
This one took me longer to read but mostly because life got busy and I didn’t have much time for it. The Mercy Thompson series has been one of my favorites for years and I love every single installment. The more Mercy and the Pack investigate, they realize that all the vampires in the local area have gone missing along with a few white witches. The mistress of the local vampire seethe calls on Mercy and the Pack to find Wulfe or the alliance between them will be broken. But when Wulfe goes missing, the Tri-Cities Pack is blamed. The vampire Wulfe has been stalking Mercy, seemingly harmless, for months. I’m still very interested in the Alpha and Omega series and the goings-on in Mercy’s world criss-cross with that one, so I feel like I need to keep reading these. Hang on, let's cross the streams and have everyone chant we believe in magic and it will all be ok.

The bad guy wasn't even all that scary and I still don't understand what sort of ex-Machina shit happened at the end that saved the day. There are all these awesome characters who AREN'T Mercy and Adam, and I would just love to read a book about any of them. It's like listening in on your parents having sex. Ok, maybe my grandma would find the stuff that Adam and Mercy say to each other funny or racy or interesting, but I just cannot with these two.

Which means more of their god-awful mating bond and his protective instincts and her calming influence and his growly comments that are supposed to be sexy but. Instead of a book about a cool vampire, it's more of the cringy Adam & Mercy show. You find out a blurpy little snippet about his past that explains why he's batshit, but that's the extent of seeing him in the book. So basically, there's no Wulf in this book. Something has happened to him, and it's up to Mercy & Adam to find out what before the pack gets blamed and a war gets started with the vampires.

He's this superstar vampire/witch/sorcerer with all kinds of powers, he's completely mental, and he's taken an interest in Mercy.
