{"id":4871,"date":"2014-10-06T18:05:16","date_gmt":"2014-10-06T22:05:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/?p=4871"},"modified":"2021-09-22T17:36:05","modified_gmt":"2021-09-22T21:36:05","slug":"river-marked-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/4871","title":{"rendered":"River Marked"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B0049U4IZK\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=390957&#038;creativeASIN=B0049U4IZK&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=randomreading-20&#038;linkId=RZ6ATAZOTYM7AYSP\">River Marked<\/a><\/em> (2011) <a href=\"http:\/\/klishis.com\/Books\/authors\/briggsp.php\">Patricia Briggs<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2irFXwy\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/rivermarked.jpg?resize=200%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5850\" \/><\/a>Although Mercy and Adam are supposed to be on their Honeymoon, unexpected gifts from the fae lead to (when dealing with fae anyway) the expected consequences, of danger and threat.<\/p>\n<p>But more importantly, we learn more about Mercy&#8217;s father, and finally meet Coyote (THE Coyote). <\/p>\n<p>Figures that are both tricksters and are likable can be tricky. If the Trickster figure is TOO nice, then they aren&#8217;t really a trickster, but if they can also cross the line into being complete assholes. <\/p>\n<p>Published by Ace<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>River Marked (2011) Patricia Briggs Although Mercy and Adam are supposed to be on their Honeymoon, unexpected gifts from the fae lead to (when dealing with fae anyway) the expected consequences, of danger and threat. But more importantly, we learn more about Mercy&#8217;s father, and finally meet Coyote (THE Coyote). Figures that are both tricksters [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,291,41,16],"tags":[69,68,525],"class_list":["post-4871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fantasy","category-paper","category-reread","category-supernatural","tag-mercy-thompson","tag-patricia-briggs","tag-werewolves"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piQkW-1gz","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5849,"url":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/5849","url_meta":{"origin":4871,"position":0},"title":"River Marked","author":"Michelle","date":"May 15, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"River Marked (2011) Patricia Briggs Book 6 is Mercy's wedding to Adam, and further problems with the Fae and other supernatural creatures. 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