"Winter Lost" By Patricia Briggs

 Review by Terrance McArthur

Mercy Thompson is a mechanic. She fixes Volkswagens. She can change into a coyote. She is married to Adam, the alpha werewolf of a pack in the Pacific Northwest. Mercy and Adam are at a lodge in Montana. It is snowing. A lot. Winter Lost is the fourteenth book in the series by Patricia Briggs.

Those are the basics. Doesn’t tell you much, does it? Let’s try again.

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Mercy Thompson, coyote at will. Adam Hauptman, leader of the werewolf pack. Vampires. Goblins. A dog. Ghosts. Frost giants. Green men (not the little kind from outer space, the Celtic kind). Snowstorm. Stolen harp/lyre/stringed instrument. Silver spider. A half brother. The fae. Hot springs. Ragnarok, the end of the world. Wolves. Car crashes. A wedding. Spells. Police. Prosthetics. Resort staff. Lake spirit. Witches. Breakfast.

That tells you a little bit more. Here’s a little bit about the author.

Patricia Briggs, born in Montana in the Sixties, living in Eastern Washington, has unleashed thirty or more books into the reading world, including the Mercy Thompson, Alpha & Omega, Raven, Hurog, and Sianem series. She started writing high fantasy in the Nineties and switched to urban fantasy in 2006. Mythologies of many cultures fuel her stories; Winter Lost includes ideas from the Norse, Native American, Celtic, Slavic, and ancient Greek traditions, plus a healthy dose of Briggsian imagination. She can look at a thermal pool of steaming water and think “What—or who—would live there?”

Here's a little backstory from the series, and how it relates to this book.

In the Mercy Thompson book before this one (Soul Taken), an artifact with awareness ripped open Mercy’s soul, gave her headaches and awareness of what was going on in other hearts. She still suffers the effects of that attack on her psyche, and Mercy seeks healing from many sources. Some offer help, some cause her more trouble. Gary, her half brother, is in trouble, and solving his problems throws her and Adam into the middle of troubles with world-ending complications.

Final thoughts:

You might want to backtrack to Soul Taken, but that would mean you’d have to wait before you could immerse yourself in the joys of Winter Lost, a solid entry in a well-written series that continues to offer surprises. Choose wisely.

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Terrance V. Mc Arthur is newly retired as a Librarian in Fresno County, California. He is also a storyteller, puppeteer, magician, and maker of pine needle baskets. On top of that he writes stories that range from rhymed children's tales to splatterpunk horror. He's an odd bird, but he's nice to have around.

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