Review: Smoke Bitten - Patricia Briggs

Smoke Bitten by Patricia Briggs
My rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ stars

Smoke Bitten is book 12 in the Mercy Thompson series and I feel like I have been waiting forever to read it. Mercy is back and in more of a dilemma than usual. Not only have we got the Underhill turning up outside in her garden, we also have a new monster, rouge werewolves, a psychotic vampire and a tension between her and her hunky werewolf husband, Adam. Let’s break it down….at the end of the last book and their battle with the witches, everything seemed to be up in the air with Mercy and the pack.

In Smoke Bitten, we see that things still haven’t calmed down and even though Adam’s ex-wife Chrissy isn’t in this book, she still manages to cause issues between Mercy, the pack and Adam, with Mercy bang in the middle when she tries to act as a go between, between Jesse and her father. Enter a lot of things being said and Mercy being truly hurt by how Adam treats her. This seems to be a theme throughout this book and we as a reader see true vulnerability coming from her as she worries about her marriage and why Adam has been acting the way he has. (No spoilers….but that story was really cool, heart-breaking and different).

To make matter worse, Underhill has also opened right outside in the packs garden and we know that it isn’t going to go smoothly, especially when we find out that something evil has been released from there. You can’t speak its name as names have power, especially with the fae. The monster is also complex, devious and evil and we have to watch Mercy fighting it in reality and her subconscious too.

There is also a sub-plot going on with rouge werewolves who are trying to cause trouble for the pack, a psychotic vampire (Wulfe) whose endgame we don’t know and a plethora of characters who all have an opinion on literally everything.

This series just keeps getting better and better and even though there is a lot going on in this book, it does all tie together with a few story-lines being left open, hopefully to be answered in the next book? Secondary characters also help to make this book, from Ben, to Jesse and even Wulfe, everyone has a place and a reason for being in this story and I just can’t recommend this series enough. You may want to start with the first book though, just so you know who everyone is and what place they have in the story. I can’t wait to see what’s next for Mercy and Adam and the rest of the ‘Scooby gang’.

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