Wild Sign: So Many Missing Witches

SPOILER ALERT: Please be aware that this book review contains spoilers from Wild Sign by Patricia Briggs. This post is about my thoughts on the events and developments in the story. Please DO NOT read further unless you have read the book or don’t care if the major events are spoiled for you. This is also the sixth book in the series and might spoil events in previous books. If you want to read my spoiler free review, click here.

Wild Sign is the sixth book in the Alpha & Omega series, and it starts just as good as any other book in this series. Briggs peaks the interest by slipping us a hint of what our newest adventure will be about. Something is wrong with Leah, and her past seems to be coming back to haunt her once again. It becomes Charles’s and Anna’s job to discover exactly what her past is. Unfortunately, there are a lot of unknowns and a lot of witches missing from the small makeshift community camping at Wild Sign.

Leah is a character that we know very little about despite the fact that she is a character in both this series and Briggs’s Mercy Thompson series. It is nice to finally have a chance to add some more depth to her as we come to understand who she is and why she is who she is. Of the few female werewolves in the series, she is not the most pleasant one. Though by the end of the book, we see that there is a lot more to her than we were originally presented with. In fact, I had often just thought that Leah was a sour woman because of her loveless mating and hunger for a good position. Yet, we see that she didn’t choose to be a werewolf or Bran’s mate. She had a very rough human life that she chose to blow up in order to stop a monster from growing in power. She even thought she had killed her own son to end the monster’s reign.

It was very surprising to have all of these traumatic events revealed. Did anyone guess that Zander was her son? That completely surprised me. Plus, he was a walker. The only other walkers we have seen were related to Mercy’s adventures. Now, we are starting to see some overlap in areas that we haven’t before. Even Mercy’s dad, Coyote, makes an appearance. His role is very small in this book, but he does some very interesting things. He seems to eat whatever is left of the singer and decided to visit the witches’ cognizant garden. I have a feeling it will definitely come back one way or another.