Genre: Adult Paranormal Romance
Rating (Out of 5): ~3.5
Publisher: Penguin (Ace)
Spoilers?: No/Very Minor.
Goodreads Synopsis:
Mercy Thompson's
life is not exactly normal. Her next-door neighbor is a werewolf. Her
former boss is a gremlin. And she's fixing a VW bus for a vampire. But
then, Mercy isn't exactly normal herself.
Available on Amazon.
Review:
I have had this
book on my shelf for way too long, and I even started it a while ago and then
paused it. Finally, though, I decided to actually read it, and really quite
enjoyed it. I was even a bit surprised by how much.
Moon Called is the first in the series,
and it’s about Mercedes Thompson, a coyote shapeshifter who lives next door to
a werewolf alpha, works with a gremlin, works for vampires (as well as humans),
and is involved with many other supernatural creatures.
Mercedes, a.k.a.
Mercy, is a mechanic, and she knows what she’s doing. Having mostly grown up
with werewolves, she knows how to handle them well, when to push and when not
to. She knows when to ask questions, and how to deal with creatures, and even
when she should back off and concede. She doesn’t seem to just barge into
things without actually thinking about it, while still having a spark inside
her, which I very much like. She also dislikes when women are put down, are
thought of as less, because of their gender, which I also liked about her. And
she’s humorous; fun to be inside the head of.
I just really liked
her, and look forward to getting to know her even better in the next books.
In this book, we
not only get to know the other characters in Mercy’s life, but her past. She
goes back home and sees her kind-of-adopted-father, we get some information
about her mother, and an old flame comes into the picture. Quite a bit happened
in this book, what with her past relations and her new ones having problems.
I really liked the
plot movement, the characters, the interactions between them all. I was
surprised by this, and very glad, as it caused me to get through this book
rather quickly (although longer than I wanted to, as I really just wanted to
finish the book, but I had all this homework that took precedence, as well as
sleep that I needed to do…).
Now, the romance.
For some reason (perhaps because of the other books I have read in this genre),
I was expecting a lot more romance. There was very little, though. We’re set up
with two guys, both very good and interesting, but nothing actual physical
happened (aside from a tiny bit of kissing), nor did much talking about it
happen. There was a lot more action-based stuff happening that Mercy needed to
focus on, which she knew, and she did.
And it says quite a
bit that there was almost no romance in the majority of the book, and yet I
still really liked it.
I hope to read the
next one really soon, because this was a really good start, and I hope it only
gets better from here.
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