Book review: Blood Bound (Mercy Thompson #2) by Patricia Briggs

Number of stars: 2 out of 5

Genre: Urban fantasy, Paranormal fantasy,

Edition: E-book

Synopsis:

Mechanic Mercy Thompson has friends in low places – and in dark ones. And now she owes one of them a favor. Since she can shapeshift at will, she agrees to act as some extra muscle when her vampire friend Stefan goes to deliver a message to another of his kind.

But this new vampire is hardly ordinary – and neither is the demon inside of him.

My review:

Quite a lot of cheese in this 2nd installment of the series. And unnecessary drama.

Another reviewer I admire here on Goodreads put my feelings into words quite well when they said this book did not pass the Bechdel test. Agreed.

Mercy seems very confused as to what she wants and her whole “I’m a independent woman and I don’t like to be controlled by anyone” message gets lost every time she has an idea but then backpedals and ends up giving in to a man.

Also the trope Everyone For Some Odd Reason is in Love with the Heroine is dominant in this book. We already have an annoying and rather lukewarm love triangle between Mercy and two main werewolves, but now a 3rd character ends up kissing her “passionately” in an awkward scene?

It just reads very weird… I’m not feeling the romance or any excitement. Things are happening TO Mercy, not the other way around.

Hum. Just something to think about.