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A review by sidnilayne
Fair Game by Patricia Briggs
challenging
dark
sad
1.0
I have to preface this by saying - I love the Mercy Thompson books. Mercy, Adam, and all the other characters in the books are fascinating and well-written. But when it comes to Alpha & Omega, with Anna and Charles, the story falls short for me.
This book is no exception, it fell the shortest for me. There were so many trigger warnings, and unlike the way it was handled in Iron Kissed (Mercy's Book), I do not think it was handled with the same amount of grace here. It is used as a tool to make the story harder to handle and to create the big drama between the Fae and the humans. It was cruel and stomach-turning.
I was able to handle the trigger of sexual assault and rape when it came to Anna's prequel story, the way she handles it in books 1 and 2, and the way it was written about in Mercy's book. What I can't handle is using it to make a story worse for the sake of making bad guys even worse than they already are. And on top of that, to use children as victims of rape and murder is worse.
It was then made worse and I had to put the book down because the characters made gross decisions - including a witch licking a child's dead body, Anna/Charles having sex (more detailed than other books) around other people in public while searching for a missing child, etc.
This book was essentially a bad plot filler for me, to create future problems for Mercy, I do not think I will be continuing with this series, and will stick to the Mercy Thompson books.
If I had seen that there were trigger warnings to this extent, I would have skipped this book, or not read the series at all.
This book is no exception, it fell the shortest for me. There were so many trigger warnings, and unlike the way it was handled in Iron Kissed (Mercy's Book), I do not think it was handled with the same amount of grace here. It is used as a tool to make the story harder to handle and to create the big drama between the Fae and the humans. It was cruel and stomach-turning.
I was able to handle the trigger of sexual assault and rape when it came to Anna's prequel story, the way she handles it in books 1 and 2, and the way it was written about in Mercy's book. What I can't handle is using it to make a story worse for the sake of making bad guys even worse than they already are. And on top of that, to use children as victims of rape and murder is worse.
It was then made worse and I had to put the book down because the characters made gross decisions - including a witch licking a child's dead body, Anna/Charles having sex (more detailed than other books) around other people in public while searching for a missing child, etc.
This book was essentially a bad plot filler for me, to create future problems for Mercy, I do not think I will be continuing with this series, and will stick to the Mercy Thompson books.
If I had seen that there were trigger warnings to this extent, I would have skipped this book, or not read the series at all.