For instance, after she shares the details of her vision quest involving confrontation with Coyote from years ago with Adam, he asks her if she knows what it meant: I think we see more of how this affects her and how she doesn’t quite feel like she belongs anywhere in this novel, but it also doesn’t become driven by overpowering angst since Mercy isn’t the type to dwell on her problems or feel sorry for herself. In this novel, Mercy meets some other Native Americans and also has to come to terms with her mixed origins. What makes this particular installment so wonderful is that Mercy finally learns more about her Native American heritage and her shapeshifting ability. She and the other characters have such wonderful relationships that come alive through their conversations – and are constantly enhanced by a great sense of humor. In spite of that, I was never bored by it because I enjoyed spending time with Mercy and reading her conversations with other characters. It takes a while to get to the main plot since it spends some time on the wedding and then just showing Mercy and Adam together before revealing that all is not right in the woods. It’s different because most of the regular characters are only present at the beginning and the end and most of the book takes place in the wilderness when Adam and Mercy are just trying to enjoy their honeymoon.
Briggs adeptly handles both plot and character development in this series and combines common myths in an interesting way.Īlthough River Marked is a little different from the previous books, it’s now one of my personal favorites in the Mercy Thompson series, right behind Iron Kissed. Mercy is also my favorite urban fantasy character because she is so reasonable and practical, yet she also has a sense of humor and lots of personality. This is a series I highly recommend – it’s one of my three favorite urban fantasy series and the first one I really got hooked on back when I was a bit skeptical about how much I’d like the genre. If you haven’t read any of the books yet, here’s my review of the first book. Since this is six books into the series, there will be spoilers for the first five books in this review. Briggs also writes a related series with different main characters, Alpha and Omega, that will contain three books with the release of Fair Game next month. The next book is supposed to be released in spring 2013. The previous books are in order as follows: Moon Called, Blood Bound, Iron Kissed, Bone Crossed, and Silver Borne. River Marked is the sixth book in the popular Mercy Thompson series by Patricia Briggs.
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