself as they are marginalised and put onto reservations for their own safety. The time is coming soon for the werewolves to show themselves but of course there are always conflicts when this is suggested.

So we meet a whole cast of interesting characters including Mercy who is as crafty as her coyote alter ego. In any good book the ingredients include humour and tears and conflict and reconciliation. This book has it all and I loved it.

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