It also influences how they handle the events that confront them when they are sent out to find the rogue werewolf that is killing people and threating to expose the werewolves to the rest of the world. Now the human halves are left to and navigate through their insecurity with each other and how each person's violent and troubled past affects their reactions within the relationship.

The wolf sides have already declared them mated. Charles and Anna are possibly my favorite 'paranormal' couple. This series is more romantic than Patricia Brigg's Mercy Thompson series but still has all the suspense, action and great plotting that fans of Ms. She said that knowing Anna and Charles's background completely changed her viewpoint and made the book 100 times more cohesive and enjoyable. I got one friend to stop listening to Cry Wolf and read the short story Alpha and Omega first. Some reviews as well as a few friends comments said they enjoyed the book but spent a lot of time playing catch up or feeling liked they were missing something vital. It was written and published before Cry Wolf and Chapter 1 takes off within hours of Alpha and Omega's ending. If you're just now beginning this series I cannot stress enough that you should listen or read the novella first. As of now Audible has not added that story to this 'Series listing'. The novella Alpha and Omega was finally released in audio format and added to Audible on 2-12-13. So I'd recommend these books for people in Mercy-withdrawal, but in my opinion they're not a good entry into Briggs's larger body of work. After having more context for the characters and their actions, I did enjoy this book and the sequel a lot more. However, I gave this book another listen after I read the novella and listened to the first couple of Mercy Thompson books.

It seems like so many popular werewolf books are just an excuse to construct a world in which women are powerless victims who need to be rescued/redeemed by strong, virtuous men. Anna seemed like a very stereotypical 'survivor of abuse' character, which I didn't find very interesting, and if you don't know anything about Charles other than what's in this book, his strong-silent-stoicism isn't very interesting either.

Since it's set in the same world as the Mercy Thompson series AND there is a preceding novella which I hadn't read, I didn't have any context for the characters. This book really did nothing for me the first time I listened to it, and I still don't really think it stands alone very well.

Cry Wolf by Patricia Briggs