{"id":1261,"date":"2009-09-16T11:01:12","date_gmt":"2009-09-16T11:01:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/wordpress\/?p=1261"},"modified":"2025-04-05T10:18:12","modified_gmt":"2025-04-05T15:18:12","slug":"fantasymystery_-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2009\/09\/fantasymystery_-7.html","title":{"rendered":"Fantasy\/Mystery: &#8220;Cry Wolf&#8221; and &#8220;Hunting Ground&#8221;, both by Patricia Briggs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve talked <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crankymonkeybutt.com\/movabletype\/mt-search.cgi?IncludeBlogs=2&amp;search=mercy+patricia+briggs\">a LOT about Patricia Briggs here<\/a>, all of whose books I love, particularly the Mercy Thompson series.<\/p>\n<p>These books take place within the same universe, concentrating on events in Bran&#8217;s pack instead, particularly his son Charles. While I think they discussed the concept vaguely in the Mercy books, these books also focus on Anna, who is an &#8220;omega&#8221;, a sort of &#8220;powerful submissive&#8221; who can stand up to alphas in a way no other wolves can.<\/p>\n<p>Just as with the Mercy books, the action is great, the romance is great, they feel very real and believable and oh my god I cannot wait for her to write another one!!!!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve talked a LOT about Patricia Briggs here, all of whose books I love, particularly the Mercy Thompson series. These books take place within the same universe, concentrating on events in Bran&#8217;s pack instead, particularly his son Charles. While I &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2009\/09\/fantasymystery_-7.html\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,27,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-readin","category-recommending"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1261"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3779,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1261\/revisions\/3779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}