Silver Borne by Patricia Briggs

Finished this book two nights ago. The only regret I have, is that I finished it so fast. I instantly wanted to read the next in the series unfornatly there is no next in the series. The next in the series isn;t due out until the Spring of 2011. Bummer. I sat there thinking of what book I wanted to read next. I have about 7 in the to-read pile. But none of them were calling to me at the moment. Honestly I wanted a good werewolf or shape-shifter book. I grabbed a Laurell K. Hamilton book off the shelf in an attempt to re-read. It didn't go well, ten pages in and I had laready put the book down. Not that I don't love hamilton's books. It just wasn't what I was looking for.

I picked up Shadow of the Jaguar, which is one of the Primeval books I purchased recently. Side Note: Primeval is one of my favorite shows. Just finished Season 3, with Season four not due out till January 2011 :(. I finally settled on Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: Dawn of the Dreadfuls. Which is the prequl to Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. But back to Silver Borne.

Briggs writes an excellent book. Her characters are believable and realistic. the thing I love most about Mercy is her ordinariness. Not in the way her character is or anything like that, but in how she is just a normal person. She's a VW mechanic. She doesn't do anything like work for some agency that would get her into tricky situations or anything like that. Well maybe she isn't too normal she is a shapeshifter that can turn into a coyote. So she's fairly normal. And of course in Briggs world there are vampires, fae, werewolves, and ghosts. Thats kinda what I look for in paranormal books. How well do they fit in with our world.

For example, both Hamilton's series are set in our world, but in a parallel universe type dead. My other favroites series, The Sookie Stackhouse books, and The Mercy Thompson/Alpha and Omega books are also set up this way. And they all have the "it's still our world, just slightly tweaked". That's what makes a good book for me. And of course the plot line has to be good. I can't stand a boring book or one that doesn't make any sense with itself.

I'm trying to write on here more often. If not just to write, then to relive some stress. I like thinking things out. I like reading books and comics, drawing, and watching movies. And I like to talk about them. Unfornatly not many of my friends like to do the same, or are interested in the smaes things as me. I still love them. I just need somewhere to talk about the things I like.

I have discovered Twitter is an awesome tool to talk to people that have the same interests as me. It lets me talk to people without getting to invovled. Say not as much as facebook or myspace. Also, there are alot more comic orientated people on twitter. Which makes me happy. And trust me, on my list of important things, me is number one.