it could be worse

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PODCAST REVIEW mommy episode

-new book is 600 pages 🥴 no release date

-mercy is the most important mom (…bruh….)

-mercy is the mom but adam isnt the dad just the leader (the dude host saying ts) its one of the dumbest takes ive heard mercy isnt the mom at all

-“shes the protection” so if i swerve into traffic with a bus full of people and then swerve out and no one gets hurt it’s because im a protector✨💅

-she “loves them” no she doesn’t lol

-the other hosts dont agree thankfully

-“a mother to jesse and aiden” uh no? she’s more like jesse’s friend and she gave aiden away because his powers werent needed for the next villain of the week

-margie gave mercy abandonment issues - cant rely on her and has complicated feelings for her

-she didn’t tell her family mercy existed (chat is this true because i remember mercy saying her mom visited and took her to church and also mercy ended up living with them)

-blue jay woman sacrificed herself to have a child (couldnt be me but to each their own maybe she didn’t think it would kill her)

-leah was not a mom to charles or mercy but theres a reason why obvi

-evelyn is the only positive mother influence (we literally know nothing abt her)

-Chelsea mention (W)

-brans mom mention but no talk about which is annoyinggggg

-Sylvia protected her kids (agreed)

-mothers are lacking (at least they acknowledge this)

-Christy is in competition with jesse (i guess bc she did have a bf that tried to climb into bed w jesse)

-Margie is a good mom to mercy’s sisters (i dont know of any in text evidence of this tbh) and is manipulative (something about mercys wedding) i dont have a dog in this fight so yeah sure ig

Honestly surprised there wasn’t more Christy bashing because its so easy. There was no talk of Auriele wanting to adopt, no talk of fae baby and how Anna is a mom now, not much talk of Leah or how had to kill her son, no talk about the Cornick Witch (wanna know about her so bad like can we PLEASE get a first name). Overall I’m pretty disappointed with this episode.

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NOBODY in A&O is a good person:

Leah is TALL

Bran is a MANIPULATIVE LIAR

Charles likes FINANCES

Anna is a HORSEGIRL

Sage is ALSO TALL

Asil is a HYPOCRITE

Samuel

Tag is TALL TOO

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PEGGY has a WIFE

JUSTE is FRENCH

DEVON is DEAD

FRANK is SOMEWHERE

FAE BABY is PLOT DEVICE

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Currently reading Asil’s short stories and…

one review on good reads said that this book makes you repurchase stories that have already been released which is CRAZY I hate when authors pull that shit I think it’s unethical lol so shoutout the Libby app

I truly can’t get past the idea that people dont believe in vampires. I thought it was like an almost cold war situation where the only thing keeping everyone still was the mutually assured destruction of humans and vampires.

it doesn’t make any sense to me like if i heard fae and werewolves were real i’d just be like yeah okay every mythic creature is probably real in some sense (maybe portrayed in accurately in folk lore/media but still out there somewhere)

I also hate that ancient people are constantly paired up with young adults — still kids nearly with no life experience it’s all the major couples. Adam and Mercy have the smallest gap and tbh if my family member or friend came home with someone twice their age id try to stage an intervention lol

Kelly is a nothing character to me hes just shoved in there along with Ruby. I am fine with the idea of widowers moving on I mean Asil had had children so hes been over Sarai in some sense for a long time now but also it doesn’t make sense when the main characters always have “if anything happens to x ill kill myself and everyone around me” vibes

I wish briggs would focus more on character driven stories than plot driven stories her writing and storylines sometimes feels like a kid smashing their lil barbies together to make em kiss

this probably doesn’t make sense because uh how else do you write stories but i feel like a lot of the times she just wants things to be a certain way even if they don’t make sense and uses her characters as mouth pieces (the whole anna agreeing that she wouldn’t like mercy either even though thats fucking crazy bc mercy was a child) and the whole they can h e a r a lie or truth (except when its inconvenient for the plot like the bonds thing)

I don’t think kelly and ruby are needed and kelly’s name threw me off because there’s a kelly in adams pack so i was like huhh

also shoutout to kellys mom who isnt dead or evil

anyways i don’t think they are needed because asil and sherwood seem like people who should be able to get fulfillment through protecting their people and making an effort to be part of that community have hobbies and purpose and over coming their past/isolation/depression that way rather than just being thrown a wife or boyfriend(ugh sam) I just don’t think every character needs to be in a romantic relationship in order to be whole or at their full potential

also emphasis on sherwood for the above point because imo we are given the impression that he travelled a lot and alone and seemed very goal oriented i feel like having a young vulnerable human in the mix would complicate that and make that goal more difficult to achieve so thats weird

i think its nice that briggs is making more of her characters have different sexualities but lowkey the progress is undone by the fact that shes got hella misogyny is her books and is constantly falling into tropes (re: college kid and their 1 thousand year old husband)

the last thing ive been thinking about is that i wish briggs would stop adding characters tbh because she already has too many that she does nothing with like wulfe and stephen and even sam, bran, sherwood, leah, joel, moira, ariana and frank are all characters i would like to know more about and i would much rather have stories from their POV than have asil go find a new mate (imagine charles or mercy doing that lmao would never happen) also am not super interested in gary and honey as a couple tbh but am interested in gary and honey as a characters

i am tired of characters being brought in and used like a mystery mouseketool that just so happen to have specific powers that are the exact answer to the problem/villain just to move away or never be mentioned again — i bet ruby will have a very limited role in the new O&A book where her powers are exactly what they need and everyone approves of her and is happy for asil and we can pretend anna has a friend that she isnt charles or an unstable werewolf man for a few pages lol

this post is way longer than i intended my bad oops

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Podcast Review

cuz its about adam and i am a hater

-listened on 2x speed bcuz they are kinda boring to me sorry

-mercy is chaos which i personally dont agree with

-theres hope to see more moira which i can agree with

-mercy protects them in unexpected ways (which is good bc its lowkey her fault they get into half the shit they are in lol)

-adam is outside brans influence (which i dont think is true bc of mercy, sam, and sherwood) would other alphas try to do the same? would bran have to do a “smackdown?” i think no or if so it would just be like a lame b plot thing so that readers can see how awesome charles is

-adam is more powerful now

-strong parallels between bran and adam with their inner beast (but thats like all the wolves nearly even anna in dead heat says shes got a monster or something)

-one guy thinks they are gunna have beef and the other host thinks they have the same goal

-marrok adam propaganda YUCKKK

-other alpha mentions -arthur, jean

-mercy is co alpha (i thought briggs made this super obvious is this a question?)

-christy damaged adam and the whole pack and adams wolf wasnt her mate bc the wolf knew this and didn’t like her

-bran uses leah as a stabilizing force and has realized its not healthy

-the Bonds™️

-future issues will be because of darryls

-darryl will make a pack like a cadet branch of adams (not brans) to create tension and conflict but not all the hosts agree (i think that could happen in a book bc adam and mercy get to do whatever they want but i would hate to see it bc i hate adam lol)

-“just a bunch of special people” trueee

-next episode is about Moms which i am taking credit for even though thats completely delusional

I wanna say I hate adam bc his character is such just like a shell compared to other characters and theres too much doubling (more like quintupling) down on the idea that hes a fucking god amongst wolves when hes the blandest guy and you knew immediately hed end up with mercy bc he was described as a grumpy hottie (lammeee) I also wanna say that i really really wish sam wasnt a groomer bc his character is way more interesting to me but him tryna marry a 16 year old is so blehhh like briggs why cant we have nice things

I dont like them tryna make darryl out to be a problem when warren and sherwood (white guys) are supposedly above him technically and no one is worried about them needing to be alpha and i dont like the constant shitting on christy like adam MARRIED her when she was pretty young and he was def older than her by about 20 years so hes just as much to blame for any problem she made in his life

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untitled alpha and omega #7 come QUICKLY i NEED my leah cornick hype moments and aura

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If there’s either: kidnapping, sa, or the saving a politician in this book imma lose my mind (briggs keeps using these plot device over and over) I wanna see leah (i feel like she should mess with bran a little like pretend to consider leaving or something just to mess w him), I wanna hear about post, I don’t care about the baby, I want SOMEONE to mention bonorata because there’s no WAY they just don’t know he buys hella properties in the states and is helicoptering around without anyone caring. Also maybe bran noticing adam and mercy keep expanding their territory magically just with words (has happened in like two or three different books i think) im also sick of adding in random wildings with backstories only for them to die or never be mentioned again

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Final Fair Game Post

(probably)

This is my least favorite installment out of the 3.5 anna and charles stories I’ve yapped about so far

The first 3/4s of the book is a big nothing burger and you basically just sit through a bunch of meetings and people just walking around dumping background information on you. The whole ghost thing is just a bunch of nothing and they are banished by Charles just thinking to himself “actually i’m not a bad guy after all” . The puppy wish Leslie has and Hueters early talk of being a hunter and having access to a fae database make it extremely clear what is going to happen and kinda ruin the reveal and make everyone seem kinda dumb for not also seeing it with the reader.

The only action part is woefully similar to Hunting Ground where Anna gets kidnapped, uses the wolf as protection, Charles flips his crocs into sports mode and saves the day. I think PB just really loves writing Charles going apeshit and having everyone cow to him to find his woman

There’s this weird disconnect where things are stated constantly about charles and anna by both themselves and other characters that really dont match up with their words and actions. I don’t actually find either of them likeable and I like them better in other characters words but the actual characters dont match that. I like the idea of them but they aren’t executed well by Briggs most of the time if that makes sense. The fanfics of the mercyverse series are better than anything shes written lol.

Everything is explained ad nauseam except for the super important ghost thing imo i’m still wondering how exactly that worked

I’m tired of the over-explaination of hierarchy of every single character in every scene in comparison to charles. it’s exhausting and a waste of page space but a sure fire way to hit a word count ig

I’m tired of positive werewolf PR stunts its lame to me sorry

The bond thing is also being exhausted in this series. I wish she made the magic of the bonds different/wayyy milder and not a psychic connection so she wouldnt keep having to “shut them down”

Like in HG, it’s hard to have other characters in the same pages as charles and anna bc no one is allowed a spotlight other than them. All other characters serve as a sounding board to echo how great charles and anna are. I like Hally even though i dont think briggs intended it and Isaac was cool but again everyone pales in comparison to charles and anna and he was given a POV chapter just to show from outside charles’ mind how epic he is. I also like Leslie and Beauclaire. Also credit to PB for including Lizzies mom in the ending supporting her kid even though theres like three dead/deadbeat moms in this book lol (b. hueters, leslie, sally reilly)

This book and River Marked both attribute developmental disabilities to violent, cruel fae and I think thats fucked up personally like people can be dumb and mean… you don’t have to compare them to autistic people. Like that’s actually really shitty. and Anna saying she volunteered in high school to babysit kids with autism and such and they were “usually sweet unless their parents spoiled them” its CRAZY. maybe im too sensitive to this because I have a family member with autism and thus have been around a bunch of autistic kids - some do definitely have behavioral issues but to blame it on them being “spoiled” shows me Briggs knows nothing and did no research about kids on the spectrum.

Anna saying crazy shit often makes me wonder how im supposed to see her as a peace bringer when she seems super uninformed and ignorant about anything that doesnt have to do with werwolves or charles and if this was pointed out to her and a reason for her to get her own life and grow in the stories that would be actually fantastic but it isnt annas a perfect werewolf princess to everyone around her ugh

PB truly uses rape way too much in this series there’s:

-anna’s backstory

-sage’s backstory

-ben’s backstory

-leah’s backstory + all the singer’s victims

-mercy and the tim thing

-anna in fair game

-lizzie in the fair game + all the other victims

-anna in wild sign

-lenka in silence fallen

and that’s just what I remember from the top of my head

I don’t mind dark topics in books but its like the only evil things Briggs knows is either mind control or rape and that gets old after 20 books.

bonus cringe moments:

- Charles hating to use technology but being an amazing incredibly high level computer scientist and software engineer is weird to me. When and where did he learn all this?

- anna saying she isnt a counselor when shes always fucking counseling people

-- “anna was okay because charles found her and taught her to be strong” ummmm yikes

——-- apparently anna was going to be the next yo-yo ma (thats an exact quote) gimme a break

———-- i want a sally Reilly short story from PB love a woman entrepreneur lol

————what drugs did they use on Anna? i thought werewolves couldnt be drugged and that was the whole reason Gerry making the silver concoction that allows drugs to enter the werewolf cells in MC

————— anna just airing out all charles’ business to anyone who would listen talking about his magic and heritage that would pmo and also seems weird bc charles is private/reserved i wouldn’t think he’d appreciate it also its just wasting more page space rehashing shit already mentioned in this book and every other installment

- on a positive note charles talking about how small the boat is was pretty funny : “if they found Lizzie, they might have to tie her to the bow or make her swim for it”

—————-- ah yes moira and anna are “fast friends” just like honey and mercy are friends

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Mercyverse dumb rambling

Fair Game is a total slog but at least its giving me a lot of things to blab about

“most werewolves she knew were staunch Christians” gee really? are you sure? whenever Briggs starts up with politics or religion she absolutely loses me as a reader because its so ham fisted and needless. I can get behind items of faith being used to repel vampires and such i am NOT interested in every hero character being a conservative church going christian. I just dont like the way Briggs does it. Between Two Fires is literally about the end of the world being saved by god (who has inhabited a tween girl) and that books slaps.

Kelley Armstrong’s Women of the Otherworld series (has its issues but i like the characters a bit better) has literal angels and demons with out really getting into religion or politics that much. Briggs doesn’t really even do anything interesting with the christianity she puts into her books like the half-demons kelley has. I wish a real ass demon would show up. Lemme see Purson riding a damn bear. Lemme see something interesting instead of just talking about it. Have something happen like an evil priest trope or something that will maybe give the characters pause to their faith or question their religion. Or even just play with the idea that bad people don’t just lurk in alleyways.I feel like being an ancient supernatural being would make someone question a benevolent god. However, with the way Briggs writes the majority of her women and all her “positive” men, I’m not at all surprised she hasn’t even shown a passing interest in suggesting anything other than that great paternal all father god.

also - I swear Mercy will single handedly defeat Bonorata by singing ave maria or some shit

I am not religious at all and maybe that’s why I feel that way, but I’ve read books that heavily featured religion and liked them. I honestly just think it’s because Briggs has such a rich variety of characters, creatures and pantheons featured in her stories that it’s kinda boring to me that there’s no ambiguity and no follow through with that particular mythology. I think it also circles back to this issue: The main characters beliefs and world views are all pretty homogenous on most things. Its kinda boring at best and its kinda weird at worst (like how so many characters are victims of SA to give them “lore” and trauma and a reason to …need a man? )

I do think its also a “its not that deep” situation that doesn’t effect reading enjoyment for many but this blog is for me to talk outta my ass for funsies

I do really enjoy the idea of the creatures and people Briggs has but I don’t think she does enough diverse things with them and I don’t think she does a lot of the justice (LEAH AND SHERWOOD AND JOEL)

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Fart Game Thoughts 6?

-charles spending a paragraph critiquing Beauclaire’s choice of Welsh song that he sings to his TRAUMATIZED DAUGHTER is funking bonkers hes so annoying imagine listening to a parent try to console their wounded, roofied scared daughter with a lil song they probably sang to her when she was a little girl and be like “ummm 🤓☝️that song is not suitable for your vocal range and it’s not a very well written song” people are actually right to avoid charles i cannot imagine him having a conversation with someone in a normal capacity. hes either telling anna she belongs to him or hes correcting someone thats it

- and that would maybe be okay if the author was aware of how this comes off and has other characters be aware of it on perhaps differing levels but she loves him too much and forces the narrative to make him seem perfect all the time

- PB Boy Mom confirmed

-codependent furries thats it thats the series

-kinda of picky but i hate when men and women are called males and females i feel like male and female are for describing a creature not referring solely to a man or a woman in place of a noun its weird to me lol

-they are once again angling at Hueter…which i caught the first time like one million pages ago

-again anna and food and reminding us about how waif she is - never hungry! charles is a feeder ig (ew lol jk) when we are in Mercy’s shoes she’s not hungry either or all the werwolves eat soooo much more than her so its the wittle coyote who could and the quaalude werewolf who conveniently has no appetite

-“i dont need a body guard” says the woman who is about to be kidnapped….again

-Anna hates on herself calls herself a wimp blah blah blah hates on catwoman and sue from fantastic four (i dont know these characters very well but catwoman always seemed like a baddie to me is this misogyny on anna/pbs part?)

-the main woman in these novels always saying how weak they are but they always come out on top like its so annoying its not cutesy just admit ur badass its okay

-i kinda feel like the omega thing is contradictory? she sends the wolf to sleep/at peace (by doing fuck all mind you ugh) and at the same time they are over protective of her at even the thought of her getting hurt (isaacs eyes were yellow which all other books say means the wolf is close (aka awake?) so which is it does it alert the wolf or send them to sleep or be at peace or whatever? am i misunderstanding?

-again i feel like theres too much sameness in PBs main women with Mercy and Anna both putting spirits (the dead/vampires (wulfe?) for mercy and wolves for anna) to “peace” by doing literally fuck all and just being their super quirky special selves

- I could also probably say that about adam and charles too with their weird special magic that has no rules either and is just there to put them above everyone else in every scene

- the flirting/having sex infront of an audience just so everyone can “know who she belongs to”/ so everyone can teehee about it ughh bleh

- both men being described as super hot (adam as “slavic”/“movie star” what ever the fuck that means and charles as exotic which is just inaccurate) being with women who aren’t described as being knockout beauties (book covers notwithstanding) (even though everyone in the books either wants her in some way or her man)

- Its probably just because of my own taste in fiction but feels like PB switched mercy’s and adam’s races and said “yeah theyll never know its the same thing”

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Fair Game Thoughts 5

- kinda pissed at the Hally hate tbh God forbid a woman be powerful

-not even sally reilly has mom!!! (shes dead and charles talked to her dad for research a while ago) PB loves a dead mom

-the whole “ill destroy the world for x” is really not interesting or romantic at all to me because literally every motherfucker in the books says that about their SO

- it would never ever have a chance of happening bc the author only writes perfect moral heroes and not any morally conflicted characters

-anna being described as “not short” by herself even though she’s like 5’2” in CW which is on the short side sorta so thats weird

-anna giving charles a bj on the evil haunted island where children were murdered after spending 50 pages being pissed off and righteous over the witches’ disrespect of the dead is crazy hypocrisy also weird and not romantic to me at all like ah yes the power of giving sloppy toppy can cure evil island induced suicidal ideation

- i honestly think id like it wayyy better if charles and anna weren’t together or at least not in an insta love way like i think they could do like a buddy werewolf cop/detective dynamic thing pretty well especially because of the age and visual differences and the whole omega thing but rn they are like ariana and cynthia on the wicked press tour (you can pick who is who lol)

-they’re laughing. they boinked at the island where people were assaulted, murdered, and tortured, and they’re laughing. so nice they did it twice. i honestly would not care and even think it was funny in a screwed up way if i didn’t have to read through 2.5 books of them being super self righteous about everything like its not cute. wheres MY rolling pin?

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Fair Game Thoughts 4

ive just realized I don’t know the target audience for these books - is it older women? because I’m reading some other books concurrently right now (Gillian Flynn’s Sharp Objects and Between Two Fires by Christopher Buehlman) (both are incredible tbh) and PB’s books read like they are meant for really square tweens lmao (no cusssing!! save room for the holy spirit!!) compared to Flynn’s and Buehlman’s writing. They seem really juvenile(?) and i’m not saying PB needs to be darker and grittier or to start dropping the fuck word everywhere - its just that there seems to be a difference in quality to me like I cant actually believe a lot of these people are fleshed out adults/fossils while at the same time they act geriatric (mercy not knowing how to use a smart phone like adams and anna being a 20 something year old that only knows cello and charles) like WHO is at the club??? WHY isnt she finishing her degree??? idk gow many more grandma rolling pin references I can take. this has gone completely off the rails lmao im sorry

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Fair Game thought 3

this “werewolf women cant have babies” and the story about the woman killing her own child and losing her humanity and having to die is kinda weird considering the other books set it up as theres people that the wolf would never hurt like bran was straight up psycho for decades or centuries and he didn’t hurt samuel ever and all other wolves like Chelsea and Adam with kids are super protective over them. Also its a PB Novel so no mommies allowed!!!!! Duh! but truly, I think a better way to do this would be for the lady wolf to have killed someone that got too close to her den like a hiker or ranger or another werewolf - whatever before she gave birth and then when charles kills her they find out her plan after the fact.

and lmaooo anna’s “okay but im different” response there’s literally no empathy or sympathy for the woman or charles for having to witness that shit

and Samuel is freaking out thinking she’s gunna try and she’s like ugh better change the subject i guess girl what

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Fair Game thoughts 2

this book is taking forever to set up the premise by having charles give us a ten page talk on body language and hierarchy on the six people in the room with him ughh

1. charles says he went swimming but uhh i thought they couldn’t swim so was he just like casually drowning? treading water? doggy paddle? interesting

2. anna has to distract charles with the “can i get a water bottle thru tsa” bet not because he needs some light heartedness in his grave life but because he needs to be distracted because he cant handle anna being put through a security check at the airport ugh like it was close to being wholesome but no everything these women do in these books revolve around regulating their man’s emotions

3. charles lusting after her throat while she drinks water in the airport is crazy work he can’t believe that her sexy water drinking can exist in the same world as the laws that require him to murder people (this is paraphrasing like this is his internal monologue) w-what? huh? idek

4. this is totally just a personal opinion but …. isnt it kinda weird that the only native male mc is always scaring everyone and being seen as a savage/monster/predator? like adam, bran,samuel, stefan, darryl ect arent seen like that? i feel like its weird and excessive that everyone is absolutely terrified of charles and no one gets him at all even his dad sometimes except for anna like thats so incredibly isolating (which is probably the point) and i think maybe taking a trope too far (also on the covers hes only been shown as human once i believe which is probably just artistic choice but still)

- this combined with pb constantly describing him as exotic ( HES FROM MONTANA) and her calling him one of her fav characters … its giving … unfortunately a word that rhymes with pettish (actually no i retract that i dont think its quite that bad i wanna know what other people think of it though!!)

5. Not even just a PB problem i’ve seen it across the genre but like…nearly all the bad guys are rapists in these books I think its just cuz thats like the lowest of the low and adds to the horror aspect but its kinda repetitive after a while and feels like a cop-out. Give me a bad guy thats likable or has something interesting going on morally rather than making shallow evil people who are only there so that the mcs shine even brighter and more heroically than ever. It’s boring because its used so often in books like these and leaves no room for interesting characters or questions about who is right and who is wrong. for some reason its so hard for authors to make main characters whose mistakes or choices that are either: A) always correct in the end or B) are immediately forgiven/dont have real repercussions but maybe i only feel this way because some of my favorite books are stand alone novels where everyone is kinda an asshole

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Fair Game thoughts 1

I am reading these back and I sound like a complete hater and that’s okay with me I personally love watching/reading people tear media apart.

1) Leslie’s mom left her and her dad because this is a Patricia Briggs novel duh

-Fae giving Leslie a Chekov’s gun aw gee what’s this gunna be used for

-the gift could be used to “save some other puppy from monsters” this is a werewolf book so subtle

2) telling and not showing extravaganza? anna said if anyone yelled at her the first week she came to aspen creek she would have hid in a corner and not come out for a week which is supposed to show her growth but it honestly doesn’t seem true to me her first week there she got married to a stranger - sorry i mean soulmate, went into dangerous mountains and one-shotted (?) an evil ancient powerful witch like sorry excuse me what

- i feel like pb wants to have these “oh lil old me saving the day uwu” characters but it just doesn’t work because what she actually makes to me is these old ladies in a young adult woman body with the ability of the chosen one in a ya novel — i’m not even saying thats a bad combo you can be deadly and like crocheting or baking thats cool but dont try to convince readers that the characters are something else

-i thought charles said bran can’t make him do anything he didnt want to do himself — why isnt he talking to bran about any of it? he was able to get him to stay home for the other books plot but hes helpless now?

- the “im a monster woe is me” crap is annoying pb makes a lot of her characters feel this way and its just repetitive like pick one or two characters and give them different reasons for feeling that way and really explore them rather than just using it as a plot device or something to stir the pot with occasionally.

- a lot of telling and not showing due to the choice of the cold opening and making charles suddenly have a monster-complex like every other character in the book and again being inconsistent about the wolf dynamics is doing nothing for me

- Dominate wolves have a “compulsory need” to protect others yet in other books these wolves have been huge abusive assholes so clearly its not that cut and dry also charles given “just following orders” vibes randomly for the plot

- “when the wolves he executed died, so did a part of charles” so emo lol

3) I do like that this book makes bran look and act like a huge asshole but they way he talks to anna in the opening is not really what i would expect from an ancient monster guy who has been given the vibes of (to me) a shrewd and cerebral leader - its just him growling at her and calling her a little girl its very condescending and also at the same time petulant and i am disappointed and was just expecting m o r e like expecting an obsidian scalpel and getting a butter knife but maybe thats the point

4) ANNA STOP CALLING YOUR HUSBAND EXOTIC

5) i dont like adam hes probably one of my least favorite characters — im very much biased so i thought the phone call between him and bran was one big eye roll because of course adam is right and the best guy ever despite his ~flaws~ ughhh

-letting charles and anna do the fbi stuff is supposed to fix him? as if hes not going to go back to killing people right after? okay sure here’s some neosporin for your CPTSD

-the people he most recently had to kill got in trouble because they killed a pedophile and then partially ate him making this example so black and white (its very good that he died and no one cares if they ate him obviously) it forces adam to be right bran to be wrong in a way that the reader cant do anything but accept and feel bad for charles this wolf “victim” is so cartoonishly and blantantly evil (caught red handed and everything) that its kind of annoying and side note: dont packs employ witches that can make people disappear and clean crime scenes perfectly? why set up this scenario specifically for the reasons wolves have to die there’s got to be a more creative way to do it

6) I did like Asil in this beginning part of the book. I do think its weird that Leah flirted with him at some point and wondered what she wanted/ expected to get out of it

I’m sorry to drag anyone though my stream of consciousness while reading but even more than that I like posting my thoughts about these books here

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Just to give you an example of how mind numbingly stupid and asinine the Mercyverse Facebook page is, there was discussion a couple of days ago about Sylvia, Mercy and Samuel and the scene in Silver Bourne where Sylvia gets angry at Mercy for deceiving her that the big white dog (Samuel) her daughters were playing with, was a werewolf.

People were ripping into Sylvia like she committed some crime or something. A couple of users insinuated that Sylvia was jealous of Mercy because of her relationship with Gabriel and this just adds more fire to my belief that Mercy is pretty much a self insert wish fulfillment for a lot of these readers. They get sooo hurt and out of shape when a character, especially if it's a female one, is even mildly against Mercy like it's something personal.

It's like when I sometimes take a peak into the rabid Acotar page and you can tell those teenage/young adults project HARD onto the characters. In the case of Mercyverse page it's middle aged women and up. They need to grow up!

[peiorate]

I only ever thought that Sylvia was the only sound of mind adult/mother in the series…. we havent heard of her since because she’s protecting her peace like she should

unforch, i bet she’s gunna call Mercy for help because Gabe is probably accidentally marrying a demon or something (the wedding invite jessie got right? maybe im wrong abt that)

[mercy-thompson-fanfiction]

I hate to say it because I love her, I do.

But Mercy is that coworker where you’re like “girl, please, we need five minutes without something happening.”

[peiorate]

Mercy is the kind of coworker I’d ask if they’d recently thrifted an amulet (cursed object)

[slowlysointernet]

''Mercy's close to Honey''

No she's not 🙄🙄🙄 I've never read a scene between them where i thought that there was warmth between them like genuine friends have.

[peiorate]

And their “friendship” is only ever brought up in response to the complaint that the books are a sausage fest and mercy has no woman friends

[slowlysointernet]

I must've missed the memo or something? Why do keep i seeing that Bran is going to retire, die, get killed, let someone take over the Marrok role. What have i missed?

[peiorate]

I think it’s because it’s kinda a Chekhov’s gun to readers of Briggs’ books. She constantly having characters think/say “oh no if (x) happens (y) will destroy the world/die/go bananas” and it never ever happens. The story and characters have been on a carousal for nearly a decade now and with Briggs’ obsession with constantly handing adam and mercy new powers….somethings gotta happen. I don’t want the books to be going in the direction they are, but I can see why people think Bran is going to die or bend the knee to adam or mercy or anna or charles or whatever. Hope they are wrong about it though.