 | Title: Mercy Thompson: Moon Called, Volume One
 Sexual Content: Semi nude depictions of Mercy Rating:
Good - A fun read with minor flaws. Maybe read an excerpt before buying. |
Description
Five Mercy Thompson novels have topped the New York Times best-seller list, and her premiere graphic novel did the same. Now Patricia Briggs' heroic shape-shifter returns to comics! Mercy Thompson inhabits two worlds without truly belonging to either. To the human inhabitants of the Tri-Cities she's an oddity, a female mechanic operating her own garage. To the town's darker residents, werewolves, vampires, and fae, she's a walker, a last-of-her-kind magical being with the power to become a coyote. Mercy warily straddles the fine line dividing our everyday world from that darker dimension... 'till a boy, mauled by vicious werewolves and forever changed by the attack and on the run from those who committed the crime, appears at her door. Now her two worlds are about to collide! Outnumbered and out-muscled, can Mercy possibly save the boy... or even herself?
Review
I’m not usually a graphic novel fan. I’m too impatient to take everything in and tend to gobble down the text and turn the page with out really taking in all the illustrations. It’s a bad habit that I can’t seem to break. But this was the first graphic novel I’ve read on my iPad and that made all the difference. I could restrict myself to one panel at a time and absorb both the text and the illustrations. I’m still not a complete convert to this medium, but I am learning to appreciate it.
I read the MOON CALLED novel years ago, so it was nice to revisit and refresh my memory about Mercy, my favorite coyote shifter. The story is told a bit out of order, which I can understand from a graphic novel perspective, but I was a little surprised at the depictions of both Sam and Bran. They looked so different from what I’d been imagining that it threw me. I did love the violence that was captured here. The books deal with a lot of violence, but it doesn’t have the same impact as seeing, for example, the werewolf attack on Mac in the beginning. Powerful stuff.
If you haven’t read MOON CALLED yet, I’d recommend starting there before picking up this graphic novel as there isn’t the same character development here and the story is liberally abridged. But for fans of the series it’s a fun new was to re-experience this series. Volume one takes us up until Mercy, Adam, and Sam are leaving the Marok and heading back to the Tri-Cities, and we do get a bonus story at the end which shows how Mac was captured and turned that was never explained in the original novel. I’m already planning on picking up volume 2.
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So we can read the galley on our iPads, but now that I want to buy it I can't find eBook versions of these graphic novels *anywhere*. Anyone know where I should be looking?
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