Cry Wolf

By: Patricia Briggs

Narrated by: Holter Graham

Length: 10 hrs and 3 mins

Publisher's summary

Anna never knew werewolves existed until the night she survived a violent attack...and became one herself. After three years at the bottom of the pack, she'd learned to keep her head down and never, ever trust dominant males. But Anna is that rarest kind of werewolf: an Omega. And one of the most powerful werewolves in the country will recognize her value as a pack member—and as his mate.

©2008 Patricia Briggs (P)2008 Penguin

Critic reviews

“Fans of the vampire series by Charlaine Harris and Mary Jane Davidson will also enjoy Briggs' fantasy adventures.” (Booklist)

Great Book

I have always enjoyed books by Patricia Briggs they are always interesting little hidden parts that make the story more interesting I hope somebody else will enjoy this book as much as I did.

Good story but not Great story

Narrator was good, there were some parts where you have to go back to make sure exactly who's supposed to be talking because the different characters feel blended in. I felt like this story was hastily put together and 4 hrs would've been enough to say it all. The book leaves you with a lot of unanswered questions, unexplained issues and frustratingly bland characters.

With no spoilers, this whole book is 1 non complex adventure that the main character is thrown into and after all the fluff has a very anticlimactic ending. There's no personal development only trauma and fear, they don't explore Anna's growth or explain who and what she really is. This book almost makes her seem dumb and her wolf weak. Some time was given to the secondary characters but it felt almost wasteful with how one of them ended up after so much potential was lost.

It's a book worth reading or hearing once, but unless the series is heavily discounted I'll be okay with just this one.

Anna realizes her strengths

This story picks up immediately from book 0.5 Alpha and Omega.
Anna and Charles have just returned to Montana and he’s still recuperating from being shot with silver bullets. Their wolves are able to connect and mate, but not their human sides, as Anna has only begun to recover from her abuse. Anna accompanies Charles into the mountains after a rogue werewolf, only to find its a witch who’s been trailing after the Moor. It takes 5 of the wolves to take down the witch and her black magic before she can take over the pack.
Graham does an OK job of narration.

Amazing story but read prequel first!

I love the alpha and omega series but I really recommend reading the prequel story from shifting shadows before reading cry wolf it clarifies the entire story. But this book is awesome and understandable without the prequel. I give it two thumbs up

Just what I wanted

I had been looking gfor a new auther and haven't had any luck, until now. This is just what I wanted and look forward to reading the rest in the searies.

I enjoyed every minute of it.

I’m a fan of the Mercy Thompson series, therefore I was somewhat familiar with the some of the characters. The story held my interest. The narrator did an excellent job. I look forward to the next book in the series.

Fantastic story line of witchcraft and romance

Well written for a genre that sometimes gets to fancy full this actually sounds like it’s a possibly we are clues in before the rest of humanity finds out

Love Patricia Briggs books!

I have downloaded two of Patricia Briggs books and love them both. SHe has a way of holding your attention with her words. I highly recommend her books if you like Paranormal books!
Brenda from Oklahoma

So Glad I Started This Series!

This story was fast paced and exciting. I could barely stop listening to it to eat. It turned out to be so much more than the paranormal romance that I was expecting. The romance in this series is heavier than in Mercy Thompson, but it still managed to to weave a good story around the romance while allowing for character growth and exploration--especially exploration of Anna's Omega status. And this Omega thing, while interesting, still feels a little shaky. It's only the first book, though. However, I do feel that Anna as a character is explored in greater detail than Charles in this book. Maybe it's because Anna has so many more issues to get over than Charles who really worries more about how Anna will perceive him since he is the enforcer of the pack and seems a bit vapid at this point because Briggs seems to be holding on to that "Stoic Indian" stereotype. I am pleased with Anna's personal development. I was afraid she was going to turn too much into a special snowflake like Anne Bishop's Meg Corbyn in Written in Red. (I loved that book, but c'mon!) However, Anna became surer in herself. She didn't grow out of all her timid nature, and as an Omega wolf, she'll likely be more on the calm side in this series. She is allowed agency, though. She pushes herself, and when it's too much, she pulls back. I don't expect her to go from abuse victim to snarling badass, but I do appreciate what Briggs did with her. Also, I'm hoping later books will tell us more about some of the other members of this new pack, as it's mentioned throughout the book that Bran's (the Marrok and Charles' dad) pack is made up of werewolves with various issues such as Asil who never got over his mate's death and wants death and Sage whose past is hinted at as being abusive. Bran is the glue that keeps his pack sane, and you just get the feeling that he takes in the strays for their own safety.

The narration was a bit "meh" for me. It wasn't bad, but I don't feel like enough was done to distinguish voices. Most of the men sounded the same with the exception of Tag, who was described as having a high voice that belied his big size, and Asil, who looked Middle Eastern but, since he'd spent some time in Spain, sounded like Antonio Banderas' Puss in Boots. The women weren't too much better with only Sage really standing out because of her thick Southern drawl (that I found a little laughable as a Southerner myself). I will continue to listen to the books since I didn't dislike the narration. Holter Graham just might be the type of narrator that has to grow on me.

Being as this is about the pack that Mercy was raised in, I feel like I should be reading this side by side with those books. Part of me does want to take up the task of rereading the first book and continuing that series, as well. I look forward to reading more of Charles and Anna's adventures and watching them grow as a couple.

Excellent!

urban-fantasy, werewolves, witches, ptsd, relationships, mercyverse, series

Come sideways into the Mercyverse. This is a side series of the Mercy Thompson books. Charles is a foster brother several hundred years old, and Anna is his very recently found mate. While Charles and Anna are trying to get used to each other, a crisis arises in the Montana mountain area that they call home. The publisher's blurb gives hints and there is no need for spoilers. Just read it for yourself and get caught up in the world of the werewolf.
Holter Graham is perfect as narrator for this branch of the books.