Patricia Briggs Fans discussion

Book 4 in the Alpha & Omega series is due for release on March 3rd. Roll on, March!

This series, like Mercy's books, is great in audio and I'm hoping Holter Graham continues as the narrator. I've gone to the Brilliance Audio page and it doesn't specify narrator. (It does, however, show March 3rd as auidobook release date so hoorah for no audiobook delays.)

Has anyone heard about who the narrator is?

No, but like you I'm hoping it will be Holter Graham, he is one of my favorites.

Still not available for pre-order on Audible. I just chatted with them and the Audible rep placed a request for me.

Brilliance audio still lists the release date as March 3rd but doesn't list narrator.

Patience is highly overrated.

binter wrote: "Still not available for pre-order on Audible. I just chatted with them and the Audible rep placed a request for me.

Brilliance audio still lists the release date as March 3rd but doesn't list n..."

I hear you, I'm stalking the book on their site. It seems like lately the books I really want don't show up until really close to release date.

Dead Heat is finally available for pre-order on Audible.
Holter Graham is narrating - great news for his fans.


http://www.audible.com/pd/Sci-Fi-Fant...

binter wrote: "Dead Heat is finally available for pre-order on Audible.
Holter Graham is narrating - great news for his fans.


http://www.audible.com/pd/Sci-Fi-Fant......"

Thanks for the notice!

Has anyone read it yet? After taking a break for over a year from Patricia Briggs books I read Night Broken and was reminded of just how fun her books are! I then saw that this one was out.

Jalilah wrote: "Has anyone read it yet? After taking a break for over a year from Patricia Briggs books I read Night Broken and was reminded of just how fun her books are! I then saw that this one..."

I have read Dead Heat twice. I loved reading it each time. I even got my mom into Patricia Briggs books by letting her listen to the Alpha and Omega series.

Jalilah wrote: "Has anyone read it yet? After taking a break for over a year from Patricia Briggs books I read Night Broken and was reminded of just how fun her books are! I then saw that this one..."


Dead Heat was awesome! There are some dark twists in it and at the very beginning it had me going 'Oh god no..' And no i will not spoil it by saying anymore! Its a good read, definitely.

Good to know everyone! I am looking forward to getting started!

Dead Heat was a great read! I think it's going to be one of my favourites.
I am glad I did not read it when my son was still little and in daycare!
What a nightmare! Those poor kids are not going to ever want to go back to one! I have a question regarding Miss Emerson: (view spoiler)[ Did she ever exist as a real human or was she always a camouflaged Fae? (hide spoiler)]

Jalilah, in answer of your question we can just guess. I think that she existed as a real human because she was not new to the daycare and because the fae was powerless and encarcelated by the Grey Lords before he started to attack again. I think that because he liked to hunt kids the most, he decided to replace someone that had access to lot of them. But, I'm just guessing and I read the book some months ago, so I may have forgotten something.

Jalilah wrote: "Dead Heat was a great read! I think it's going to be one of my favourites.
I am glad I did not read it when my son was still little and in daycare!
What a nightmare! Those poor kids are not going ..."

I believe Miss Emerson was a real person. As Flecha said, the fae was incarcerated and had his power stripped from him, until it was returned in order to begin the attack on humans. I agree that he replaced the principal because it made his job easier and it gave him access to the thing he desired the most.

Huh, I have never listened to an audiobook. I just don't think I could, really, because I like reading them too much to listen to someone else do it, and since I put my own 'voices' to the characters, in my head, it would probably ruin the book a bit for me >_<

JoshsAngel wrote: "Huh, I have never listened to an audiobook. I just don't think I could, really, because I like reading them too much to listen to someone else do it, and since I put my own 'voices' to the characte..."

Some audiobooks are duds, but I've listened to some amazing ones. The Spellman Files series is among the best, because I tried reading those after listening to the series and it's not as good. Davina Porter does an excellent job with the Outlander series as well, and Barbara Rosenblat is stellar at the Amelia Peabody mystery series and the other things I've listened to that she's narrated are also first rate. (Sorry, I'm geeking out over here.)

That said, I actually don't plan to listen to the Alpha and Omega series or the Mercy Thompson series because I like how everything is in my imagination, and a narrator can add a layer of interpretation I'd rather not have in this case.

Gail wrote: "JoshsAngel wrote: "Huh, I have never listened to an audiobook. I just don't think I could, really, because I like reading them too much to listen to someone else do it, and since I put my own 'voic..."

See, that's the problem I have, I always look for a book in written form, so I couldn't listen to someone read it because I've already formed my own 'voice' for each character. I sometimes think I'm waaay old fashioned because I don't even like reading books on kindle, though there are some things that aren't in print anymore and the only way TO read them is via kindle or a similar platform.

JoshsAngel wrote: "Gail wrote: "JoshsAngel wrote: "Huh, I have never listened to an audiobook. I just don't think I could, really, because I like reading them too much to listen to someone else do it, and since I put..."

If you want to try getting into audio books at some point, maybe try asking at the library? Then they can help you find a book you haven't read in print, and maybe also look at things like narrator reviews to make sure you're getting a good narrator.

Gail wrote: "JoshsAngel wrote: "Gail wrote: "JoshsAngel wrote: "Huh, I have never listened to an audiobook. I just don't think I could, really, because I like reading them too much to listen to someone else do ..."

Thanks for the advice. I may have to do that even if only to find out if I'd enjoy something like that or not. Can't know if I don't try, right?

Jalilah--I don't think that she was a "real" person. I think that the fae was always masquerading as her. My reason for this--Anna and Charles had the police checking for those who were gone during Thanksgiving, since that is when the fae were re-called by the Grey Lords. Also, there were many bodies found in the fae's "secret stash". And, if he/she had been someone else, I don't think they would have all been there. Also, the fae was able to make very realistic humoculi, and so he'd have been able to rotate who he was, simply be taking over one the position and job of one of those. Also, time is/acts different in Underhill than it does here in the more mundane world. (See Mercy's thinking only part of a single day had passed when she was in the Fairy Queen's court. Also, remember your fairy tales--Odd Thomas and all of it's variations.)

I just started rereading and there's a little something really early:

"Mackie was strong in her likes and dislikes. She liked Ms. Newman, who’d been her teacher last year and was Michael’s this year. She did not like the principal, the janitor, or Eric, one of her much older brother Max’s friends."

Tiny hidden foreshadowing? Perhaps support for the idea that the principal was never human?

The quotation was from the scene when the teacher was telling Chelsea that Mackie was having trouble with the little girl who turned out to be a fetch, before Chelsea starting getting mad and scary.

Gail wrote: "The quotation was from the scene when the teacher was telling Chelsea that Mackie was having trouble with the little girl who turned out to be a fetch, before Chelsea starting getting mad and scary."

The principal may have bene human at some time. Mackie is only 5 so has probably only been going for a couple years. But it would be interesting to learn about Eric. He was not mentioned and we know what happened to the other 2 people she did not like.

Ok, being more than a bit OCD (yes, I know, and I DO work on it, so it doesn't take over my life) I had to go and get my copy out of the Cloud (I have it on my Nook.)

First page, "The fae lord stalked back and forth in his cell of gray stone. Three steps, turn, four steps, turn, three steps. He could do it all day. Had, in fact, done it for two weeks.

So the bad guy fae hadn't been on the reservation the whole time (or else this is written immediately after the Fae declared themselves an independent nation.)

Gail wrote: "I just started rereading and there's a little something really early:

"Mackie was strong in her likes and dislikes. She liked Ms. Newman, who’d been her teacher last year and was Michael’s this ..."

Yes, this supports the idea that the principal had at been Fae for awhile.

Ann aka Iftcan wrote: "Jalilah--I don't think that she was a "real" person. I think that the fae was always masquerading as her. My reason for this--Anna and Charles had the police checking for those who were gone during..."

That is what I originally suspected too, especially because there was no mention of finding the real Miss Emerson. Then I started to wonder if I'd missed something. Had it been another author I would think the author had left it out my mistake, but Briggs is so great at making everything come together.

Ann aka Iftcan wrote: "Ok, being more than a bit OCD (yes, I know, and I DO work on it, so it doesn't take over my life) I had to go and get my copy out of the Cloud (I have it on my Nook.)

First page, "The fae lord sta..."

But he may not have been imprisoned in our realm, but in the Fae realm. Time is different between the two.