Glad you are enjoying the series!

It’s because I can’t get the grin off my face after reading this newest Alpha & Omega book. I’m so pleased that your review of the first two books made me seek them out and I soooooooooo loved this newest one!

On your list of to be reviewed?

The way he wooed her, protected her, but didn't dominate her. Yes, he's an uber alpha male, but with her he shows his humanity and that is so incredibly fabulous.

Briggs is really good at characterization and there’s a vividness to her writing that just draws me in. I like her books as well as I like any romance novel, and I generally prefer romance as a genre over anything else. (I don’t even miss the sex [much].) She’s one of the writers that I think of as Romantics in the art movement sense.

PS. “Bran is a little too cold” – In the Mercy books, I found him fascinating but wasn’t really won over until Cry Wolf where he has more “screen” time and we get to see his internal motivation.

But for the moment, I love Charles more. I love his blend of tenderness and ruthlessness. I have a thing for assassin heroes, and Anna and Charles’ relationship is a lot like a marriage of convenience too, in the way they got sucked into it by their wolf aspects in a day and a half. I love the way the conflict in their relationship is set up — not just that Charles is patient with Anna’s need to take things slowly, but that his patience costs him and exacts a toll. The way he reigns in his wolf’s possessiveness for her is soooo romantic to me. And then there is his moral conflict in regards to the killing he does for Bran. The fact that he hates it but still does it makes him so much more interesting than the majority of heroes who kill without any regrets.

I can't say he managed to steal the book.

Well, I’m a sucker for heroes who are deceptively beta-like. :) Then there’s the marriage of convenience, not to mention the beserker issue. (Remember Warprize?) ;) You get the idea. Don’t get me wrong, I love Charles. But Bran pushes more of my buttons.

I loved the book and Charles, but IMO Bran stole the book from him at the end. I hope she writes about Bran and Leah soon. I really disliked Leah before (because of how she treated Mercy), but now I totally get her and want her to have a happy ending. Kudos to Briggs for turning an unsympathetic character into a potential heroine. Also, major points for the Beowulf tie-in.

Okay, I love the relationship between Charles and Anna. The way he wooed her, protected her, but didn’t dominate her. Yes, he’s an uber alpha male, but with her he shows his humanity and that is so incredibly fabulous. One of the reasons I’ve avoided shifter stories in the past is that whole alpha male thing just skeeves me the hell out. I just want to whack them upside the head.

This book is a ROMANCE, in the truest sense of the word. Charles and Anna are the most romantic couple I’ve read in a long time. This book had a courtship. You can see this couple falling in love which is essential in a romance novel for me.

Next thing is, though it’s a paranormal, it’s mostly about characters and their story. Yeah, all this freaky paranormal stuff is going on, but it’s not so distracting that you lose the core of the story.

I’m intrigued as hell by Bran and want to see his story ASAP. He is really an interesting character.

I could go on and on, but must go off and check out Briggs’s backlist. I usually can’t abide first-person, but I might just have to try some of them anyway.

Agree with you about Charles and Anna — and I so want to read more about them! I also liked that the book felt complete, and loved Walter, so we are in agreement on just about everything!

First impressions, Bran makes a lot more sense now, and I will love to see more of him, and it even makes Leah interesting (the romantic in me wants to see them resolve stuff)…

The love story of Charles and Anna was really handled well, unlike so many romantic novels where the couple get from point A to Point Z very quickly, they are still working out issues at the end of the book… I thought it rather refreshing..

One of the things I like best about this book, is that while its obviously going to be a series, the book felt complete, at a good stopping place at the end… This has become a HUGE issue for me with some authors these days, to the point that I have quit reading a few of them because of it.. I hate a book that ends in a cliffhanger (by the way, thanks Ms. Briggs for putting a couple of pages of the new Mercy book it, it helped clear that little annoying cliffhanger at the end of Iron Kissed, lol).

I liked most of it, my problems were small and I cried like a mutha at the final fight scene.. Damn.. I loved the character of Walter..(thats all I am going to say on the subject, forest gump)

BTW, Keishon has a great interview with Patricia Briggs up on her blog.