Silver Borne by Patricia Briggs

Sunday, April 18, 2010

Silver Borne by Patricia Briggs

This weekend I finished reading the latest novel in the Mercy Thompson series (one of my favorite urban fantasy series), Silver Bourne, by Patricia Briggs.

When mechanic and shapeshifter Mercy Thompson attempts to return a powerful Fae book she'd previously borrowed in an act of desperation, she finds the bookstore locked up and closed down.

It seems the book contains secret knowledge-and the Fae will do just about anything to keep it out of the wrong hands. And if that doesn't take enough of Mercy's attention, her friend Samuel is struggling with his wolf side-leaving Mercy to cover for him, lest his own father declare Sam's life forfeit.

All in all, Mercy has had better days. And if she isn't careful, she might not have many more to live...

Definitely a fantastic new installment in the Mercy series. I was enthralled from the first page until the end. And of course anyone out there who loves urban fantasy should definitely be reading this series.

Check out the sample chapter.

8 comments:

Ann Marie Wraight said...: It's great to see that lately quite a few competitions are open INTERNATIONALLY...I'm sure that others like me don't feel so isolated.

THANK YOU for taking the time to post
AT THE WEEKEND
- that's true dedication!; April 18, 2010 at 4:30 PM
Kay said...: I get a little confused with all the ways "fantasy" in broken into sub-genres, so I noticed when you called the Mercy Thompson series "urban fantasy". Having driven through that area many times, I've always thought the series "rural fantasy". Guess my mind is just to literal.; April 18, 2010 at 5:28 PM
Patti said...: I loved this book - Ms. Briggs did it again as far as I'm concerned. I love Mercy, and Adam,and Samuel, and....you get the picture!; April 18, 2010 at 7:11 PM
Janicu said...: Heh, it's Borne, not Bourne (I kept correcting myself too. Is it the BOURNE IDENTITY/ULTIMATUM/ etc movies? I dunno).; April 18, 2010 at 8:37 PM
suzie townsend said...: Kay, "urban fantasy" is the subgenre for fiction with fantasy or paranormal elements which are set in a modern day/realistic (ie urban) setting. (like Laurell K Hamilton, Jim Butcher, Kim Harrison, etc).

Janicu, eek! #agentfail; April 18, 2010 at 9:35 PM
Shelley Watters said...: This sounds right up my alley. It sounds fantastic. My poor kids are going to have to go to a community college because mommy spent all their college money on books! Hehe. Just kidding. But Ms. Briggs is definitely on my list to read!

So many amazing books, so little time to read them...

Thanks for bringing her work to our attention!; April 19, 2010 at 1:36 AM
Suzette Saxton said...: Thanks for the recommendation! =); April 25, 2010 at 2:01 AM
Tina said...: I really enjoyed this one. Her MT series gets better and better with each book.; May 5, 2010 at 11:15 AM

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Five Random Things About Suzie

1. I drink so much orange soda, it's probably running through my veins. I've been known to go through a twelve pack of diet sunkist in a day.

2. I'm legitimately nocturnal (or a vampire). I will be so exhausted at two pm that I'm falling asleep standing up - it has happened before, at Six Flags no less - but as soon as the sun goes down I'm wide awake.

3. I have a gorgeous unused $6000 Reem Acra wedding dress hanging in my closet, and it showed up on my doorstep the same day my (now ex) fiance broke up with me. And thank God for that. I wouldn't have wanted to waste that dress on him.

4. Social anxiety plagues me daily. I write a script and practice in front of the mirror when I have to make a phone call, but most people who interact with me have no idea how nervous I am (or perhaps they lie) because I've worked so hard to try to overcome it.

5. I'm actually worried that I will never love my children (when I do have them in the far off future) as much as I love my dogs. I just like animals better than people - they're sweet and innocent and soft and furry - is that so wrong?

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金不一定閃
流浪者不都迷路

"I dreamed you bewitched me into bed

And sung me moon-struck, kissed me quite insane
I think I made you up inside my head
I fancied you'd return the way you said
But I grow old and I forget your name
I think I made you up inside my head" ~Silvia Plath, Mad Girl's Love Song

"Love is the irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired." ~ Robert Frost

"Love is not love,
Which alters when it alteration finds." ~ William Shakespeare, "Sonnet 116"

"Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgiastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that's no matter- tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther…And one fine morning-...So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past." ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald, THE GREAT GATSBY

"For deadly secrets strike when understood
and lucky stars all exit on the run:
never try to knock on rotten wood,
never try to know more than you should." ~ Sylvia Plath, "Admonitions"

"The heaviest of burdens crushes us, we sink beneath it, it pins us to the ground. But in the love poetry of every age, the woman longs to be weighed down by the man's body. The heaviest of burdens is therefore simultaneously an image of life's most intense fulfillment. The heavier the burden, the closer our lives come to the earth, the more real and truthful they become." ~ Milan Kundera, THE UNBEARABLE LIGHTNESS OF BEING

William Wilberforce: "No one of our age has ever taken power."
William Pitt Jr: "Which is why we're too young to realize certain things are impossible. Which is why we will do them anyway."

"If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man." ~ Mark Twain

"Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, it is time to reform." ~ Mark Twain

“You know what I am going to say. I love you. What other men may mean when they use that expression, I cannot tell; what I mean is, that I am under the influence of some tremendous attraction which I have resisted in vain, and which overmasters me. You could draw me to fire, you could draw me to water, you could draw me to the gallows, you could draw me to any death, you could draw me to anything I have most avoided, you could draw me to any exposure and disgrace.” ~ Charles Dickens, A MUTUAL FRIEND

"I think the idea of life after death is a bad idea. It distracts you from appreciating the uniqueness of the here and now, the moment you are living." ~ Joseph Campbell

"Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that is the inheritor of our fear...Cry for the broken tribe, for the law and the custom that is gone. Aye, and cry aloud for the man who is dead, for the woman and children bereaved. Cry, the beloved country, these things are not yet at an end." ~ Alan Paton, CRY, THE BELOVED COUNTRY

"To laugh often and much.. to endure the betrayal of false friends, to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others, to leave the world a bit better... To know even one life has breathed easier because you lived, This is to have succeeded." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

"After telling the hard facts to anyone from lover or friend, I have changed in their eyes...[Some see it as] a mission, as if ...they can pull me back from the wreckage of that day. Of course, their best efforts are largely useless. No one can pull anyone back from anywhere. You save yourself or you remain unsaved." ~ Alice Sebold, LUCKY

"Did you hear about the rose that grew from a crack in the concrete?
Proving nature's law is wrong it learned to walk with out having feet.
Funny it seems, but by keeping it's dreams, it learned to breathe fresh air.
Long live the rose that grew from concrete when no one else ever cared." ~Tupac, The Rose That Grew From Concrete

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Sunday, April 18, 2010