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Storm Cursed, by Patricia Briggs, Ace, 2019, $27, hc
T'S KIND OF funny. Once upon a time Patricia Briggs was a relatively new writer, first introducing us to her delightful coyote shapeshifter/auto mechanic Mercy Thompson back in 2006 in Moon Called. Thirteen years and many books later she's already a bit of a grande dame of the urban fantasy genre, and still producing quality stories in the field that she helped define.
And yes, I know. She wrote books before she introduced us to the Columbia Basin werewolf pack. They were secondary-world fantasies and undoubtedly very good, but I think even Briggs would agree that the Mercy Thompson series (and later the related Alpha & Omega series) is what she's best known for.
I see echoes of the tropes she...