Mercedes "Mercy" Athena Thompson is a fictional character and the protagonist of the Mercy Thompson series, written by Patricia Briggs. Adam Hauptman (husband, mate, and lover).Disclaimer: I purchased this book from and this review is my own opinion and not a paid review. Her ability to make it through a tough book like Iron Kissed just makes me love her that much more. I am completely blown away by her talents as a storyteller. Start with book one, learn who Mercy is and fall in love with her and her wolfs. If you are new to this series do not start with this book. If you are a Mercy Thompson fan please be warned that Iron Kissed is heartbreaking. There is so much more I could tell you but I won’t. We learn a lot more about Ben, which makes me love this British pain in the backside wolf. We learn more about the Fae and the powers they hold. It was a turning point for many storylines for Mercy. Even with all that happened Iron Kissed was a good book. I don’t like it when authors make their character suffer like this and I just hope that it doesn’t affect Mercy’s future. But if anyone can come out the other side stronger it will be Mercy. It hurt so much to listen to what Mercy went through. I had to power through the ending of this book. I'm glad I listened to it, but it isn't something I want to listen to again. The bottom line: I'm going to stick with the series, and my respect for Briggs and King as artists has gone up exponentially. I'm hoping future books will make Adam more interesting, and re-introduce some of the characters from previous books, like the child werewolf and Adam's friend Christiansen. At least the awkward, obligatory-feeling love triangle was resolved. Adam remained a ManlyMan(TM) with no major traits other than being scary/dominant/overprotective, so Mercy's relationship with him feels clumsy. I find Ben one of the more compelling supporting characters, in contrast to Adam, who she didn't really flesh out. That said, I really appreciated the philosophy that Briggs used to frame the events (ie, being supportive, not blaming the victim), and I loved how she developed the supporting characters, especially Ben. Given that I reacted so viscerally to this book, even though I have never experienced anything like it, I would suggest that someone with PTSD from surviving rape, assault, or child abuse mentally prepare themselves before listening to this book. The last book I read that has affected me like that was Kafka's "Penal Colony". She evoked the terror and horror of the themes so well that they became real, as did King, such that I couldn't enjoy many parts of the book. It takes an extremely skilled author to work with the themes in this book, so mad respect to Briggs for so deftly handling them. I love this series, I love Mercy, I love the world, but this book was hard to listen to.
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