Silence Fallen by Patricia Briggs

My rating: 4.5 of 5 stars

Category: Adult
Genre: urban Fantasy
Content: Strong Language, A brief mostly non-descriptive sex scene 



Attacked and abducted in her home territory, Mercy finds herself in the clutches of the most powerful vampire in the world, taken as a weapon to use against alpha werewolf Adam and the ruler of the Tri-Cities vampires. In coyote form, Mercy escapes only to find herself without money, without clothing, and alone in the heart of Europe...

In this tenth book in the Mercy Thompson series, Mercy is abducted by vampires and taken to Europe. Going into this I knew the change of location could be a bad thing. I don't always like when authors change location in the middle of a series, but it worked well here and this ended up being one of my favorite books in the series. I especially liked getting to know the inner workings of the seethes and packs there.

We finally meet the infamous vampire Iacopo Bonarata who has been mentioned in previous books, and he didn't disappoint. In many ways he is comparable to a Mafia leader, only he's also a vampire so that makes him even scarier! He's the kind of character that loves to manipulate people and situations, so you never know what he might be up to. This can be touchy territory for me as I really dislike when stories do this the wrong way and everything hinges on a character behaving a certain way, because we all know you can't really predict how someone will act, and it's really unbelievable when they do everything exactly according to plan. I think Briggs did a pretty good job here of not falling into that as Mercy ended up being very unpredictable even if a couple of others weren't.

This book showed how resourceful Mercy is and how clever she is as well. I really enjoyed reading as she got herself out of the situations she was put in. I did feel like it was mentioned a few too many times how Mercy could take care of herself and rescue herself from the situation she was in. Adam always had faith in Mercy's ability there, but I didn't need to read it multiple times. Plus there isn't anything wrong with needing to be rescued sometimes, after all Mercy had to rescue Adam once.

Some other interesting things happened in this book. For one, Mercy learns more about her ability to see ghosts and what that entails, and also how to use this ability. Briggs also always includes some form of mythology or folklore in each book, and this time it was the Golem of Prague. And of course Mercy would run into the golem while taking in the sights in Prague on her first night there. How could she not? She's Mercy.