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Blood Bound, by Patricia Briggs, Ace Fantasy, 2007, $7.99.
"Alpha and Omega" by Patricia Briggs, in On the Prowl, Berkley, 2007, $7.99.
I really liked Briggs's earlier book Moon Called. In this new one, her continuing character Mercedes "Mercy" Thompson says, "Sometimes I wish I was an average citizen...."
I'm glad she's not.
Instead, she's a confident, smart, shapeshifting coyote mechanic, who hangs out with werewolves, vampires, and other inhuman beings.
In the past decade or so there's been a virtual tsunami of books with vampire, werewolf and/or witch protagonists. They usually have a bit of a romantic slant (some edging into the erotic) and the protagonists are invariably solving crimes of some sort while coming to grips with being a vampire/ werewolf/witch/inhuman, or dealing with a boyfriend or love interest that is so afflicted.
When I put it like that, I might sound a little condescending, but I don't mean to...