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Blood and Chocolate
Vivian Gandillon relishes the change, the sweet, fierce ache that carries her from girl to wolf. At sixteen, she is beautiful and strong, and all the young wolves are on her tail. But Vivian still grieves for her dead father; her pack remains leaderless and in disarray, and she feels lost in the suburbs of Maryland. She longs for a normal life. But what is normal for a wer...more
Paperback, 264 pages
Published
September 7th 1999
by Laurel Leaf
(first published August 11th 1997)
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**this is not a float - i have been ordered to edit this review to include something "necessary"
i was watching the runaways last week, and in the bonus-feature interviews, dakota fanning was all wide-eyed exclaiming how she was so excited to finally get to act in a period piece.
and i died a little inside.
but so this book, from 1997, predates twilight but somehow it involves a werewolf love story. WHAAAAAT??? (her previous novel, silver kiss, from 1992, is about a vampire - suspicious*) so, to da...more
i was watching the runaways last week, and in the bonus-feature interviews, dakota fanning was all wide-eyed exclaiming how she was so excited to finally get to act in a period piece.
and i died a little inside.
but so this book, from 1997, predates twilight but somehow it involves a werewolf love story. WHAAAAAT??? (her previous novel, silver kiss, from 1992, is about a vampire - suspicious*) so, to da...more
Just a note of warning: I didn't like Blood and Chocolate. I read it on a high recommendation from a friend and it bored me to tears. But I persevered, hoping it would get better. It didn't.
Our protagonist, Vivian, looks kinda like Megan Fox, only blonde. Vivian thinks of men like they're meat. Here are a few of her thoughts that we're privy to.
Our protagonist, Vivian, looks kinda like Megan Fox, only blonde. Vivian thinks of men like they're meat. Here are a few of her thoughts that we're privy to.
A female on the loose was a dangerous creature; she could challenge another bitch for a male she fancied. Some of those male eyes strayed to Vivian, too...more
It was a big day for incest yesterday with me. And not that I mean that I tracked down some closely related blood relatives to make out with, either. First it was How I Live Now and then I read Blood and Chocolate, a cautionary tale against werewolf in-breeding.
Did you ever read Bitten and find yourself wistful of their carefree lives, money, and culture? Well, meet the badside of werewolf culture. You know, the side where your teenage friend is shagging your Mum, and you Mum and someone else's...more
Did you ever read Bitten and find yourself wistful of their carefree lives, money, and culture? Well, meet the badside of werewolf culture. You know, the side where your teenage friend is shagging your Mum, and you Mum and someone else's...more
Update: In October I finished this book a third time. Turns out this is one of those books that gets better with every read. I'm going to go ahead and up the rating to four stars.
Blood and Chocolate was a book that I didn't totally like the first time around--I wasn't exactly sure how I felt about it, to be honest. It's well written but much darker than most YA fiction. Overall I felt positive about the story even though I didn't quite care for the protagonist, Vivian--she comes across as slutt...more
Blood and Chocolate was a book that I didn't totally like the first time around--I wasn't exactly sure how I felt about it, to be honest. It's well written but much darker than most YA fiction. Overall I felt positive about the story even though I didn't quite care for the protagonist, Vivian--she comes across as slutt...more
Oct 18, 2010
Mariel
rated it
2 of 5 stars
Recommends it for:
home is anywhere you hang yourself
Recommended to Mariel by:
I hope I'm happy now
The message of this book creeped me out the eff out. Stick with your own kind, people will never accept what is different. Blood and Chocolate is a hate crime of a book. I was liking it until then. The selfishness and sexualization didn't bother me. I didn't feel threatened by their differences. There was a nice parallel about kids who hang with the wrong crowd (I'd recommend reading Life Without Friends for a great ya story about a girl who hung with kids who go to prison for bullying and murde...more
This book is wrong on so many levels that I don't know where to start, and I definitely don't think it belongs in the teen section of the bookstore. Vivian, the main character and narrator, is far too calculating and sexual for a 16-year-old girl, I don't care if she IS a werewolf. She's also mean-spirited and nasty, and frankly, I didn't find much about her to like for a good deal of the book, which contains entirely too much sexuality and vulgarity. With the exception of Aiden, the human boy V...more
Mar 19, 2008
Gracie
rated it
5 of 5 stars
Recommended to Gracie by:
Linet Rabelo
Shelves:
childhood-favorites
I read Blood and Chocolate when I was 14 but it's stayed with me since. It was the first time a seemingly simple plot with overdone fictional monsters actually dealt with what it was to be human.
I hold much respect for Vivian, the protagonist. Yes, she does stupid things. But what teenager doesn't feel what she feels? Are we all not trying to hide a part of ourselves from the world? Don't we not fight with our parents and try to rebel for no real reason? Do we not take simple comforts for all t...more
I hold much respect for Vivian, the protagonist. Yes, she does stupid things. But what teenager doesn't feel what she feels? Are we all not trying to hide a part of ourselves from the world? Don't we not fight with our parents and try to rebel for no real reason? Do we not take simple comforts for all t...more
This book is a werewolf story, written way back in 1997. Vivian and her pack are trying to survive in a world where there are fewer and fewer places for those like her to live.Her mother's name is Esme! They have made a pact not to kill humans so that they won't be exposed. Someone in the pack has a taste for human meat and this has gotten the pack chased from New Orleans to West Virginia to Maryland. Living in a quiet suburb in Maryland, 16-tear-old Vivian finds herself longing for typical teen...more
Dec 12, 2008
Izzy Nickole
added it
Blood and Chocolate is a supernatural romance book about werewolves, in the Maryland suburbs in a town called Riverview. Annette Curtis Klause makes you feel as if you are right there with Vivian watching her life a year after her father had died.
Vivian Gandillon is a werewolf whose father had died in a fire. After his death the pack was leaderless and had to move to Riverview to live with Vivian’s uncle. Since her father’s death, Vivian does not get along with her mother.
Vivian goes to school...more
Vivian Gandillon is a werewolf whose father had died in a fire. After his death the pack was leaderless and had to move to Riverview to live with Vivian’s uncle. Since her father’s death, Vivian does not get along with her mother.
Vivian goes to school...more
Now, let me tell you a story about a girl that had a dream. This girl wanted something that everyone has been looking for. She wanted something that is, obviously, impossible; she wanted to read a good YA fantasy/paranormal book.
I know, Selena. I know. I might as well reached for the frickin' stars.
I really thought that this was a book that I was looking for. As you can see from my rating, it wasn't.
I'm just... I'm just going to write down a couple of quotes from this piece of shit thing bo...more
I know, Selena. I know. I might as well reached for the frickin' stars.
I really thought that this was a book that I was looking for. As you can see from my rating, it wasn't.
I'm just... I'm just going to write down a couple of quotes from this
Blegh..such a rad title! So much possible awesomeness! Yet Klause didn't pull it off. She had quite the story in her hands, but all I ended up with were vague promises and hints at something better.
Now Gabriel, ahh I think he had some potential. As in: rawr baby! Unfortunately he was pretty much condemned to the periphery. Not that it would've mattered all that much. Because the heroine, Vivian, had just as little luck escaping her cardboard persona. Klause spent a lot of time fuzzing about her...more
Now Gabriel, ahh I think he had some potential. As in: rawr baby! Unfortunately he was pretty much condemned to the periphery. Not that it would've mattered all that much. Because the heroine, Vivian, had just as little luck escaping her cardboard persona. Klause spent a lot of time fuzzing about her...more
Blood and Chocolate is a well-loved YA werewolf novel, and I've been meaning to read it for the last decade. Now that I have, I'm really disappointed.
Vivian is a 16-year-old werewolf who's torn between her pack and fitting in with the human world (and a human boy). Vivian is also selfish, arrogant, dramatic, and stupid. Over and over we hear her thoughts on how beeeeaaaaauuuuutiful she is and how all the boys want her. Every action she takes endangers someone and she only ever focuses on her ow...more
Vivian is a 16-year-old werewolf who's torn between her pack and fitting in with the human world (and a human boy). Vivian is also selfish, arrogant, dramatic, and stupid. Over and over we hear her thoughts on how beeeeaaaaauuuuutiful she is and how all the boys want her. Every action she takes endangers someone and she only ever focuses on her ow...more
Oct 10, 2007
Jennifer
rated it
4 of 5 stars
Recommends it for:
fantasy fans, YA readers
Shelves:
ya-fantasy-scifi
There seems to be a trend among young adult authors to re-work classic horror stories. In Peeps Scott Westerfeld puts a new spin on vampire stories, and Annette Curtis Klause offers her take on werewolves in Blood and Chocolate. The werewolves in Blood and Chocolate are not blood-thirsty animals; they are a tight-knit extended family with strict rules about not hunting humans. Vivian, the main character, is a teenage girl who loves being loup-garou, or werewolf. To her and her pack being a werew...more
This book is nothing like Twilight. I found it on a booklist for Twilight read-alikes, and I understand why it was included, I’m just saying – it’s not like Twilight. In fact, if you didn’t like Twilight, you may like this book. The protagonist is as full of self-confidance as Bella is full of self-doubt. Whereas Bella’s relationship with her family is peripheral, Viviane is surrounded by family. She’s part of a pack after all. She’s a werewolf. In the end Viviane’s dilemna is not far from Bella...more
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I really liked this book , I thought it was much , much better than the other one I've read by her The Silver Kiss . Some people will probably be against this book being categorized under YA because of the sexual content ; but I thought it was really good for the main character to know that she's pretty/ hott and not be all self-doubting like girls in a lot of other YA books . Vivian knows what she wants and how to get it , she's not some damsel in distress . I loved her as the main character be...more
With all the 'vampire' books around, I thought I'd try something a little different, werewolves. From what I've found out, this is a book for young adult readers, but it contains quite mature themes. Some of the scenes are sexually suggestive but don't go as far as a young adult audience might want them to (*wink*). On the more mature side is the violence and the subtext of violence. And the choices Vivienne makes throughout the novel. Its a good book, a very good book. I enjoyed it for itself,...more
I know a lot of people like this book, and the author is a fairly well known dark fantasy writer, from what I can tell. But I didn't care for it...something just really rubbed me the wrong way.
First of all, I actually disliked the main character, which is rare for me. Although she was a strong person, she was far from nice, far from decent. I just couldn't relate to the aggressive, arrogant, overtly sexual outlook she took on a lot of things. The werewolves in her pack were out-and-out jerk-offs...more
First of all, I actually disliked the main character, which is rare for me. Although she was a strong person, she was far from nice, far from decent. I just couldn't relate to the aggressive, arrogant, overtly sexual outlook she took on a lot of things. The werewolves in her pack were out-and-out jerk-offs...more
Way better than the movie, it can't compare.
I saw the movie multiple times, & I've loved it. And I've had this on my list to read for a long time, but I finally got around to it now. Now I cannot watch the movie knowing it is nothing like the book.
The story is so much richer & in depth than the movie. Vivian is much more likeable & admirable.
Vivian carries the death of her father, which she believes is her fault, & the loss of how close her pack used to be. She feels like an outs...more
I saw the movie multiple times, & I've loved it. And I've had this on my list to read for a long time, but I finally got around to it now. Now I cannot watch the movie knowing it is nothing like the book.
The story is so much richer & in depth than the movie. Vivian is much more likeable & admirable.
Vivian carries the death of her father, which she believes is her fault, & the loss of how close her pack used to be. She feels like an outs...more
This is an older werewolf story. The copyright is 1997, but it doesn't lack for anything just because it's older. All the elements are there. The pack has moved to a more suburban area where they really don't belong because they've been burned out of their last home in West Virginia where Vivian lost her father, her mother lost her husband and the pack lost their leader. The pack is uneasy without a leader and out of control. In the midst of this, Vivian falls for a meat boy, a human. Over the c...more
I'm sort of dismally proud of myself for failing to finish another book - even if, truth be told, this one is just a little bit because I need to return it to the library tomorrow.
I read through the end of Chapter Five, which was enough to tell me that I'm simply not going to identify with Vivian. I felt kind of bad about this, because I really liked the idea of finally reading a paranormal romance where the Dangerous Supernatural Creetyur was female and the fragile human male. And the thing is,...more
I read through the end of Chapter Five, which was enough to tell me that I'm simply not going to identify with Vivian. I felt kind of bad about this, because I really liked the idea of finally reading a paranormal romance where the Dangerous Supernatural Creetyur was female and the fragile human male. And the thing is,...more
Vivian is a werewolf: young, attractive, just come of age, and proud to be a wolf. However, after the death of her father, her pack has been displaced and is in turmoil, making her feel estranged from the other wolves. When she meets a human boy named Aiden, romance sparks between them. He is a welcome change from the turmoil of her wolf life, but love between a human and a werewolf is forbidden and Vivian worries that Aiden will not be able to accept her completely. Blood and Chocolate is a ver...more
Annette Curtis Klause, Blood and Chocolate (Laurel Leaf, 1997)
After all the flap over the film version of this novel (and its subsequent bombing at the box office), I figured I'd give the book a shot to see just what all the fuss was about. And fussworthy it is, though I'm not entirely sure I found it such for the same reasons as most folks. I will warn you at the beginning of this that in order to talk about what really bugged me about this book, I will have to reveal its ending, in part; I wil...more
After all the flap over the film version of this novel (and its subsequent bombing at the box office), I figured I'd give the book a shot to see just what all the fuss was about. And fussworthy it is, though I'm not entirely sure I found it such for the same reasons as most folks. I will warn you at the beginning of this that in order to talk about what really bugged me about this book, I will have to reveal its ending, in part; I wil...more
Plot: Vivian Gandillon is not like other teenage girls, she's a loup-garou, which means that she can shift shape into a wolf. She's fairly isolated from other humans and only sticks to her kind until she meets a human boy, Aiden. He's different and loves anything mystical, such as werewolves and witchcraft. He falls for Vivian. She doesn't know whether or not she should tell him the truth about her true nature. Telling Aiden the truth would also strain her relationship with her clan of werewolve...more
Sep 10, 2007
LFPL Teen Services
rated it
4 of 5 stars
Recommends it for:
high school teens who've seen the movie
Shelves:
fantasy,
books-to-movies
I read this book years ago and decided to read it again after seeing the movie. Like alot books-to-movie, this one was completely different from the movie.
Vivian leads a somewhat normal teen girls life. She feels ackward and lonely and her beauty intimidates her high school peers. She carries a secret with her wherever she goes. Unlike secrets other girls may have...lying about having a boyfriend last summer, cheating on a final exam, or claiming to be a virgin; Vivian's secret is life-changing...more
Vivian leads a somewhat normal teen girls life. She feels ackward and lonely and her beauty intimidates her high school peers. She carries a secret with her wherever she goes. Unlike secrets other girls may have...lying about having a boyfriend last summer, cheating on a final exam, or claiming to be a virgin; Vivian's secret is life-changing...more
Sep 15, 2007
Debbie
rated it
5 of 5 stars
Recommends it for:
fantasy fans
Shelves:
fantasy,
young-adult-lit
Vivian is a teenaged werewolf. She is beautiful and strong and all the young male werewolves want her. When Vivian falls in love with Aiden, a sweet and gentle human with a fascination for witches and vampires, she dares to reveal herself.
The backdrop to her personal life is the struggle for power amidst the pack, as they try to decide on a new leader. Vivian's father, the former pack leader, was killed in a fire after humans discovered the pack and burned down their home. The survivors were fo...more
The backdrop to her personal life is the struggle for power amidst the pack, as they try to decide on a new leader. Vivian's father, the former pack leader, was killed in a fire after humans discovered the pack and burned down their home. The survivors were fo...more
Dec 17, 2008
Brigid *Flying Kick-a-pow!*
rated it
1 of 5 stars
Shelves:
mary-sues,
no-me-gusta,
kill-it-with-fire,
wtf,
werewolves,
bad-romance,
fantasy,
romance,
insta-love
Uhh ... Not much to say. I didn't really get anything more from it than I expected, except I hoped that it would be a little more interesting. I mean, how can you manage to make a book about werewolves so DULL? The whole thing was pretty much about sex, with some werewolf action in between. Over all, seems like some perverted fourteen-year-old wrote it or something. All the characters were so annoying. The main character is really conceited, and has about two thoughts: either "ooh i'm so sexy" o...more
Jan 31, 2009
Sara ♥
rated it
5 of 5 stars
·
review of another edition
Recommends it for:
YA fans; People who like werewolves
4.5 stars! This book was pretty intense! I don't know that I would classify it young adult. It had some pretty adultish themes going through it, but I really really liked it.
Vivian felt real, and, though she was a werewolf, I really identified with her, which is weird, because we had virtually nothing in common (we're both females??), but it's true. The book was very emotional, very intense. I don't really know what to say other than that without giving stuff away, but holy cow. It was good.
The...more
Vivian felt real, and, though she was a werewolf, I really identified with her, which is weird, because we had virtually nothing in common (we're both females??), but it's true. The book was very emotional, very intense. I don't really know what to say other than that without giving stuff away, but holy cow. It was good.
The...more
Best thing about this book: The werewolves. A book can never have too many werewolves. Other than that it was teen angst at its most annoying and unconvincing. But it had werewolf sex!
Will Never Give a Second Thought...until right..now.
This was about as realistic as there being any sort of real justice in the world. Like the kind I want right...now.
Oh, photoshop. What a comfort you are to me in these weary days! But still. Definitely never going to happen.
Though having that special someone being taken out? I'll bet on that.
This was about as realistic as there being any sort of real justice in the world. Like the kind I want right...now.
Oh, photoshop. What a comfort you are to me in these weary days! But still. Definitely never going to happen.
Though having that special someone being taken out? I'll bet on that.
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Annette Curtis Klause broke new ground in young adult literature with The Silver Kiss, a book that is at once "sexy, scaring, and moving," according to Roger Sutton writing in the Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books. A vampire love story, Klause's first novel is a darkly seductive thriller with heart and message.
Born in Bristol, England, in 1953, Klause became fascinated with grisly thing...more
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“I'd like to give you my heart, but since that might be inconvenient, I've brought you someone else's.”
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“Why me?" she asked, holding on to him.
"Because you cared," he whispered. "You cared so much for your people, it broke your heart to see the pack in ruins. You cared so much for your mother, you risked your life for hers. You cared enough to save someone who wanted you dead. And because you walk like a queen.”
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"Because you cared," he whispered. "You cared so much for your people, it broke your heart to see the pack in ruins. You cared so much for your mother, you risked your life for hers. You cared enough to save someone who wanted you dead. And because you walk like a queen.”
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