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Bone Crossed (Mercy Thompson, Book 4) [Hardcover]

Patricia Briggs
4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (317 customer reviews)


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February 3, 2009

View our feature on Patricia Briggs’s Bone Crossed.

Shapeshifter Mercy Thompson hit the #1 spot on the bestseller list with Iron Kissed...

And she's planning a return trip.

Marsilia, the local vampire queen, has learned that Mercy crossed her by slaying a member of her clan. Now, she's out for blood. But since Mercy is protected from direct reprisal by the werewolf pack-and her relationship with its sexy Alpha-it's not Mercy's blood Marsilia is after...



--This text refers to the Mass Market Paperback edition.


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From Publishers Weekly

Briggs makes a well-deserved move into hardcover with the rousing fourth adventure for kick-ass were-coyote auto mechanic Mercedes Thompson. Healing in body and spirit after the events of 2008's Iron Kissed, Mercy is preparing to marry alpha werewolf Adam Hauptman when an old friend asks her to help fend off a nasty ghost. It's a good time for Mercy to leave Portland, Ore.: vampire queen Marsilia is after her and her vampire friend Stefan for successfully hunting down a monster that should have killed them. Mercy leaves Adam to negotiate peace with Marsilia and heads to Spokane, Wash., to investigate the ghost, an unexpectedly complicated task. Though action supersedes characterization, the preternatural culture of vampire seethes and wolf pack politics is deeply intriguing. Briggs provides plenty of detail about Mercy's complex world without boring info-dumps, satisfying both new and longtime readers. (Feb.)
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Plenty of Twists and turns ... Kept me entertained from its deceptively innocent beginning to its can't -put-it-down end Kim Harrison, bestselling author of Dead Witch Walking Thompson is a sharp, strong heroine and her lycanthropic love triangle is honest and steamy. Briggs never shies from difficult material, and she moves effortlessly from werewolf pack psychology to human legal proceedings, making this a tense, nimble, cro Publishers Weekly --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

Product Details

  • Hardcover: 309 pages
  • Publisher: Ace Hardcover; First Edition edition (February 3, 2009)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0441016766
  • ISBN-13: 978-0441016761
  • Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.3 x 1.1 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
  • Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (317 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #319,644 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Patricia Briggs is the author of the New York Times bestselling Mercy Thompson urban fantasy series. She lives in Washington state with her husband, children, and a small herd of horses.

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96 of 101 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Continued realism and excellent writing February 5, 2009
Format:Hardcover
The Fourth Installment in the Mercy Thompson series is a direct follow-up to Briggs well-written Iron Kissed (Mercy Thompson, Book 3). Mercy is still dealing with the many problems in her life and trying to recover from a horrific assault that was the climax of the previous book. The situation is ripe with opportunities for the author to wave a magic wand and make things all better, but Briggs doesn't and my respect for her writing climbs as a result.

Mercy is coping and dealing with her new role as the mate of the local Werewolf pack. She is still suffering side-effects of previous events, but that doesn't mean that she's giving up. Briggs does a great job of keeping the story moving, introducing the next elements of the story and mixing in how the recent changes in her life require Mercy to re-evaluate and adjust. It's wonderful because too many authors don't bother to address these issues. Many authors in this genre let change happen and everything magically work out with any real effort by the main character.

Life keeps giving us problems even when we might wish otherwise and Briggs doesn't let Mercy rest. New issues continue to creep into the story and past choices by supporting characters come back to haunt Mercy and her friends. It's neat to see an author who is willing to let the Main Character actually cope with the second and third order effects of having broken with tradition and made enemies in previous stories. It's not like Mercy is just on a non-stop wheel of pain, it's just that Briggs doesn't let her just skip through life without paying the bill for being the agent of change that she often has been.
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88 of 96 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Part of the pack February 4, 2009
Format:Hardcover
"My soul was a lot more battered than my body, but I couldn't see it in the mirror. Hopefully nobody else could either."

Patricia Briggs put her werecoyote heroine Mercy Thompson through the grinder in the past, complete with a brutal rape. "Bone Crossed" has Mercy dealing with a slew of new personal problems -- plus some very nasty vampire politics. It's a pretty busy story, but Briggs juggles the subplots -- and Mercy's internal troubles -- with unusual deftness.

A week after Tim's death, Mercy and Adam are trying to hash out the whole Alpha-mate situation, when a couple of unexpected guests arrive -- her mother, and a tortured, starved Stefan. Mercy destroyed Marsilia's right-hand man Andre, and the vampire has retaliated by almost killing Stefan and by roundabout attacks at the wolf pack (including a crazed snow elf).

To make matters worse, Mercy investigates a haunting at her old college buddy Amber's house... and discovers that the freakishly powerful vampire called the Monster is manipulating Amber. Stefan decides to take some drastic action to protect Mercy from other vampires... but it may not be enough to keep her safe from her new enemy.

Patricia Briggs has always had a knack for giving a unique spin to the staples of a genre, and fortunately "Bone Crossed" shows no diminishing of that. Instead, Briggs ties a bunch of subplots into a complicated knot, and slowly unravels it as Mercy discovers the answers to all the various mysteries. All through it, she continues to juggle the subplots without dropping them.

And Briggs' smooth, detailed style is well-suited to Mercy's world, which is described with mellow humor.
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50 of 55 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Angieville: BONE CROSSED February 3, 2009
Format:Hardcover
I get so excited when my favorite authors break into hardcover. In fact, I'm pleased as punch to shell out the bigger bucks because it means that the awesome I've been basking in for awhile now has finally caught on and is being recognized on a wider scale. So it was, in a word, thrilling to open up the package from Penguin and see the words "#1 New York TimesBestselling Author" atop Patricia Briggs' shiny new hardcover BONE CROSSED.

Mercy Thompson starts her fourth adventure staring herself down in the mirror trying to decide where to go from here. The closing events of Iron Kissed left our favorite VW mechanic feeling, at best, very conflicted. She managed to make several key decisions, but can't quite seem to outrun her demons. Of course occupying the place of honor as lone walker, Alpha's declared mate, and vampire public enemy #1 doesn't help. She doesn't have long to fret, though, when an old acquaintance shows up on her doorstep convinced Mercy can banish a ghost for her. Meanwhile, a pair of crossed bones show up on the door of her shop branding her traitor, her place in the pack is still perilously unclear, and her mother drops in unannounced. On the positive side, Stefan plays a much larger role in this one. In fact, Stefan really stole the show for me and it was good to have him back after his rather conspicuous, though necessary, absence in Iron Kissed (Mercy Thompson, Book 3). His friendship with Mercy remains a highlight of the series for me.

If you haven't guessed by now, these books are hands down my favorite urban fantasy series out there. I am ridiculously fond of them. And a big reason why is the nimble way Ms.
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Most Recent Customer Reviews
5.0 out of 5 stars Love it!
Absolutely loved the book. This series is a great read. Ordered from Books Squared. They sent it out right away and the book was in great condition.
Published 10 days ago by Yvonne McKenzie
5.0 out of 5 stars Bone Crossed
These are a total fantasy but what a fantasy. If you want a book to put in a different place with the werewolfs,fae's and vampires these are they books, they are great in order but... Read more
Published 13 days ago by Pat
4.0 out of 5 stars Great series
~4/5

I love this series. I love this series rather a lot. It's just so good. It's been a while since I read the last book, probably a month or two, and now I've gotten... Read more
Published 17 days ago by Jude
5.0 out of 5 stars Great series
This is a great series. Patricia needs to write faster. These books have everything for supernatural readers and I like how they flow from one to the next.
Published 22 days ago by bobby
5.0 out of 5 stars Amazing!!!
I loveeee it... all of them, and I appreciate to know when are the next books of Mercy Thompson. Thanks, Blessings.
Published 23 days ago by Carmen Martinez
4.0 out of 5 stars Its a good read
It's a good read, but the problem is that this book focuses very heavily on vampires. Patricia Brigg's vampires in this world, are just not that interesting. Read more
Published 25 days ago by Stormlord
5.0 out of 5 stars Mercy! Mercy! Mercy!
I have just recently started reading this series and can't get books fast enough. I am trying to read them in order written and many I found on audio so I can listen while... Read more
Published 28 days ago by Renfron
2.0 out of 5 stars Isn't this what they call a bait-and-switch?
I may have enjoyed this book more if it weren't for the fact that the product in the box wasn't what was advertised on the cover. Read more
Published 1 month ago by Jade
5.0 out of 5 stars Great Adventure With Mercy Thompson
I really enjoyed reading this adventure book. The author makes it real hard to put the book down and keeps you glued to the action. Read more
Published 1 month ago by Allen
5.0 out of 5 stars In trouble again.
How can one little coyote get in to so much trouble. What is next in the line of trouble. I realy enjoyed the way this series progresses. Read more
Published 1 month ago by Little wolf imp
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Feb 10, 2009 by J. Bergin |  See all 11 posts
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why are there unreleased books in this list?
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Stefan's feelings for Mercy???
I think Stefan probably DOES love Mercy, and I DO think his feelings are romantic. However, I personally would hope that Patty DOESN'T go there in any of the future books.

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