Moon Called

It was wonderfully done and thought out. World building was spot on. Mercy is a well done heroine. Stubborn and flawed but caring and curious about the people around her.

This series is amazing. I read the first three back to back in 2 days, pretty much ignored the rest of the world and all of her other books are pretty much the same.

Mercy is one of my favorite female characters, I love the personality she tosses out at everyone and the relationships she has with the other characters in the series.

Highly recommend.

Yessssssssss, I remember why I tagged this series as one of my favourites. Love it!

Worldbuilding:

All scenes and environments were clear well detailed and you could tell that the author really did pay attention to getting all the info across (about the world Mercy lives in) in a very smooth and unhurried way.

Character development:

All the characters at this point are still pretty mysterious :)

We know a fair bit about Mercy and her family. She isn't a damsel in distress (by far) but she knows when she can't do it on her own and needs help. It might sting a little, but she asks for it. I really like, I mean, it makes her feel real and believable. Add to that a good dose of humour and some strong values and voila, you've got to love Mercy!

Adam, the local Alpha (actually one of the strongest in NA) wants you to think he's all badass and such, but his humour and little gestures make him more than just another Alpha male. But if he gets to goad Mercy, just so much more fun for him. We don't know all that much about him or any of the werewolves really, but the few things we did pick up on, lets us know he has dealt with a lot in his past, Jesse being one of the bright spots in it.

There are so many characters that I want to know more about, so I'm pretty lucky this is a long series ;) (goooooooo Warren!!!)

Pacing and flow:

It was a smooth and enjoyable read, I had a hard time putting it down.

The story had a good balance between all the action and conversation. If you'd think that the first book of this series was just setting the stage and not that much else, you'd quickly find out that is soooo not the case. It's more like: throwing you in and have fun ;)

The book:

The book itself was well written with no (noticeable) errors. There is so sex described (if that is important to you).

The book has 289 pages, spread over 16 chapters.

All in all:

As I'm reading (and partially re-reading) this series together with my Goodreads group SOS (Serious Overload of Series), I kinda have to wait for the next book... I'm not sure if I'm that strong, to be honest :D

But yeah, this book reminded me why I love this series so much, even from the first instalment you get a feeling for the depth the characters have (even the support cast) and Mercy is just someone you can only root for.

My rating is less a rating of the single book and more about my attempt to read this series. It starts out alright, but swiftly devolves into a rather tepid and uninteresting love triangle between two cardboard cutouts. I went in hoping for a strong female protagonist and left somewhere in the third book.

Love the characters but it was a little purple prosy and hand wavy.

Re-Read: 21 Jan 2021 // ✮✮✮✮✮

( as a part of

SOS' Mercy Thompson series read )

First Read: Sept 2006 // ✮✮✮✮☆

"Livin's easier than dyin' most times, Mercy girl. Dance when the moon sings, and don't cry about troubles that haven't yet come."

This re-read, fifteen years later, was a lot of fun. I'd forgotten a lot, but I was surprise by all I'd remembered. Couples things that struck me: ➊ On my first read, I liked Sam. Now, not as much, certainly not for Mercy. That might be because

I know she's with Adam and they fit. And, as much as I might empathize with Sam's reasons for wanting to mate with Mercy when she was younger, I don't like how he was lying by omission about them.

➋ I miss Stefan, a lot! I already missed him in recent installments, but now that I've reconnected with "early Stefan", I miss him even more. I hope he's more present in future installments.

I had heard a lot of recommendations for this series, and I was worried that I would be disappointed by my high expectations. Happily, I wasn't. It's a fun, fast read with characters I was happy to follow. The plot... eh. It was a little convoluted, and when the big reveal happened, I actually had to go back and re-read those few pages, because my reaction was "...what?" Maybe a touch anti-climactic. But that honestly didn't impact my enjoyment of the book, because this is one of those books you read out of affection for the characters and their interaction with each other, not because it tells some jaw-dropping story. And I totally don't mean that in a condescending way. It's a book version of chocolate. Nom nom nom...

It was fun! Fun enough that I already started Blood Bound. :-)

Re-read, March 2017:

I just finished book 10, and wasn't ready to leave this world, so I jumped into a series re-read. I loved this book so much more the second time around... probably because I just adore Mercy, Adam, Samuel, Warren, Kyle... the whole cast. And watching them dance around each other, before their relationships have firmed up, is great fun.

Re-read June 2024

You know the thing that stands out to me the most in this re-read? It's Adam. He's a sneaky, sneaky man. It was subtle, but after 14 books of this series and feeling like I know these characters as if they are good friends of mine, I can see that sneaky, clever wolf hunting Mercy. I don't know when, exactly, he developed a thing for her, but he was circling her well before this first book. Wolves really are patient hunters.

This could have been great but she added Christian moralizing and "preaching" to everything and has no understanding of other religions to the point of absurdity.