#42 in Urban fantasy
Moon Called
- 308
- Pages
- about 6 h
- Reading time
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Our view
“Moon Called” opens the Mercy Thompson series with a likeable heroine: a mechanic and shapeshifter raised by werewolves yet never one of them. The novel has a whole supernatural society and its rules to lay out, and some readers need a while to settle into it before the story takes over. Light, adventurous and funny in tone, it is the obvious first step into a fourteen-book series.
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About the book
THE FIRST MERCY THOMPSON NOVEL! Moon Called is the novel that introduced Patricia Briggs’s Mercy Thompson to the world and launched a #1 bestselling phenomenon... Mercy Thompson is a shapeshifter, and while she was raised by werewolves, she can never be one of them, especially after the pack ran her off for having a forbidden love affair. So she’s turned her talent for fixing cars into a business and now runs a one-woman mechanic shop in the Tri-Cities area of Washington State. But Mercy’s two worlds are colliding. A half-starved teenage boy arrives at her shop looking for work, only to reveal that he’s a newly changed werewolf—on the run and desperately trying to control his animal instincts. Mercy asks her neighbor Adam Hauptman, the Alpha of the local werewolf pack, for assistance. But Mercy’s act of kindness has unexpected consequences that leave her no choice but to seek help from those she once considered family—the werewolves who abandoned her...
Reading order · Mercy Thompson series
Full order & progress →- Moon CalledThis book
7.87.8 / 10 - Blood Bound
8.08.0 / 10 - Iron Kissed
8.18.1 / 10 - Bone Crossed
8.18.1 / 10 - Silver Borne
8.18.1 / 10 - River Marked
8.08.0 / 10 - Frost Burned
8.18.1 / 10 - Night Broken
8.28.2 / 10 - Fire Touched
8.18.1 / 10 - Silence Fallen
8.18.1 / 10 - Storm Cursed
8.18.1 / 10 - Smoke Bitten
8.18.1 / 10 - Soul Taken
8.08.0 / 10 - Winter Lost
8.08.0 / 10
Where the score comes from
The sources average 7.8 across 430 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 75% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Urban fantasy average of 8.0. That is how 7.8 comes out.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Library | 7.9 | 22 | 5% |
| Google Books | 9.0 | 28 | 7% |
| Hardcover | 7.7 | 380 | 88% |
Frequently asked
How long is Moon Called?
It has 308 pages — shorter than 93% of the ranked books in Urban fantasy.
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