{"id":5503,"date":"2015-11-15T15:56:00","date_gmt":"2015-11-15T20:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/?p=5503"},"modified":"2021-09-22T17:36:04","modified_gmt":"2021-09-22T21:36:04","slug":"mercy-thompson-hopcross-jilly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/5503","title":{"rendered":"Mercy Thompson: Hopcross Jilly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/klishis.com\/Books\/comics\/mercy_thompson.php\">Mercy Thompson<\/a>: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1606906682\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=390957&#038;creativeASIN=1606906682&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=randomreading-20&#038;linkId=XQXU32N2UC3DDMP4\">Hopcross Jilly<\/a><\/em> (2015) <a href=\"http:\/\/klishis.com\/Books\/authors\/briggsp.php\">Patricia Briggs<\/a> and Tom Garcia<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1606906682\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=1606906682&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=randomreading-20&amp;linkId=XQXU32N2UC3DDMP4\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Mercy-Thompson-Hopcross-Jilly.jpg?resize=200%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Mercy-Thompson-Hopcross-Jilly\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5504\" \/><\/a>I&#8217;m a huge fan of the Mercy Thompson series, and also love Patricia Briggs&#8217; short stories, so although I didn&#8217;t love the first Mercy Thompson graphic novel I read, I got this because I do like her short stories.<\/p>\n<p>This story puts a great deal of focus on Jesse&#8211;Adam&#8217;s daughter who goes to the local high school. I like Jesse, but I don&#8217;t love spending any time in high school, which is where much of this story takes place.<\/p>\n<p>The other thread of the story involves the Pack finding bodies&#8211;bodies that turn out to be older children and teenagers.<\/p>\n<p>I still don&#8217;t much care for the way Mercy and Adam are drawn (and especially Zee, who looks ridiculous), but I thought they did a good job with Jesse, and I did enjoy the story.<br \/>\n<strong>Rating: 7\/10<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Published by Dynamite<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mercy Thompson: Hopcross Jilly (2015) Patricia Briggs and Tom Garcia I&#8217;m a huge fan of the Mercy Thompson series, and also love Patricia Briggs&#8217; short stories, so although I didn&#8217;t love the first Mercy Thompson graphic novel I read, I got this because I do like her short stories. This story puts a great deal [&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":false,"_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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,48,9,291,16],"tags":[69,68,525],"class_list":["post-5503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fantasy","category-female","category-graphic-novels","category-paper","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-1qL","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5867,"url":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/5867","url_meta":{"origin":5503,"position":0},"title":"Shifting Shadows: Stories from the World of Mercy Thompson","author":"Michelle","date":"May 22, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Shifting Shadows: Stories from the World of Mercy Thompson (2014) Patricia Briggs Interspersed with the novels, I read the short stories in Shifting Shadows. 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It's fun to spend time with characters I enjoy in a medium other than I'm used to, and\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Fantasy&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Fantasy","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/category\/fantasy"},"img":{"alt_text":"mercy_homecoming","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/mercy_homecoming.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":10870,"url":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/10870","url_meta":{"origin":5503,"position":2},"title":"Shifting Shadows: Stories from the World of Mercy Thompson, Audio Book","author":"Michelle","date":"May 23, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Shifting Shadows: Stories from the World of Mercy Thompson, Audio Version (2014) Patricia Briggs narrated by Alexander Cendese and Lorelei King Flailing around for something to listen to, I decided that I'd listen to the Patricia Briggs short story collection and then go from there. This collection has very few\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;9\/10&quot;","block_context":{"text":"9\/10","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/category\/9-10"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Shifting-Shadows-e1511034985417.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":6302,"url":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/6302","url_meta":{"origin":5503,"position":3},"title":"Shifting Shadows: Stories from the World of Mercy Thompson","author":"Michelle","date":"December 27, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Shifting Shadows: Stories from the World of Mercy Thompson (2014) Patricia Briggs I really do like this short story collection. Pleasingly, Patricia Briggs is good with short stories, which makes this collection all the more enjoyable. 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