I've missed reading Mercy Thompson series, and I also can't believe that Frost Burned is the 7th book in the series. While overall, this is a series I love (along with the Alpha and Omega companion series) I'll admit the last book left me not so sure of the state of the series. Well, Frost Burned turned that right around. It felt like the beginning of the series again. Really fresh. Maybe the long break between books was needed. 
 Frost Burned starts months after the end of River Marked. I think what felt so disjointed with River Marked was the fact that most of our usual characters were not present for the majority of the book. Frost Burned brings us back to the Tri-Cities and focuses mainly on the Pack, with some Fae and vampires thrown in too. 
 Mercy is completely healed from her injuries sustained in River Marked and she and Jesse are out shopping on Black Friday when suddenly, Mercy feels a jolt through the mate bond she shares with Adam. When she tries to get in contact with someone in the pack she can't find anyone. She comes to discover that the pack was taken. Of course Mercy, being the ever jumping into trouble coyote she is, is determined to find her pack and Adam. What she discovers is a plot more twisted than she could think. 
 I was immediately drawn into this storyline. I liked that Patricia Briggs finally brought us back to the werewolves. But I was a little disappointed that this storyline was resolved pretty quickly and we were moved even furthur into the conspiracy as to who could have orchestrated the mass pack kidnapping. It was because of this that I felt the story started to get a little confusing in places. I didn't know where Briggs was taking us and I will admit I thought that the result seemed a little pulled out of the air. I didn't really see a precedence for it, but it was still plausible. There were a couple of threads left loose I thought, but I don't know if this was because I was reading so fast caught up in the story and missed their conclusion or if they weren't there at all. 
 Even though there were a couple of things I had issue with overall I really liked the book. Like I said before, I really felt like we were being taken back to the beginning with this book. As a twist Patricia Briggs threw in a couple of chapters from Adam's POV. I really enjoyed this change of pace and I liked Adam's voice. It was interesting to get to know his thoughts. I oftentimes (with a first person POV story) find myself wanting to know what other characters (especially the hero) are thinking, I always find it a real treat when the author does things like this. I think it enriches the whole world they've created. 
 I will say that I missed seeing Bran and Sameul. Maybe their secondary story will show up in the next Alpha Omega book. I believe the Mercy Thompson series will soon be coming to a conclusion. If the next book is as good as this installment and so on, the series would end on an upswing, which would be really nice since it is one of my favorites. Until Then!