A review of “Bone Crossed” A Mercy Thompson novel by Patricia Briggs
The fourth book in the series picks up exactly where the last
novel left off. Surprisingly, this book does what I was hoping it would do and
deals with Mercy's trauma after the events of the last book. Her love interest,
Adam, chooses not to sleep with Mercy because Mercy needs time to heal and deal
with her trauma. In this novel, Adam is a bit less possessive over Mercy after
she agrees to be his mate. To complicate things, Stefan enters the picture and
there is some flirting between them, but she still wants to be with Adam. The
love triangle stuff is mild in this book, but we get some new elements that
hold my interest.
In the beginning, Mercy's mother comes to check up on her
daughter after Mercy's assault. I was surprised but happy to see that Mercy's
mom, who hasn't been a character in the books up until now, is concerned about
her daughter. She leaves the book early, but it was nice to finally meet her.
We also meet an old friend of Mercy's from college. Amber comes by to see if
Mercy can help her out with a ghost problem. A side story is the vampire
mistress and Stefan continuing the aftermath of the events from the second
book. So, to avoid the vampires, Mercy goes to her old friend Amber's house.
Mercy wants to protect Amber's son, Chad, from the ghost. Mercy also runs into
the only vampire in Amber's town, which Mercy was instructed to avoid.
I was hoping this book would explore more of the ghost world,
and how ghost work and what their rules are in this world. In a way the book
does introduce multiple ghosts, but never really explain some of their unique
powers. The mysterious big bad vampire bites Mercy and complicates her
relationship with Stefan because Stefan has to then bite Mercy to prevent the
big bad vampire from controlling Mercy. Surprisingly, Adam doesn't have a
problem with Stefan biting her, even though it connects them in a special way.
So, Mercy leaves Amber's house after not being able to help
with the ghost. When Mercy gets back home, she and Adam seal the deal on their
relationship but the next night, Mercy is kidnapped. Again. Given the fact that
it has only been like two weeks since the last book's ending, Mercy is not
freaking out as much as she should be. While I applaud the book for attempting
to deal with Mercy's trauma, it doesn’t handle it as well as I would have
liked.
The one problem with this book's ending, is that the book sets up the big bad vampire as being super powerful, yet Mercy disposes of him quickly, after remembering she can turn into a coyote, and uses that to attack him. Then a fae character throws the fae walking stick and just happens to stab the vampire through the heart. Then Mercy grabs a kitchen knife that is capable of decapitating the vampire. And the ghost lady that drinks the vampire’s blood, just disappears. It's a very anticlimactic ending that doesn't make much sense with what the book has built up this big bad vampire.
I don't come to these books for realism, or a serious fantasy
tone, they are fun mysteries with characters I enjoy and I do like the
romance/flirting relationships. All I ask is that if you’re going to set something
up make sure to follow through with it. The side plot with the vampire mistress
is interesting and will continue to develop over the next few books. This book
had some good elements, I like introducing the mom and learning more about
Mercy’s past. It’s a decent entry into this series.
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