Moon Called by Patricia Briggs
Published by Ace on 2006 January 31
Genres: Fantasy, Paranormal
Pages: 289
Format: Audiobook
Source: Borrowed from Public Library
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Mercy Thompson is a shapeshifter, and while she was raised by werewolves, she can never be one of them, especially after the pack ran her off for having a forbidden love affair. So she’s turned her talent for fixing cars into a business and now runs a one-woman mechanic shop in the Tri-Cities area of Washington State.
But Mercy’s two worlds are colliding. A half-starved teenage boy arrives at her shop looking for work, only to reveal that he’s a newly changed werewolf—on the run and desperately trying to control his animal instincts. Mercy asks her neighbor Adam Hauptman, the Alpha of the local werewolf pack, for assistance.
But Mercy’s act of kindness has unexpected consequences that leave her no choice but to seek help from those she once considered family—the werewolves who abandoned her...
For my 4th or 5th Audiobook, I picked Mooncalled by Patricia Briggs to listen to and oh boy, I am glad I did because first and foremost, the narrator was wonderful. As someone who just started her Audiobook journey, I have a hard time listening to Audiobooks since English is not my native language, thus, accents can be confusing and my understanding through hearing is simply programmed to understand TV shows, English-dubbed animes, movies, and songs. Being focused for large part of time on a narrated text is something that I really have to learn because you know, I love growth.
So anyway, before I start yapping motivational stuff here, let me tell you why I picked Mooncalled for my audiobooks-to-listen-to. Once upon a time, I did buy an e-book of Mooncalled owing to the fact that a lot of my blogging friends who are into the paranormal reads are gushing about it. Let’s not also forget that it has a lot of raving reviews in Goodreads despite the uh, somewhat tacky cover. Unfortunately, when I started reading the book, I just didn’t feel buying what Patricia Briggs was selling so I ditched it and moved on with my life. This month, however, while I was reviewing my Kobo account, I saw and remembered that I actually bought it so I thought that maybe this is the right time to give the book a chance. And so I did. But instead of reading it, I opened my Libby App and borrowed it from a Public Library.
And well, I liked and enjoyed it. Mooncalled may not be as charming as the other werewolf books I’ve read over the years, but it certainly has its own brand of charm. Patricia Briggs managed to craft an original world where werewolves and other preternatural creatures normally walk the earth. In Moon Called, we are introduced to our plucky heroine, mechanic Mercedes Thompson, who, although is not a werewolf, is hiding a mysterious secret of her own. She’s an easy character to like as she is simply like your mature, no-nonsense, reliable, determined friend who will always be there for you no matter what.
Mercy’s meeting with a lone and newly-turned werewolf was where our story started because days after meeting the said werewolf, she found him dead on her porch. And things went haywire after that. While surprise and twists are not the best assets of Moon Called, its well-executed plot, fast pacing, and delightful mythos of the world are superb. Briggs laid out the details in increments all throughout the book that following the story of Mercy and her werewolf boys and girls feels leisurely. Of course, it helped that the narrator is just so skillful at storytelling that the different voices she created (heavens, there’s many of them) made it easier for each one to be associated with a certain character. I thought that I would have a difficult time identifying the voices of Mercy, Adam, Samuel, Bran and the other characters but thankfully, Lorelei King proved to be an adept in capturing the attention and understanding of her listeners.
Listening to Moon Called only took me two days with breaks in between, of course. But I am glad that I gave it a chance on Audio because it was a new experience, one that truly delighted me. So now, I’m off to borrow Book 2.