false 11922 13 It was in <I>Bitten</I>, Kelley Armstrong's debut novel, that thirty-year-old Elena Michaels came to terms with her feral appetites and claimed the proud identity of a beautiful, successful woman&#151;and the only living female werewolf. In <I>Stolen</I>, on a mission for her own elite pack, she is lured into the net of ruthless Internet billionaire Tyrone Winsloe, who has funded a bogus scientific investigation of the &#147;other races&#148; and their supernatural powers. Kidnapped and studied in his underground lab deep in the Maine woods, these paranormals; witches, vampires, shamans, werewolves&#151;are then released and hunted to the death in a real-world video game. But when Winsloe captures Elena, he finally meets his match. 14289 book 2003 Stolen (Women of the Otherworld, #2) total:2781|5:931|4:1166|3:576|2:93|1:15| 2781 11248 3815 184 3 2 false false Fri Jul 17 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 17 18:38:39 -0700 2009 Sun Jul 19 09:17:00 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 2 false false Sat Jan 10 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Jan 06 09:10:32 -0800 2009 Sun Jan 11 09:21:11 -0800 2009 Bitten.

Elena is investigating someone selling info about werewolves but finds her contacts to be a pair of witches instead, wanting to warn her about a secretive organisation who are abducting creatures of the otherworld: witches, shamans, half-demons, w...more...]]> 5 1 false false Thu Aug 13 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 03 07:56:05 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 15 08:18:36 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 2 false false Mon Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2005 Wed Jul 09 21:46:28 -0700 2008 Thu Jul 10 09:26:58 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Oct 29 08:42:52 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 29 08:43:15 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false true Wed Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 29 19:14:28 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 30 23:50:37 -0700 2009
I think what made this not as good as...more...]]> 5 0 false false Sun Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Oct 30 12:03:37 -0700 2009 Sun Nov 01 13:19:35 -0800 2009 Bitten, Elena Michaels is back living with her pack in New York, helping to hunt down dangerous "mutts" and helping to keep the pack safe. On a scouting expedition to find information about non-pack wolves, Elena is contacted by rep...more...]]> 3 0 false false Mon Nov 02 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Oct 29 08:20:52 -0700 2009 Mon Nov 02 09:22:02 -0800 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false true Tue Feb 10 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Feb 09 15:09:19 -0800 2009 Tue Feb 10 23:26:05 -0800 2009
Now in this second novel, Stolen, we lose a lot of her feelings. I would be reading along in t...more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Jul 05 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Jul 05 02:18:56 -0700 2009 Wed Jul 08 02:25:10 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Thu Mar 12 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Mar 05 14:17:00 -0800 2009 Mon Mar 30 20:20:30 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 2 false false Sat May 30 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Apr 23 21:14:01 -0700 2009 Sat May 30 19:29:49 -0700 2009
The problem with writing a book in the first person is that the reader only gets to know what the main character knows. Therefore, if you want your reader to know something, the narrator either has to know it, or find out during the course of the book.
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In this sequel to Bitten, Kelley Armstrong maintains the intensity, pace & suspense that I thoroughly enjoyed in Women of the Otherworld Book 1.
The reader is introduced to an assortment of supernatural beings in Stolen, the new c...more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Apr 08 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Jan 10 09:11:52 -0800 2009 Thu Apr 16 13:33:40 -0700 2009 Bitten.

As with Bitten, the protagonist in Stolen is Elena, the only female werewolf in existence - female werewolves can only be made, not born, and rarely survive being bitten in the first place. ...more...]]> 4 0 false true Tue Oct 14 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri Oct 03 03:20:33 -0700 2008 Tue Oct 14 04:07:22 -0700 2008 1
This book again featured Elana Michaels, the werewolf from the first book. In this installment Elana goes to a meeting to investigate some informatio...more...]]>