Stolen (Women of the Otherworld, #2) in Once Upon a Twilight blog

Nov 14, 2010 Sasha Summers rated it liked it

Stolen revisits Clay, Elena, and Jeremy from Bitten. While I really enjoyed Bitten, I found Stolen a little more convoluted. There was too much going on and too many different types of characters/species to keep up with. Sure there were more prominent characters than others, but it was harder to connect and care about any of them with as large a 'cast' as Stolen had.
While the book maintained the edgey vibe of the first book, it wasn't quite as gripping as its predecessor.
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Feb 04, 2011 OpenBookSociety.com rated it liked it

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Stolen is the second installment in Kelley Armstrong’s supernatural series, Women of the Otherworld. This is a series that I didn’t think I’d like, but quickly fell in love with.

This book starts out with Elena on her way to Pittsburgh to investigate an advertisement for information on werewolves. She has ducked out on Clay so she could handle this solo and to make sure that the pack isn’t in danger of being exposed.

Once she gets to her appointment, she discove Brought to you by OBS reviewer Heidi

Stolen is the second installment in Kelley Armstrong’s supernatural series, Women of the Otherworld. This is a series that I didn’t think I’d like, but quickly fell in love with.

This book starts out with Elena on her way to Pittsburgh to investigate an advertisement for information on werewolves. She has ducked out on Clay so she could handle this solo and to make sure that the pack isn’t in danger of being exposed.

Once she gets to her appointment, she discovers they already know she’s a werewolf and have placed the ad specifically to target her. The two that set it in motion are a couple of witches, Ruth and Paige. They inform her that the werewolves are in danger along with all other supernatural beings. Rich Tycoon, Ty Winsloe, and his hired cronies are kidnapping all the creatures he can get his hands on and the wolves could be next. The witches insist Elena bring her leader to a meeting they’re having in Vermont.

That night Elena goes for a jog and someone is following her, trying to capture her. She escapes with the help of Ruth and Paige. And after she informs her alpha, Jeremy, of what happened he sees no choice, but to attend the meeting.

Jeremy and Elena go to the meeting and listen to what everyone has to say, but decide to eventually go off on their own to handle the threat. Clay joins them and they caravan out of town. Elena is driving solo, but gets into a wreck. Before Clay and Jeremy catch up to her, she is drugged and taken away. She has officially been stolen and thrown into the prison that even she doesn’t see how to escape from.

I absolutely loved the predecessor to this book, Bitten, and was really excited to get to read Stolen. This one was pretty good, but I don’t think it quite lived up on Bitten though.

This book got off to a slow start for me, but the storyline was interesting and kept me engrossed in the story. This was definitely one that I didn’t want to put down once Elena was kidnapped and the plot thickened so to speak.

“A guitar twanged from the far-off radio. Country music. Damn. They’d resorted to torture already.”

I think my main complaint in this book is there wasn’t nearly enough Clay in it. I was expecting the book to switch to Clay’s point of view and show when they discovered the wrecked explorer that Elena had been driving or show their attempts at finding her, but they never do. In fact the entire book is narrated by Elena. And the only time we hear from Jeremy or Clay during Elena’s captivity is when Paige pulls Elena into her body so she can talk to her alpha. So needless to say I was bummed to find out that in the next book it will start shifting to other women in the series as book three, Dime Store Magic, focuses on Paige, which is bound to have even less Clay in it….in fact, he will probably be non-existent. I’m sure it will be good once I get past the no Clay thing though.

Stolen is a definite must read for Kelley Armstrong fans and any werewolf lover will definitely want to take a big yummy bite.

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Feb 13, 2012 Danya Bakhbakhi rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: fiction, paranormal, young-adult, thrillers, mine

A light, somewhat-witty, mildly sarcastic, half-thriller with a presumably strong, leading female character. A bit of a John Green version of paranormal urban fantasy.

Now, my opinion of this book might be spoiled by some immensely complex, multi-plotted, exciting reads that I'd been through just before getting to this simpler one (hate when that happens!); but I think that it kind of lacked excitement on some levels, especially in the first half. Although the end about pretty much saved the whol ...more

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Mar 27, 2011 Susan rated it really liked it · review of another edition

This was a slow starter for me, but then it picked up about midway, and took off! Loved the introduction of the others, that Elena is accepting who she is, and that we were shown a softer side of Clay. I'm looking forward to the next one. ...more

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Feb 22, 2011 Christine rated it it was amazing

I really liked this book, and the introduction of all the different characters and their powers/talents. Elena and Clay were much more enjoyable in this book, and I thought they were very sweet, yet powerful together. I wasn't thrilled with Elena as much in 'Bitten', but I became a big fan of hers after finishing Stolen. ...more

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