Review: Dead Heat

Dead Heat Dead Heat by Patricia Briggs
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

I really enjoy the Alpha and Omega series. After struggling with Mercy Thompson for so many books and still not knowing how I feel, it is a relief to get the wonderfully rich stories and characters with rough edges that Patricia Briggs is so good at, without running into the walking doormat that is Mercy Thompson.

Anna and Charles pull me in with their relationship, which has only gotten better over time. They each have their strengths and their faults, and I love the way they know those things about each other. This novel adds an issue common to all relationships: kids. Adding their own supernatural layer to this common problem only makes it better.

I was happy to learn more about Charles, and more about Arabian Horses. The story did fall back into Patricia Brigg's perpetual problem with pacing and concluded in the last forty pages very quickly, but stuck the landing more elegantly than the early MT novels.

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