Fair Game

Fair Game

Patricia Briggs

First published 2012

8.18.1 / 10
Score out of 10108 ratingsConfidence 42%: this much of the score is the readers’ own
  • NYT bestseller · 1 week on the list, peaked at #6

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Our view

“Fair Game” sends the werewolf couple Charles and Anna to Boston, where the FBI is hunting a serial killer, and makes a satisfying mystery of it. The killer’s victims include the preternatural, which puts the pair themselves in danger. Some readers who love the series welcome the new characters this third “Alpha and Omega” novel brings in. Others guess the culprit and the outcome early and rank the book below the earlier volumes.

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About the book

It is said that opposites attract. And in the case of werewolves Anna Latham and Charles Cornick, they mate. The son—and enforcer—of the leader of the North American werewolves, Charles is a dominant Alpha. While Anna, an Omega, has the rare ability to calm others of her kind. When the FBI requests the pack’s help on a local serial-killer case, Charles and Anna are sent to Boston to join the investigation. It soon becomes clear that someone is targeting the preternatural. And now Anna and Charles have put themselves right in the killer’s sights...

Description: publisher’s blurb via Hardcover

Reading order · Alpha and Omega

Full order & progress →
Score per volume7 volumes on a timeline, 2007 to 2021 · Best-rated volume: Wild Sign
  1. Alpha and Omega
    Alpha and Omega2007 · 88 ratings
    7.97.9 / 10
  2. Cry Wolf
    Cry Wolf2008 · 170 ratingsStart here
    7.87.8 / 10
  3. Hunting Ground
    Hunting Ground2009 · 123 ratings
    8.08.0 / 10
  4. Fair Game
    Fair Game2012 · 108 ratingsThis book
    8.18.1 / 10
  5. Dead Heat
    Dead Heat2015 · 101 ratings
    8.08.0 / 10
  6. Burn Bright
    Burn Bright2018 · 92 ratings
    8.08.0 / 10
  7. Wild Sign
    Wild Sign2021 · 74 ratings
    8.18.1 / 10

Where the score comes from

The sources average 8.3 across 108 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 42% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Fantasy average of 8.0. That is how 8.1 comes out.

SourceAverageRatingsWeight
Hardcover8.3108 100%

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