Night Broken

Yet another terrific story with lots of hart braking moments. Read brilliantly yet again by Lorelei King.

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Every one a winner

Each book has a stand alone story but it is better to read them in order. The background builds into a full and complex story which is exciting and fun.

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Good but not great

My least favourite out of all the Mercy Thompson books. There was just too much annoying Christie and not enough of the characters we love. It was based around the dynamics of a troublesome ex interfering in the relationship between Adam and Mercy which is not only frustrating but annoying; and considering Christie's lack of redeeming qualities it's hard to believe anyone would side with her making those who do very difficult to like or respect.

I do think though this book sets up some potential interesting future storylines for Tad, The grey lords and the Stefan/Wuulfe dynamic and also Honey.

I would prefer to get rid of Christie from future books and Arielle needs to be put in her place she's just too antagonistic, and doesn't seem to have the packs best interest at heart, she has her own personal agenda which conflicts with it. Neither are very likeable or respectful people. I don't know if I believe Adams second would stay with Arielle if she's just so much drama for nothing, all the time he seems to be too chilled a personality for it.

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Not my favourite

Not my favourite book of the series so far. The reason was Christy I couldn’t stand that woman and am hoping she doesn’t move to be more local as she is threatening to do further away would be good. Saying that without her there wouldn’t have been a book and as I really enjoyed it I shouldn’t really complain.

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Mercy back on Audible.co.uk and doesnt disappoint

No idea why Audible UK has books 1 to 3 then misses 4-7 before resuming with book 8 but its really annoying, especially as audio versions read by Lorelei King do exist! just not for UK download.

This book is part of a sequence and will make a lot less sense if you haven't read/heard the previous ones so dont start here or jump here from book 3 as you will have no idea whats going on with Cayote, the walking stick, whats happened to the Fae etc.

Now to the story. If you have read previous books you should know what to expect and it follows the same basic formula with a few twists

Adam's ex wife appears in this book and I didn't really find her character believable, just too manipulative and scheming and I cant believe the others would welcome her like they appear to. Fortunately she is only a means to get the real baddie into the tri-cities and the real action with Mercy and the Wolves attempting to save the world from a psychotic paranormal killer is as gripping as always.

Lorelei does an excellent job reading the story and I cant imagine anyone else doing the voices, In particular Mercy's and Adam's are just perfect. Just one small annoyance when she has problems with the Canary islands pronunciations but its only one page.

A few new characters are introduced to the story which keeps things fresh, I especially liked Gary Laughing Dog who I hope we see more of in future books.

Shame its not a bit longer but its well worth a credit.

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one of my faves in the series

4.5⭐️ I love this series and how this installment dealt with the complexities of pack dynamics. Admirable how Mercy continues to put Jessie before Christie’s petty dramatics.

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Great story, terrible performance

What would have made Night Broken better?

Replace the narrator and the whole experience might be instantly better.

What didn’t you like about Lorelei King’s performance?

It was the mispronunciations that made it unbearable in the end, along with her failure to understand the required emphasis in a sentence and finally compounded by my disagreeing strongly with her representation of the first-person narrator.

The Mercy series has always thrived with supernatural elements grounded engagingly in fact, mixed with romance and spiced with the charm of the relationships between the characters. Add a practical, realistic heroine and you've got a winner.

Unfortunately, the grating mispronunciations wreck the groundings of fact beneath the supernatural element (try listening to Tenerife pronounced 'Tena-Reef-EY' 7 times in a couple of minutes), whilst the narrator's total failure to understand the jokes means that most of them fall flat (until you think about them later, and realize what was actually being said).

For her representation of Mercy, I can imagine this may be my personal preference, but I find it hard to believe in the usually practical and earthy Mercy Thompson when her voice is portrayed as petty and wheedling.

Thus robbed of three elements which make the Mercy Thompson series so strong, I found myself listening in order 'to finish' rather than enjoying it by about the halfway point.... and have now given up. I'll be finishing the paperback instead.

You didn’t love this book--but did it have any redeeming qualities?

The actual story is pretty engaging. Whilst Mercy is far from 'at her best' in this novel, her flaws still make her delightfully real as a character. Not my favorite MT novel so far, but worth the read.

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