Review: Wild Sign (Alpha and Omega Series Book 6) by Patricia Briggs

Wild Sign by Patricia Briggs
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Leah’s Past Comes To Light

This book is part of a continuing series and won’t make much sense without reading the previous books. I recommend them, they are good, go read them first.

I love Patricia Briggs writing and have done so since I read her first Mercy Thompson book, which I bought in an actual bookshop rather than clicking a button. We have a long history together, filled with adventures, love, friendship, beauty and pain and though I’m never truly disappointed, some books are better than others. It’s the nature of the relationship between the author and the reader. The book is the place where life experiences and dreams of the author and reader meet together and sometimes they mesh into something perfect, but at other times they rub each other the wrong way a little. This book, for me, was of the perfect variety.

Charles and Anna have been sent to look into a missing town. This time they have Tag with them too, which gives an added dimension to their adventures. It’s no hardship for me because Tag is an awesome character that I love reading about. In this book, we actually get to understand him a little better as we live inside his head a little bit. Tag is chosen because magic behaves strangely around him and Bran knows magic is probably involved.

The place they are going to, Wild Sign, is on some land that Bran bought Leah, it’s the land where they met and he made her a wolf and his mate. In this book, we finally hear the story of how that came to be and it’s worth the wait. Leah is actually pretty integral to this story and we learn so much about her, who she was and how she has come to be the way she is. She’s an even more interesting character than I ever suspected than I expect anyone suspected.

This story has white witches, black witches, potential gods and Coyote thrown in for good measure. I loved every page and couldn’t stop reading until the last paragraph. It was gripping as always. The characters are incredibly detailed, which is to be expected when the author has spent so many years honing them. The world-building is rock solid, again which is to be expected after so many years. The plot was amazingly captivating. It wove so many interesting strands together to create a dazzling cloth that I couldn’t look away from.

If you haven’t read this series and you want to see an example of a really great urban fantasy writer at the peak of her craft, this series is a great one to choose. It’s also a great example of an MFC who is strong physically and emotionally and knows when to bend in order to not break. Anna is one of the strongest MFC I’ve come across and she isn’t foremost a fighter. She is a listener, a nurturer and a friend. She gets the answers she needs by being interested and kind and unravelling difficult subjects with delicacy. She relies on her husband for his strength of arms, but also the strength of his love for her. She feels certain and solid because she is sure of her place at the centre of Charles’ world. She is a very unusual hero and I love her because of it.

This book made my Sunday disappear in a puff of smoke. It’s why I waited so long to read it because I knew I wouldn’t be able to draw out the process. I knew it would be over the same day I started it. It’s also why I did the re-read of the entire series. Now I just have to wait for a while for another book

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