Soul Taken by Patricia Briggs
Nov. 13th, 2022 09:29 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
iariaEnjoyable as always.
+ Love all the bits of Mercy as Coyotes daughter, locus of chaos and change. I loved Sherwood's line about how "the pair of you together make a better Alpha" and that they are very much Alpha as a pair. I love the direction the books are going with this. Also with how Mercy, in this position of co-Alpha, is changing the ways things have always worked in not just werewolf packs but in the supernatural world in general.
+ Continue to love the expanding connections - Larry offer a true allyship and the white witches reaching out and the new and improved relationship with the vampires (I assume).
+ I thought Mercy was going to take Tilly’s deal but I like that she a) trusted Zee and b) still made it a bargain where he had to destroy it.
+ I loved the reasoning behind Warren’s tension and crankiness. Kyle loving and worrying about him so much that he made the new car he gave Warren over-protective was super sweet and funny.
+ There's an ongoing thread of inanimate objects becoming sentient that I like and would like to see more of.
+ Interested in getting more follow-up on the fact that vampires have souls and also what that means for Mercy with her duel connection to souls and the dead via Coyote. She doesn't think that she can heal Wulfe, and perhaps she can't at this point, but what about the future? Wulfe is the type of person who thinks long term like that and I could see him purposefully working to up her power to get her to the point of being able to help him.
+ Hope the next books has more Stefan and we finally get more on his bond with Mercy.
+ I liked getting to see/hear a bit about the white/gray witches and the other lesser magical beings flocking to the Tri-Cities. That's an aspect of the pack taking on a protector role that I want to see more of. I did find it strange that there was no mention of them in the rap up at the end. There was consideration in the book over how they'd failed but then it doesn't get touched upon again when things go back to normal. Not even a mention of them thinking of ways to better protect the weak, or them wanting to maintain better contact with the white witches.
+ The problem with having such a big cast is that Aiden and Joel being shooed offscreen at the beginning and then not being mentioned again, even a phone call, didn't make that much sense considering the shit that was going down.
+ I liked getting to see more from other points of view.
+ Love all the bits of Mercy as Coyotes daughter, locus of chaos and change. I loved Sherwood's line about how "the pair of you together make a better Alpha" and that they are very much Alpha as a pair. I love the direction the books are going with this. Also with how Mercy, in this position of co-Alpha, is changing the ways things have always worked in not just werewolf packs but in the supernatural world in general.
+ Continue to love the expanding connections - Larry offer a true allyship and the white witches reaching out and the new and improved relationship with the vampires (I assume).
+ I thought Mercy was going to take Tilly’s deal but I like that she a) trusted Zee and b) still made it a bargain where he had to destroy it.
+ I loved the reasoning behind Warren’s tension and crankiness. Kyle loving and worrying about him so much that he made the new car he gave Warren over-protective was super sweet and funny.
+ There's an ongoing thread of inanimate objects becoming sentient that I like and would like to see more of.
+ Interested in getting more follow-up on the fact that vampires have souls and also what that means for Mercy with her duel connection to souls and the dead via Coyote. She doesn't think that she can heal Wulfe, and perhaps she can't at this point, but what about the future? Wulfe is the type of person who thinks long term like that and I could see him purposefully working to up her power to get her to the point of being able to help him.
+ Hope the next books has more Stefan and we finally get more on his bond with Mercy.
+ I liked getting to see/hear a bit about the white/gray witches and the other lesser magical beings flocking to the Tri-Cities. That's an aspect of the pack taking on a protector role that I want to see more of. I did find it strange that there was no mention of them in the rap up at the end. There was consideration in the book over how they'd failed but then it doesn't get touched upon again when things go back to normal. Not even a mention of them thinking of ways to better protect the weak, or them wanting to maintain better contact with the white witches.
+ The problem with having such a big cast is that Aiden and Joel being shooed offscreen at the beginning and then not being mentioned again, even a phone call, didn't make that much sense considering the shit that was going down.
+ I liked getting to see more from other points of view.
