Silver Borne

Silver Borne (2010) Patricia Briggs

Book 5 finds the Fae wanting an item back from Mercy–except that she’s not certain just what is is they want back, and also finds the pack using those bonds against Mercy.

I stumbled back away from the truck, shaking and sweating in the night air, the fae stick in one hand like a cudgel or a sword that could protect me from . . . being stupid. Stupid. Stupid.

Because they are unhappy to find a coyote in their midst (and a the head of the pack). It also finds Samuel tired of living, and that is a very interesting plot line.

“What have you done with Samuel? Is he all right?”

Pale ice blue eyes examined me thoughtfully.

“Samuel? I’m pretty certain he’d forgotten I could do this: it has been so long since we battled for control. He let me out to play when he chose, and I left it to him.” He was quiet a moment or two, then he said, almost shyly. “You know when I’m here. You call me Sam.”

And, in a thread that lasts for several books, Mercy causes Gabriel to have a falling out with his mother.

“She wasn’t happy about Heart pointing a gun at Maia,” I told him. “But I think she was madder at me than Heart. He didn’t bring in a werewolf for her kids to play with.”

His face went police-officer blank. “What?”

“Yeah,” I said. “I don’t think she’ll be coming here to get her car fixed anymore. Gabriel’s not coming back either.”

“You did what?”

“Cut it out,” growled Adam. He gestured at Sam. “This wolf would never harm a hair on a child’s head, and Mercy knew it.”

And we also see Ben’s continued growth. I really like Ben, and enjoy his (very slow) rehabilitation.

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