Friday, October 27, 2017

Mercy Thompson: Homecoming by Patricia Briggs and David Lawrence

Mercy Thompson: Homecoming
by Patricia Briggs, with art by David Lawrence

This is a graphic novel story that’s part of the larger prose novel series titled Mercy Thompson. Mercy Thompson is the main character of this super natural series and her special power is the ability to transform into a coyote. This does mean she’s a werewolf, there are plenty of those in this book, but there are also vampires and other fae. She is in her 20’s or 30’s and is interviewing for a teaching job in a new town but ends up flipping burgers and working in a mechanic’s shop for a while. In this new town her secret ability is discovered by the local werewolf pack, which is having a territory war with another pack, and Mercy becomes entangled in this plot. In the end the two alphas of the packs fight it out. It was a decent standalone story that was readable to me even though I knew nothing of the series at all before I read it. If you like werewolves and or vampire fiction, then this is for you. I think it’d also be fun to read in October for Halloween to get in the spooky mood, although it’s not really frightening. There is blood, violence and some partial nudity; when she transforms from coyote to human her clothes don’t just appear back on her like magic, same for the werewolves, so it’s not a comic for kids. If you really like this, you should try out the rest of the series (there are ten novels so far).

[ official Graphic Novels page on the official Patricia Briggs web site ]

Recommended by Kristen A.
Gere Branch Library


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