Soul Taken, Patricia Briggs
Soul Taken, Patricia Briggs
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Soul Taken

Bestseller

Author: Patricia Briggs

Narrator: Lorelei King

Unabridged: 10 hr 33 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Penguin Audio

Published: 08/23/2022


Synopsis

Mercy Thompson, car mechanic and shapeshifter, must face her greatest fears in this chilling entry in the #1 New York Times bestselling series.

The vampire Wulfe is missing. Since he’s deadly, possibly insane, and his current idea of “fun” is stalking me, some may see it as no great loss. But, warned that his disappearance might bring down the carefully constructed alliances that keep our pack safe, my mate and I must find Wulfe—and hope he’s still alive. As alive as a vampire can be, anyway.  

But Wulfe isn’t the only one who has disappeared. And now there are bodies, too. Has the Harvester returned to the Tri-Cities, reaping souls with his cursed sickle? Or is he just a character from a B horror movie and our enemy is someone else?  

The farther I follow Wulfe’s trail, the more twisted—and darker—the path becomes. I need to figure out what’s going on before the next body on the ground is mine.

About Patricia Briggs

Montana born author, Patricia Briggs, has worked her way into a very successful author of fantasy novels. She chose to live mostly in the Pacific Northwest which is not typically the hotbed of authors, but she has managed to live a quieter life and still become a New York Times bestselling author. Her most famous series, Mercy Thompson and the Columbia Basin Pack, we're fictional residents of the area in which she resides, the Tri-Cities Washington.

From 1990 on, Briggs has published 17 novels beginning with traditional fantasy, then in 2006 moving to urban fantasy. A unique mark of her novels is that even in a series, each novel can serve as a stand-alone story without leaving the reader to wonder what happens next.

Briggs also writes the Alpha and Omega series, and they are set in the same environment as the Mercy Thomas series. The most recent of that series debuted in 2012, and came in at #4 on the NYT bestsellers list.

Briggs still lives in Washington state with her husband and children. They have a small herd of horses that they enjoy.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Anne on April 08, 2024

Is it just me? I was really excited to read about Wulf. He's this superstar vampire/witch/sorcerer with all kinds of powers, he's completely mental, and he's taken an interest in Mercy. Then Boom! He's gone. Something has happened to him, and it's up to Mercy & Adam to find out what before the pack g......more

Goodreads review by Rachel on July 01, 2022

4.5 stars! The vampire Wulfe has been stalking Mercy, seemingly harmless, for months. But when Wulfe goes missing, the Tri-Cities Pack is blamed. The mistress of the local vampire seethe calls on Mercy and the Pack to find Wulfe or the alliance between them will be broken. The more Mercy and the Pa......more

Goodreads review by Sheyla ✎ on September 15, 2022

I couldn’t click fast enough to start the new Mercy book. I love the Mercyverse and being back with familiar characters and a great story had me smiling. Did I sweat about what was happening? You better believe it. A Soul Taker is on the loose. It’s killing people with minimal magic. Mercy has an encou......more

Goodreads review by Maria on November 25, 2024

I can't believe I'm still reading this series! It is so rare for me to read a long series, one that at 13 is still on-going! But I love Mercy and the pack and by this point they could sit around playing video games and I'd want to read about them. Plus I met Patricia Briggs at RARE in Edinburgh in Se......more

Goodreads review by Niki Hawkes on August 24, 2022

Check out my Booktube channel at: The Obsessive Bookseller Briggs delivers yet another solid installment in the Mercy/A&O series. It started out a bit slow, but I love spending time with these characters so much that they could be doing anything and I’d probably want to read about it. Werewolf pack dy......more


Quotes

Praise for the Mercy Thompson series

“I love these books.”—Charlaine Harris, #1 New York Times bestselling author

“Patricia Briggs never fails to deliver an exciting, magic- and fable-filled suspense story.”—Erin Watt, #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Royals series

“Patricia Briggs is an incredible writer....I love hanging out with the amazing characters in this series!”—Nalini Singh, New York Times bestselling author

“The best new urban fantasy series I've read in years.”—#1 New York Times bestselling author Kelley Armstrong

“Mercy Thompson [is] one of urban fantasy's best-loved heroines.”—SF Site

“An excellent read with plenty of twists and turns....It left me wanting more.”—#1 New York Times bestselling author Kim Harrison, on Moon Called

“The world-building is incredibly lush....A fantastic urban fantasy adventure....A wonderful world to lose oneself in as a reader.”—Fresh Fiction

“Briggs' careful and layered building of both her world and her characters is an iron-clad guarantee of an outstanding read! Fans will love this one!”—RT Book Reviews

“Briggs continues to surprise and intrigue readers with Mercy's inventiveness and intuition under duress.”—Publishers Weekly

“Yet again, we see why Patricia Briggs is a master storyteller.”—Literary Escapism