false 11918 24 An addictive, deeply enjoyable thrill ride on the frontier of the feral and feminine...a debut novel of astonishing imaginative power from the future queen of suspense. Elena Michaels slips out of bed, careful not to wake her boyfriend. He hates it when she disappears in the middle of the night, and can't understand why any normal woman would crave the small hours of the morning, the dark unsafe downtown streets. But Elena's skin is tingling, the pent-up energy feels like it's about to blow her muscles apart; she can't put it off any longer. She loves to run at the edge of the city, but she doesn't have time to get there. She has to slink into an alley, take off her clothes and hide them carefully, and make the Change. Elena's trying hard to be normal. She hates her strength, and her wildness, and her hunger for food, for sex, for running in the night, for the chase and the kill. She wants a husband, children…even a mother-in-law. Or at least that's what she tells herself. And then the inevitable happens. The Pack needs her. The Pack she loves and hates is under siege from a bunch of disreputable and ruthless mutts who are threatening to expose them all, breaking all the rules that have kept them safe. The loyalty of her nature calls her home, and into the fight, which tests just who Elena is: the wild woman or the wistful would-be human. 2606334 book 2001 Bitten (Women of the Otherworld, #1) total:3752|5:1439|4:1371|3:729|2:154|1:59| 3752 15233 5807 472 5 19 false false Mon Jan 26 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Fri Nov 28 08:40:54 -0800 2008 Tue Jan 27 07:52:38 -0800 2009 Bitten must rely on grit and personality alone, because aside from having the...more...]]> 5 16 false false Sat Jan 03 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Mar 13 11:03:39 -0700 2008 Sat Jan 03 15:38:15 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5 11 false false Sat Jul 19 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri Jul 18 03:26:01 -0700 2008 Tue Jun 30 19:51:03 -0700 2009 2 more...]]> 5 4 false false Mon Dec 08 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 01 15:30:15 -0800 2008 Wed Dec 10 08:54:47 -0800 2008 Bitten having read nearly all of the other books in the Women of the Otherworld series. In fact, the books with Elena narrating are the only ones I haven't read. It was very interesting to read this one, knowing it was the first in the series and already knowing in broader strokes wh...more...]]> 2 3 false false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Mon Feb 11 10:29:45 -0800 2008 Mon Feb 11 10:30:27 -0800 2008 more...]]> 4 4 false false Wed Oct 29 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Oct 30 05:44:16 -0700 2008 Thu Oct 30 05:49:14 -0700 2008 rating 4 of 5
436 pp

This is the literary equivalent of eating potato chips. Not terribly filling or nutritious but lots of fun, and it sure is hard to stop once you get started. I have already read the author's third and fourth books, Dime Store ...more...]]> 5 2 false false Thu May 01 11:49:23 -0700 2008 Thu May 01 11:55:50 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 3 false false Sat Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2006 Sat Nov 24 14:01:46 -0800 2007 Sat Nov 24 14:02:14 -0800 2007
I found a new author I really dig. Kelley Armstrong has a series of books out with supernatural characters. I whipped through Bitten, Stolen, Dime Store Magic, Industrial Magic, Haunted and Broken in no time at all.

The first two and the last b...more...]]> 3 4 false false Mon Mar 16 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Mar 01 19:14:11 -0800 2009 Thu Mar 19 18:51:27 -0700 2009 1 more...]]> 3 1 false false Mon Feb 16 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Feb 16 07:42:13 -0800 2009 Mon Feb 16 07:55:10 -0800 2009 book six. I know.

I really liked about this book that both the hero and heroine were mildly fucked up, and the book and most of the characters knew that, and lived with it. Elena, the POV...more...]]> 4 1 false false Sat Nov 01 00:00:00 -0800 2003 Fri Dec 05 20:47:24 -0800 2008 Fri Dec 05 21:01:56 -0800 2008 4 more...]]> 5 1 false false Tue Aug 11 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Jul 13 12:40:42 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 15 08:19:30 -0700 2009 more...]]> 2 1 false true Fri Mar 10 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Tue Feb 03 02:27:04 -0800 2009 Tue Feb 03 02:28:38 -0800 2009 The plot is well built and well paced but characterization is far from being satisfying. This might not have disturbed me so much if it had not concerned the main characters. I am a...more...]]> 5 1 false false Sun Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sat Jan 24 17:33:18 -0800 2009 Thu Apr 02 15:08:30 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 1 false false Sun Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Fri Nov 07 10:43:46 -0800 2008 Mon Feb 02 13:24:02 -0800 2009
The story centres around the world's only female werewolf and her struggle between fitting in to the human world and accepting her werewolf nature.

Let's get the criticisms out of the way first. The writing itself is rather basic...more...]]> 5 1 false false Sat Aug 16 12:27:09 -0700 2008 Sat Aug 16 12:27:09 -0700 2008
Just how fantastic was it? Well, I read it in two days. That's unusual for me. I am u...more...]]> 4 2 false false Fri Apr 01 00:00:00 -0800 2005 Sun May 18 11:21:25 -0700 2008 Sun May 18 12:04:12 -0700 2008 Hmmm, I thought to myse...more...]]> 2 1 false false Tue Apr 15 06:27:06 -0700 2008 Tue Apr 15 06:46:42 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 1 false false Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Wed Oct 10 19:04:48 -0700 2007 Wed Oct 10 19:14:03 -0700 2007 Bitten is about Elena, a young woman coming to terms with being a werewolf. Unlike heredity werewolves, all male, she was turned, created by being bitten. She is torn between wanting to live a normal life among humans and the acceptance and comfor...more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Nov 26 10:47:16 -0800 2008 Wed Nov 26 10:47:21 -0800 2008 more...]]>