{"id":2774,"date":"2012-02-04T14:50:57","date_gmt":"2012-02-04T19:50:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/?p=2774"},"modified":"2026-02-02T19:39:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T00:39:08","slug":"river-marked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/2774","title":{"rendered":"River Marked"},"content":{"rendered":"

River Marked<\/a><\/em> (2011) Patricia Briggs<\/a><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Things are going well for Mercy–except for the fact that her mother is driving her absolutely crazy with details for her upcoming wedding, which drives Mercy to beg Adam to elope, before things get even more out of hand. But can the Alpha of the Columbia River basin really get away with eloping?<\/p>\n

OK, yeah, so there’s all this wedding\/marriage stuff, but what is really fabulous about this book is the finally Mercy gets to learn something about her past. She discovers she isn’t the only walker around (and even that those she meets disdain the term skinwalker, as a different type of creature all together).<\/p>\n

I love that we’re finally delving into the Native American mythos, and that (to me at least), it felt like she got it right. I really enjoyed the look at how Mercy became what and who she was.<\/p>\n

I also have to admit that I appreciate her complicated relationship with her mother.<\/p>\n

If you have not read the Mercy series, you should be able to read this book without much difficulty, but it will be much more rewarding to start at the first book and move your way forward to here.<\/p>\n

Regarding the cover: I don’t dislike the covers in this series–in fact, I tend to like that they mostly seem to get Mercy right, unfortunately, I can’t stand the outfit she’s wearing and after the cover of Faith Hunter<\/a>‘s Raven Cursed<\/a><\/em>, this just falls way short. Mind you, it’s still better than lots of other stuff out there, but this is not portraying Mercy as a strong independent woman. So: please try harder Ace.
\nRating: 8.5\/10<\/strong><\/p>\n

Published by Ace<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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