David Gillon

Patricia Briggs Mercy Thompson series

I completed my re-read of the ones I own, so:

Moon Called
Blood Bound
Iron Kissed
Bone Crossed
Silver Borne
River Marked
Frost Burned
Night Broken
Fire Touched
Silence Fallen
Plus the anthology Shifting Shadows which mostly isn't about Mercy. 

I'm a couple of books behind so will be catching up on at least one of them - the other was still priced over what I'll pay for an ebook last time I checked.

The advantage of re-reading a long series is seeing how (or if!) the character grows and how relationships change. Mercy definitely grows during these, she's not quite a loner when Moon Called starts, but she's not too far off - she's lived in the Tri-Cities as a mechanic for a decade at that point, is largely ignoring her supernatural heritage except for occasional runs as a coyote, and has perhaps five friends, plus frenemy Adam the hot Werewolf Alpha. By the end of Silence Fallen she's Adam's wife, second in the pack and making decisions that will affect all the supernatural species on a national level. It's very much a case of growing into her heritage as Coyote's daughter and foster daughter of Bran the werewolf king - imagine if Coyote and Machiavelli had a lovechild together.

It's also clear that Mercy's growth rubs off on those around her, her friends Ben and Honey are both moving up the pack hierarchy, the Grey Lords of the Fae have been reminded why it's a bad idea to piss off Zee, her one-time boss (and one time forger of Excalibur), and even the local vampire queen Marsillia is more secure than she's been in decades, possibly centuries.

The one thing that bothers me is the way Briggs seems to like beating up on her heroine - over the course of the series Mercy's had multiple fractures and burns, on several occasions severe enough they've only been fixable by divine intervention. It's almost unusual for her not to finish a story in plaster or in hospital.

Elizabeth Bear

The  Don Sebastian de Ulloa stories:

The White City
Garrett Investigates
Ad Eternum

And I know I re-read New Amsterdam, the main collection, relatively recently, but my Kindle isn't cooperating in telling me when. I also bounced off Seven for a Secret , which I hadn't read, around about Christmas, which was more down to me than the book. There are links to that in one of the stories in Garrett Investigates and in Ad Eternum, so I'll be taking another swing at it in the near future.

Ad Eternum is the new one to me, it's a comparatively short novella in which wampyr and former great detective Don Sebastian de Ulloa travels to New York in 1962, shortly after the death of the last member of his court through the series, Dame Commander Abigail Irene Garrett, commander of the Detective Crown Investigators and great detective/forensic magician in her own right, who by my reckoning, and extrapolating from the timeline in Garrett Investigates, lived to somewhere about 115.

Sebastian is travelling under a name which tells you he's still beating himself up over the death of the first of that court in 1903 and debating with himself whether it's time to walk into the light. However he soon falls into the company of a coterie of magicians (and one conman), and then meets with an old acquaintance, who also finds herself needing a new future. This isn't really a mystery story, more cycles starting anew. I enjoyed it, and it's a good end to the Garrett/Ulloa stories, but definitely not the place to start!

Currently Reading: Most of the way through Snowcrash, by Neal Stephenson, which I haven't read in long enough the only things I really recalled are the protagonist's name: Hiro Protagonist (seriously), and that he's a pizza delivery driver for the Mob, while being simultaneously a hacker and the self-proclaimed greatest swordsman on the net (it helps if you wrote the software).