{"id":5864,"date":"2016-05-15T20:47:36","date_gmt":"2016-05-16T00:47:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/?p=5864"},"modified":"2026-03-22T10:39:29","modified_gmt":"2026-03-22T14:39:29","slug":"dead-heat-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/5864","title":{"rendered":"Dead Heat"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dead Heat<\/a><\/em> (2015) Patricia Briggs<\/a><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>The fourth Alpha & Omega book occurs before Night Broken<\/em>. Charles takes Anna out to Colorado to meet an old friend.<\/p>\n

\u201cReally?\u201d said Joseph tentatively. \u201cYou don\u2019t remember?\u201d \u201cSomeone asked me not to,\u201d said Charles. \u201cAnd I told him I would oblige him. So no. I don\u2019t remember.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And to buy a horse for her.<\/p>\n

The Arabians might not suit you; they don\u2019t suit everyone. They are like cats: vain, beautiful, and intelligent. But you deal well enough with Asil, who is also vain, beautiful, and intelligent.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

They almost immediately become entangled with events surrounding a loose Fae who murders children. (Just so you know from the get-go: dead children here.)<\/p>\n

There are also live and amusing kids.<\/p>\n

\u201cShut your piehole, punk kid,\u201d Max said, thumping her on the head with the palm of his hand. <\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m telling Mama you said \u2018Shut your piehole,\u2019\u201d Michael said. \u201c\u2018 Shut your piehole\u2019 is a bad word.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201c\u2018 Shut your piehole\u2019 is three words, Michael,\u201d said Mackie. <\/p>\n

Undaunted, Michael said, \u201cI\u2019m telling Mama you used three bad words.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Interestingly, perhaps because Charles is one of the main characters, there are again bits about aging and dying.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn the old days they\u2019d have kissed my cheek and then left me in the desert to die. Then my family would hire some Hopi or white man too stupid to know the dangers of handling the dead to go deal with the body. Now we\u2019re caught between modern ways and the old. If I die here, only fire will keep my evil ghost from making everyone miserable, and they are too rational to do that.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And some other bits thrown in.<\/p>\n

He was twelve when he told us he liked boys instead of girls. That was right after some friend of his got kicked out of his home for doing the same. Stupid people tossing away the most precious thing God saw fit to give them, I say.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u201cTake the question every husband dreads.\u201d Leeds looked at the fae and then back at Leslie. \u201cYou know, the one about if pants make you look fat. A fae could say \u2018No,\u2019 which you would take to mean that you don\u2019t look fat, when in fact he means \u2018The pants don\u2019t make you look fat, your extra weight makes you look fat.\u2019\u201d Leeds cleared his throat and a flush rose up his face. \u201cNot that you do look fat. It was just an example.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Dead Heat (2015) Patricia Briggs The fourth Alpha & Omega book occurs before Night Broken. Charles takes Anna out to Colorado to meet an old friend. \u201cReally?\u201d said Joseph tentatively. \u201cYou don\u2019t remember?\u201d \u201cSomeone asked me not to,\u201d said Charles. \u201cAnd I told him I would oblige him. So no. I don\u2019t remember.\u201d And to […]<\/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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,48,291,41,16,934],"tags":[70,50,737,68,212,655,525],"class_list":["post-5864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fantasy","category-female","category-paper","category-reread","category-supernatural","category-trigger-warnings","tag-alpha-omega","tag-boinking","tag-ghosts","tag-patricia-briggs","tag-ptsd","tag-violence","tag-werewolves"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piQkW-1wA","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":25862,"url":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/25862","url_meta":{"origin":5864,"position":0},"title":"Dead Heat","author":"Michelle","date":"February 23, 2026","format":false,"excerpt":"Dead Heat (2015) Patricia Briggs (Alpha & Omega #4) The Arabians might not suit you; they don\u2019t suit everyone. 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