Raised by Wolves - Jennifer Lynn Barnes

I have been reading so much garb'age' (it sounds better if you say it french-like) lately I have been completely uninspired to write....

That was until I read Raised By Wolves.

I won't lie, I am only halfway through and if I have any icomplete sentences or other silly errors in this post it is because I stayed up half the night reading half the book before forcing myself to go to sleep. I honestly haven't been this into a book since Twilight. I am not comparing it to that series, but my eagerness to finish this book is comparable. Such as.. Can I get away with reading this at red lights? What about My desk? Haha.

It didn't start out strong and I was really worried I wasn't going to like it, in the first chapter the author spends a lot of time discussing from the main characters point of view, her relationship with the alpha. It's like ok, we get it, your thisclose and he's 'cool' get on with it. BUT -- she quickly recovers and the story is amazing so far and I'm jealous I don't have the talent to write anything this mesmerizing.

I can't help but think it's eerily similar to the Mercy Thompson series though. Eerily. Did Patricia Briggs take on a YA pen name?

Silver Borne (Mercy Thompson, Book 5) - Patricia Briggs

If I haven't said it before, I'll say it now. The Mercy Thompson series starts out slow in the first book or two, but it really gets engaging after that. The fourth and fifth book have especially kept my attention, and since I haven't reviewed all of the books, I don't want to give anything away in this one except to say that while Mercy has made her choice between Samuel and Adam, Brigg's still manages to keep things interesting and she is managing to get wittier with every book.

In this series is constant drama between the vampires, werewolves and fae, and Mercy somehow gets on everyone's bad side, which is unfortunate for her since she's a mainly harmless shifter (coyote).