Mercy Thompson Series - by Patricia Briggs

I am in that awful stage of waiting for the next book in a series to come out. The above series is a ... hmmm... how to describe it ... it's a werewolf, vampire, shapeshifter book ... but not a romance, like so many of the same type. I have really enjoyed the series - the author was one I had read before; she does a lot of fantasy type writing and is very good. This series is about a girl who is a VW mechanic. She is a shapeshifter (she can shift into a coyote) and was raised by werewolves (because her mom, who had a one-night-stand with a native american rodeo rider, didn't know how to deal with finding a coyote in the crib where her baby had been and upon learning of werewolves from her lovers' tribe, shipped her daughter there to be raised).

She is a very independent character - very likable. Not a weak female at all. I like that she is a mechanic (one of the long-running jokes in the book is about her name - Mercedes. Friends joke that she is "Mercedes, the VW mechanic.") I like that she is self supporting and is so much bigger in what she does than her small self seems to be capable of.

I recommend the books, and would love to discuss them here. However, from viewing the posts, I'm not sure that any of you are into this type of thing, so will wait and see if any of you know the books or not.

There are 5 published Mercy Thompson books so far. Waiting on the next one ...