Hunting Ground

Hunting Ground, along with Patricia Briggs other werewolf books, draw many parallels, for me, to the spanking world. One problem that comes about sometimes for werewolves is that they cannot come to terms with being a werewolf and they go crazy.


In book two of the Alpha & Omega series Anna & Charles the main characters of the series are headed to Seattle to meet with the Alphas of the European packs to discuss the coming out in public of the werewolves. Anna and Charles are newly mated/married and are still adjusting to each other. While Charles is handling the negotiations for the Wolves to come out in public, Anna is dealing with all of the Alpha testosterone that’s flying through the air.At the conference are werewolves from across Europe — Russians, Italians, the British lord Arthur, and the savage Beast of Gévaudan, Jean Chastel. Warring opinions and old grudges (plus Chastel’s general savagery) cause plenty of tension between the various groups. Charles finds that while Anna’s Omeganess eases some of the conflict, her fear at being around all the dominant males also has it’s own challenges. He sends her off with a bodyguard (Tom and his blind mate the witch Moira) to go shop. Anna is not thrilled but as she likes Moira she agrees to go with some misgivings.
While shopping Anna, along with Moira and Tom, are attacked by a gang of vampires using werewolf magic and tactics. Then a couple of attendees at the conference are murdered as well, one by the vampires and the other by a person(s) unknown. Now the fragile peace between alphas starts to unravel and fae magic starts to manipulate them — and to save his beloved Anna, Charles must uncover who would do all this. Anna in turn must help to save Charles.

There are many twists and turns in this novel to keep a readers attention. Patricia Briggs juggles many characters and sub plots in very smooth way.

A quote from the book I really like is *"To function, most wolves have to make their wolves obedient, if not completely subservient. After a while, the wolf spirit is reduced to part of the man’s spirit." It reminds me of the fetish world in a lot of ways. You can’t let it control your life or it destroys your life. However if you let it become part of you and accept it, it can make you whole and complete. In the book sometimes those struggles are much more visible than they are when dealing with a fetish, but the book is interesting to read in that light.


*Quote from Patricia Briggs Hunting Ground