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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. sweetbookdelights | Jun 22, 2009 |   moonsoar | Jun 13, 2009 | I am amazed by Kelley Armstrong. This is a strong first book to her series. The characters are so complex and intriguing that they made the werewolf world interesting. Many fantasy books tend to revolve around vampires and their world but Armstrong has managed to make Bitten a captivating novel. It's rare to find an author with a strong first book, who can actually write, and who is able to develop a good plot with complex characters. I definitely recommend this book to anyone wanting to get into the urban fantasy genre. (  )words_dance | Jun 12, 2009 | I love a good romance, and I was interested to read something in the growing urban-fantasy genre. Armstrong's Bitten starts out with a truly miserable heroine. This is something Barbara Michaels used to good effect in several of her books - make the heroine, lost, self-hating, and abused, and then let the reader watch her flower and kick butt as the book progresses - but the same formula didn't work for me here. Michaels' heroines are smart ladies who share a mordant sense of humor, but I'm not sure there's a joke in "Bitten" from beginning to end, and I'm afraid I didn't find Elena charismatic enough to sustain my interest. My other problem was the romantic interest, who is set up as a very scary, creepy man. I'm guessing that Armstrong was going for "sexy and dangerous" and overshot the mark. My understanding of the character did evolve as the book progressed, but I was already stuck rooting for her (yes, rather boring) good-guy boyfriend who treats her with great understanding and never tortures anyone to death at all, not even for a good reason. I enjoyed the scenes set in Toronto, as I don't often get to read genre fiction set in my hometown, and many of the scenes were well-written. The pacing was generally good, and I enjoyed the werewolf menage in New York State (  )Cynara | Jun 10, 2009 | 1  Oh, I finished this book in two days. I ignored homework, my professor (yes, I read the book in class and was not told to put it away), and I went to sleep because I had to. It's a good fun novel about a woman who must come to terms with what she's become because of what her ex-lover's done. With werewolves thrown in the mix. I also enjoy her women of the otherworld series, though "Stolen" is a bit too much for me. (  )macart3 | May 17, 2009 | 0.045 seconds to build listing
Amazon.com Book Description (ISBN 0452283485, Paperback)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. (retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:58:08 -0400) The first test round has been closed. Visit the Open Shelves Classification group for details. |
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