A review by craftyhilary
Wild Sign by Patricia Briggs

adventurous dark tense slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Plot
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.5

I fear this may be the end of my Patricia Briggs phase. The last several books (both about Mercy and about Anna and Charles) have been progressively weaker. The plots are sluggish and the prose is flabby. I have a long history with these characters, but they seem to become less well-defined with each story. This one in particular bothered me, because
it felt like a cheap and not very believable strategy to make Anna’s prior abuse a major plot point yet again. To then add on a whole rape/forced impregnation plot line was exceptionally gross. Oh, and a child trafficking plot line, which I completely forgot about till after I read other people’s content warnings.
. The other big issue for me was Leah. She has been presented as such a cold, unreadable, and irredeemably crummy person for the entire series, so I was not in any way prepared to view her sympathetically. That took a lot of the bite out of the book (not intended as a werewolf pun). I apparently completely forgot
that something bad happened with Sage and now she’s dead
. I’m still not sure why that was brought up, though, since it wasn’t essential to the plot. I’m sad, because I’ve loved this universe and I’ll miss these characters, but they are just no longer who they once were, and maybe it’s time for me to let them go. 
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