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8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Well Done, Jun 16 2006
I absolutly love vampire and werewolf novels, and comming across something as interestingly new to the genre as "Moon Called" was a treat.
The world of make believe: fairies, goblins, gremlins and the like, are all real. Only the older and more powerful species, such as vampires and werewolves, still remain hidden.
A young cyote-shapeshifter, who's life is connected deeply to the world of the two hidden super-races, is soon involved in a murder mystery that could change the shape of the world!
I recommend this book to any who enjoy either the werewolf or vampire genres of writing, or to any who just love present day folk-lor come to life.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Great read!, Jul 22 2009
Moon Called is the first book the Mercy Thompson series and presents us a world of shape shifters, feys, vampires and likes.
Mercedes "Mercy" Thompson doesn't really fit in any category: she's a walker. Walkers are an almost disappeared species originating in north America along with the natives. They were known to hunt vampires when they first came in America, and vampires would return the favor. Mercy shape-shift into a coyote and isn't controlled by the moon. She was raised by a foster family in a werewolf community and her difference didn't make it easy.
She's now a mechanic specializing in German vehicles, owns the garage and is happy to mind her own business. Life is about to get spicier when a young werewolf shows up on her door steps looking for a job.
The world is very well built, lesser feys came out of the closest due to science progress, but superior feys, witches, vampires and werewolves are still hidden. They live in a very structured system: Wolves lives in packs ruled by the strongest Alpha, Vampires runs the economy taxing other supernatural beings and Witches gets their profit magically hiding all these activities. The balance is at stake tho with increasing advances in technology and forensic investigations and trouble is around the corner.
Briggs' suspense and conspiracies are very well written and we are left hanging until the very end.
I give the book a 8/10, Really liked Mercy with her strength and struggles, the males in the story are great to, gotta expect some macho and testosterone filled discussions among them. I am ordering the following books for sure.
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6 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
One of Brigg's best work to date, Mar 19 2006
Thoroughly enjoyable! It has bits of everything, witches, vampires, werewolves, fae, ect. Mercy, the main character, is full of spunk and attitude. You cannot help but cheer her on with her various dealings with packs. There's talk of a sequel and I cannot wait!
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