"Mercy can't sit by while her mentor is in jail for a crime he didn't commit."
Reviewed by Leanne Davis
Posted March 23, 2008
Fantasy Urban
Mercy Thompson lives in a world where the Native Americans
don't live on reservations but the fae or fairy do. When
her mentor, Zee calls on her for help, Mercy will don the
skin of the coyote and use her abilities to help identify a
killer. Zee takes Mercy to the reservation and takes her to the
homes of several fae that have been killed. The fae are
particular about who enter the reservation and what they
see while there. Mercy finds herself seeing things that
she shouldn't. Mercy is able to identify the killer. When Zee and his
friend Mike go to the home, they find the killer already
dead. The police had been called and find Zee there. Mercy is told by all the authorities of the fae that she
should give up the investigation. However, Mercy's loyalty
and belief in Zee make that impossible. Mercy will annoy many fae, the werewolves, and other groups
as her investigation into the killer's death leads her
closer to the truth that they wish to remain hidden. Thanks to her friends and the aid of some magical objects,
Mercy will manage to expose the real killer and obtain
Zee's release. This is the third in the series of Mercy Thompson and my
introduction to them. Since I'm not a big fan of
werewolves and shapeshifters, I was a little skeptical when
I started reading. As the story progressed, I found myself
engrossed in the story. There were no long, rambling,
unnecessary explanations of how and why to bore the
reader. Instead, the explanations were kept short and
succinct. The main focus in on the plot and the characters. The
author is able to place her unusual characters in a fairly
normal setting; making it probable that the situations
could exist in the readers world. The reader is able to
slip seamlessly into the world the author has built and
find it believable to be friends with werewolves, a
shapeshifter and to encounter the fae with regularity. Fans of urban fantasy should seek these books out and revel
in the stories.
SUMMARY
When her former boss and mentor is arrested for murder and
left to rot behind bars by his own kind, it's up to
shapeshifting car mechanic Mercy Thompson to clear his
name, whether he wants her to or not. And she'll have to
choose between the two werewolves in her life-whether she
wants to or not.
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