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Moon Called

Written by Patricia Briggs

Narrated by Lorelei King

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Mercy Thompson's life is not exactly normal. Her next-door neighbor is a werewolf. Her former boss is a gremlin. And she's fixing a VW bus for a vampire. But then, Mercy isn't exactly normal herself.

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Release dateSep 1, 2009
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Moon Called
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Patricia Briggs

#1 New York Times bestselling author Patricia Briggs lives in Washington State with her husband, children, and a small herd of horses.

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  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    This book was very interesting and a fun read. It's a totally different take on shapeshifter/werewolves I enjoyed Mercy and her coyote form.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    This review first appeared on A Weebish Book Blog.MOON CALLED was my October TBR list read. I know, I know, I am so late to posting my review but, hey, better late than never, right? MOON CALLED is the first book in Patricia Brigg’s famous Mercy Thompson series. As a UF junkie, I’ve been itching to start this series for years and I’m relieved to announce taking the plunge was totally worth it.Mercedes Thompson aka “Mercy” is a walker, a rare supernatural species with the ability to shift into a coyote at will. She lives next door an Alpha werewolf, her former boss is Fae, and she occasionally works on automobiles for vampires. While Tri-Cities, Washington is crawling with the supernatural, Mercy has spent much of her life on the outskirts looking in, but all that changes when her connection to paranormal forces comes at a dangerous cost.MOON CALLED has a very “first book in a lengthy UF series” feel. There’s plenty of action, conflict, and a romance subplot with little importance to keep the novel intriguing, but a large portion of the novel is dedicated to familiarizing readers with the world of Mercy Thompson. I’m not complaining, though. Stories of alternative reality necessitate lengthy world building and Briggs does a superb job.Speaking of romance, y’all may not be aware how much I dislike a love triangle, but they have been frustratingly overly dramtic and typically, I just can’t stand them! Unfortunately, I seem to be drawn to books that feature them. MOON CALLED was one such novel. A romance between Mercy and old flame Samuel, son of the head Marrok (think werewolf king) of US werewolf packs, and Adam Hauptman, next door neighbor and Alpha of the local pack is introduced in this book.I am firmly on Team Adam but Mercy is determined to stay away from wolfy SOs. I can certainly understand her reticence since they’re both rather overprotective and clingy. Unfortunately for Mercy, pheromones and sexual tension is so hard to annoy (and very entertaining for me). So far the love triangle is not the major conflict of the Mercy Thompson series and the drama isn’t overwhelming. What I’m trying to say is the triangle works for me at the moment, but I’ll keep y’all updated on my frustration level as the series moves along.All-in-all, MOON CALLED was a wonderful urban fantasy adventure and has me drooling for more from Mercy Thompson. I’d recommend it to fans of urban fantasy series such as Kate Daniels and the Weird Girls series.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    [Cross posted to Knite Writes]I’ve known about Patricia Briggs for a while now, and seeing as I’m on a mission to expand my urban fantasy reads beyond The Dresden Files, I decided to pick up the first two books in this series the last time I stopped by B&N. Unfortunately, I realized too late that, like a lot of urban fantasy authors with fairly long series, Briggs doesn’t really hit her stride in the first book.My biggest problem with this book was the plot — it was chugging along perfectly fine for a while, and then, in the last third, it suddenly took a turn for the ridiculously convoluted. Literally, characters sat down in a living room and starting throwing out incredibly far-reaching conclusions based on very little information that painted an incredibly confusing, hard-to-follow, picture of the sources of conflict in the novel. There was a point where my eyes glazed over…and I basically stopped reading. Right there. I skimmed quickly through the remaining 40 pages or so just to get an idea of what happened to the major characters.It was all very unfortunate. But it happens.As for other aspects of the book…The characters — there were quite a few characters in this book, and some of them were fairly well characterized while others leaned a bit flat despite their relative importance to the plot. Mercy makes for a decent protagonist with a fairly rich backstory that plays well into the plot of the book, but a lot of the characters, like Adam and Samuel, are lacking in development throughout.The world-building — was okay. I think the supernatural world could have been fleshed out more and more evenly. One of my issues was that world-building concepts weren’t introduced or even hinted at until they became 100% relevant to the plot. Which is a mistake because, when you do it over and over, it starts to feel like you’re just making it up as you go along, inserting whatever concepts are convenient for the plot. You need to build your world more organically.All in all, this book has some interesting characters and plot points to offer, but it fell pretty short in several regards, not the least of which was the ending.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    Took a break from my writer's block/procrastination books to curl up with an urban fantasy. Patricia Briggs's Moon Called had been highly recommended to me, and since I have a fetish for werewolves, I couldn't help but check it out. It's a good book. Fast, super-smooth read, and even though werewolves are beyond common in urban fantasy these days, I was pleased to see that Briggs's weres differed greatly (aside from the pack dynamics that dominate nearly EVERY werewolf book I've read) from Vaughn's and Armstrong's.The main character, Mercy Thompson, isn't a werewolf. She's a walker (derived from skinwalker) and can shape-shift into coyote form. She's one of the last of her kind and she doesn't know what it means to be a walker and why she's seen as such a threat to the rest of the supernatural community. But she also doesn't care. She minds her own business until a newly-Changed werewolf comes to her shop for help, and by helping him, she finds herself in the middle of something much, much bigger.And did I mention that Mercy's an auto-mechanic? Because she is, and that's beyond awesome.Also note that there's .01% of paranormal romance in this book. The tale focuses on Mercy and her friends, and obviously, the plot itself and the mystery. Like I said, it's a good read.The full review is in my LJ if anyone's interested. As always, comments and discussion are most welcome.REVIEW: Patricia Briggs's MOON CALLEDHappy Reading!
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    The first time I picked up this book in 2009, I wasn’t expecting to love it so much. I grabbed it on a recommendation from an ex boyfriend, and wasn’t too sure that I would like it as much as he raved that I would.
    I can say 3 years later that I love it now just as much as I did the first time I read it. Mercy is a great heroine. She goes against the grain of everything that you normally see with female lead characters and it really works in these books. She never really is the damsel in distress that you except her to be, even when she is hunting down murders and kidnappers.
    I love how the supporting characters are introduced, and how they only add to my love of the series. Jesse is a great addition to the book even though she is human. The tension between Adam and Mercy is great and you can almost feel what she feels around him.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    I really enjoyed the book, it was the first book in the series so there was a lot of setting up but I found the world interesting. There wasn't sex in it so it is also one I can share with my 13 year old, which is a big deal to me. Hard to find GOOD books without some sex in them these days. Mercy is pulled into some wolf pack issues and helps figure out the conclusion. There is obviously something very special about her and her instincts that I do not think we will find out about right away.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Good Series, fun read
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    My reaction to this book is probably conditioned by being a little jaded at this point in regards to urban fantasy as an analogy for the coming out of subcultures that had previously been granted pariah status at best, though Briggs gets points for beginning this story early in the process. Tolerance for those magical beings who have come out in Briggs' universe can be best described as tokenism. Still, while Briggs seems to have been shooting for a matter-of-fact, work-a-day tone I'm not sure that she didn't fall a bit flat. My overall impression is that I'd try the next book in the series, but there are other authors I'd rather read right now.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    This one started out slow for me, although reliable friends recommended it to me so I wan't too worried I wouldn't love it. The story really kicked in for me once they hit Montana and I was hooked from there. I like Mercy - she's got enough humour about her to keep the whole thing from feeling too dark. Adam is exactly what Adam should be! :D Zee is fun and Stephan is, again, what he should be. So a great cast of characters you can get involved with.

    The plot itself was delightfully labyrinthian - not so complex you couldn't follow it, but complex enough to keep you guessing right up until the very end, when even the bad guys were somewhat sympathetic.

    I'm not yet ready to add this series to my top 5 list, but I'll definitely be reading the next book as soon as possible.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    An awesome series that I give an enthusiastic two thumbs up!!! Not only a great concept but also well written which isn't always the case with the genre.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    This book was a little hard to get in to. Once I got past the first 75 pages, I found it rather enjoyable. It was a good set-up for what looks to be a decent series. There is no romance in the book, but the action and plot was well though out. Looking forward to the next book.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    This book was a fun read. It pains me to bring up Twilight, but it's an obvious point to compare it to. This was everything Twilight should have been, written concurrently and published a couple of months after Twilight.

    Unfortunately, the magic system was soft, or at least not well enough explained to make it feel rigid and structured. As Abinadi says, Brandon Sanderson ruined books for me.

    Definitely enjoyed the action, and especially the werewolf mythology. Didn't enjoy the sexism. Why are so many science fiction and fantasy books sexist or misogynistic?

    This book was marketed horribly. The front cover? What's up with that? Is this some weird skeezy romance novel? Then the back cover starts by reading, "Mercy Thompson's sexy next-door neighbor is a werewolf." If I'd had that and the cover to go on alone, I would never have read this. Seriously, Ace Books, get your stuff together. For shame.

    Lastly, I enjoyed that the protagonist was a strong female character that acted for herself and didn't spend the book needing to be rescued.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    A kick butt start to an awesome new series! Patricia Briggs has a fast and furious writing style. This is a shorter book than some might be used to but there isn't a word wasted and a not a moment I didn't enjoy.

    There is a lot of urban fantasy out there these days and I believe this by far is some of the best executed beginnings of a series I've read to date. The details for a rich world of 'Other' within our own mundane world are delivered so well that they aren't overwhelming. There is nothing worse than when an author does an information dump on the reader - and while Briggs gives you a lot of info it never feels as if it's too much.

    Mercy is a great lead, a character that you can really get behind and get attached to. She's tuff but vulnerable and sassy as hell. I highly recommend this series to any urban fantasy fans that have a taste for werewolves, shapeshifters, vampires and few.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    Mercy is my absolute favorite urban fantasy protagonist.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Totally not what I expected based on the description and cover art -- but in a good way. The narrator isn't at all like the trendy urban chick depicted on the cover for this and the subsequent sequels. She's much more real, down to earth, and likeable, even if she does have the rather unlikely ability to shift into a coyote! Her world is populated with some familiar fantasy creatures, but they're made more interesting by also being (mostly) human in a recognizably human world. Not literary by any means, but pretty compelling and enjoyable to listen to. (Listened to audiobook version.)
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Mercedes Thompson is a walker, a descendant of Native Americans and has the ability to turn into a coyote and detect magic and block it. She gets drawn into a fight with werewolves because of her neighbor. Turns out she helps out a lot and practically saves the day, and only sustains mild injuries.

    This book was so much like the first couple of Laurell K. Hamilton's Anita Blake books, it has the same tone and sort of the same concept, but different...lets just hope she doesn't turn the series into nothing more than completely gratuitous sex scenes in book form. I liked the tension between Mercy and the local werewolf alpha, Adam. I like the whole idea of the story but it felt a bit like something was missing as well, although, I can't quite place what. Mercy is a strong female lead and I liked that as well. We will see what the rest of the series has in store.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    It felt so good to return to the world that Patricia Briggs has created. To see new characters and revisit ones I knew before. The story was eventful and at times intense but I had trouble putting it down for long. Not quite sure why it wasn't a five star book but it was very close. I love Mercy, spunky and brave she calls to my inner self and says 'hey, it's not easy' and I think it's referring to being strong and brave. The male characters are rather methodical and overbearing but that has its appeal as well. Sam? Or Adam? I don't know who I'd choose, I find them both quite appealing. Alpha's can be downright sexy. She has a hard choice ahead of her.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    I love it when I can read a book for a second time and enjoy even more than the first time. There are a few book worlds that I hate to leave and Mercy's world is one of them. When I finished reading Fire Touched recently, I wanted more Mercy so I decided it was time to listen to some of the audiobooks from this series that have been sitting in my audible account for a couple of years. I was surprised by how much more I liked it this time around.This is the first book in the Mercy Thompson series and it does a really good job of introducing a large number of the key players in the series. This book is one of the really great first books in an urban fiction series. All of the world building works nicely into the plot. The book opens with a lot of excitement and you just kind of learn how things work as the plot moves forward. I loved going back to spend time with an earlier Mercy. She is such a wonderful character. She is extremely brave in this story despite being fully aware of her limitations. She is smart and able to make good decisions under pressure. She really shows a protective side in this story with both Mac and Jesse which I really liked. It was really fun spending time with Adam, Samuel, Bran, Zee, Stephen, Jesse, Warren, and the rest of gang in this book.The mystery in this book was solid. When a young werewolf ends up in Mercy's garage, she quickly learns that some strange things are happening. Adam is quickly pulled into the mystery and is actually quite vulnerable during much of this book. Mercy and the werewolves must find out what is going on and what their motives are in order to keep everyone safe. I really liked seeing how many things from later in the series were foreshadowed in this book. There were so many things that I didn't pick up on during my first reading.It took me a few minutes to adjust to the narration of this audiobook. Don't get me wrong, I thought the narration was great in the end but Mercy is a character that I have been reading about for years so I had a preconceived notion about what her voice should sound like. The narrator didn't match the voice in my head at the beginning of the story but by the end her voice was Mercy's. I think that the narrator did a fabulous job with all of the different character voices. I really enjoyed how much emotion came across in her reading of the story. I definitely plan to listen to more audiobooks featuring Lorelei King's narration.I would highly recommend this book and series to fans of urban fiction. The Mercy Thompson series along with the Alpha & Omega series which is set in the same world are among my favorites. This is a series that is best read in order so this book is a great starting point. I am looking forward to re-reading the second book in the series very soon.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    This has been on my to read list for years and finally got hold of it from the library. Loved it, wanted more and found that I didn't actually have the next book :( Currently waiting impatiently for it from the library :P
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Loved the flow of this book. Mercy tries to help a young man who recently went through the "change" and things get out of hand. She's forced to seek help from her neighbor (and pack alpha) Adam. Things are far from resolved and soon she uncovers a conspiracy that takes her to various factions in search of answers. It's been my experience that many first-in-series tend to be info dumps. Not this one. It kept my attention from cover to cover. The author shows us Mercy Thompson and her world as the story progresses.

    Mercy is a great character, strong, smart, but still a woman with tender emotions. I love it when a writer "gets" that women can be uber-heroines and still cry when they're alone out of grief, or even frustration. Adam was a great character, but I also liked the chemistry she had with Sam and wonder what the future holds.

    Great book! I thoroughly enjoyed reading it. The story was tight, the writing crisp and to the point, and it was full of interesting characters that I want to know more about! Lots of action and adventure with magic and mystery thrown in the mix.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Really good, can't wait to read the next one :)
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    I am addicted to this paranormal shapeshifter/werewolf series.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    Mercy (Mercedes) Thompson is a top-notch VW mechanic, shoots a .444 Marlin, casts her own silver bullets and trains at the local dojo. And, yeah, she's a shapeshifter. Not the werewolf kind, though: she's a "walker", a Native American shifter who can turn into a coyote between one heartbeat and the next. It spices things up to have Adam, the handsome Alpha of the local werewolf pack, as a neighbor. When Mac, teen werewolf, wanders into Mercy's repair shop asking for a job, she realizes the boy's in trouble and decides to help him. That's about when all hell breaks loose..."Moon Called" has, first and foremost, great characters. The world building is intriguing, presenting its own unique twists of the paranormal -- especially regarding werewolf society/politics.However, I felt that the plot meandered too much in the second half of the book, and as we neared the climax, things slowed down instead of speeding up. To my tastes, the motivation of the main baddie was too tangled to be believable.In spite of the book not being perfect (and what is?), I enjoyed it very, very much, and heartily recommend it!
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Fun book. The idea of a coyote shifter as the main character was a good one. She isn't so much a shifter as a Walker. Intriguing idea that hasn't been done and over done. My favorite part is that her symbol of her Christian faith is not a cross or crucifix but a lamb. They made fun of it but as we all know a symbol of faith is personal and if you believe then it can be stronger than the evil turned toward you.

    recommend you get a bunch of this series because you will want to keep reading after the first.
  • Rating: 1 out of 5 stars
    1/5
    Moon Called is for me a humiliating book. I was at a loss for much of the story, I have to admit that. Reading on a kindle makes it difficult to track back to recheck who was what. To think that many stupid housewives or vacuous teenagers would have had no problem navigating this book does nothing for my self esteem. But despite all of this, I have understood enough to consider this book a bad egg. The writing was minimal and I was desperate to discover a series of Urban Fantasy books that would make choosing books later a pleasant headache. That, I see now, hasn't happened. The alarm bells began tolling when a romantic subplot dropped in the middle of a brewing event of intrigue and betrayal. I often don't like romance, except when done to my liking, that is with restraint. Lack of restraint wasn't the problem here. It was just that the romance bit was ill worded. Earlier there was a sudden murder of a young character and the author failed to cash it in and make it count. She simply doesn't have the skill to play with her readers' emotions. She tried, to dismal effect. The author also tried to make the book kid friendly. By making this decision, she defused all tension from her book. The kidnapping was just an event which foreshadowed a merry rescue mission. There was no question about the kidnapped being dead. The entire vampire section was ludicrous, with no sense and logic at all. This part merits its own paragraph but I don't want to waste more time on this fiasco. I now know, for certain, that high rating counts for naught on this site. Every single book in this series is above 4.00. Is this unfair? Perhaps not. Perhaps one needs to take into consideration the targeted audience's need for this type of fare. But I cannot shake the impression that this high score is clunkiness in suavity's clothing. I'm a bit warier, a bit disillusioned, but also wiser. I should have abandoned this book when I began to have my doubts. Never regret.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    I was frankly surprised that the characters were so engaging. Briggs steps away from the mold and allows her beings to have real character and personal problems, hobbies and quirks. A vampire restoring an old VW bus? That's great! I'll be reading more of the books to visit with the gremlin, Zee and the werewolf, Warren and his boyfriend Kyle.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    Mildly interesting worldbuilding but stereotypical gender roles and even though the plot twists around the end is predictable and pretty standard... And the snippets for the following books promise no better!
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    Mercy Thompson is an foreign auto mechanic, a true friend and also a skinwalker. In this, the first book of the Mercy Thompson series we are introduced to Mercy and her friends and enemies as she helps stop a werewolf uprising and fix cars.To me when I read books of this type I look to and judge them by the books written by Kelley Armstrong in her otherworld series and I am happy to say this these books belong next to hers in someone's library.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    I have decided that 2014 is going to be the year where I branch out and try genres that I haven't read much before. I haven't read any urban fantasy books, at least that I can remember off the top of my head, and had heard good things about this book and series so I decided that this would be a good urban fantasy book to start off with.Being so new to UF I was a little confused at first with some things mentioned about fae and werewolves. I think that was more on me than the book, but the more I read the book the clearer things became for me. I never thought I would be interested in a book about werewolves but boy did I become hooked in this book. I really loved all the action with the werewolves. I was a little too into it as I would start yelling and then would get stared at as though I was insane. I'm not insane, this book is insanely good.I really liked following Mercy from the beginning. I like that she is a strong female character. She has such an interesting past and I loved reading about it. I am curious to see where her relationships with Adam and Samuel go. I was really glad that this quasi love triangle didn't take over the plot line.I am really looking forward to reading more of this series (I am on the waiting list for the next one) and other books by Patricia Briggs. I would recommend this book even if this genre isn't your favorite.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    People kept telling me to read this book. I am so glad I did. I couldn't put it down. I really enjoyed the story and the location. It kinda reads like a soap opera without the whinny lead character. In fact Mercy just plain kicks but. Can't wait to read the rest!