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Loading... Blood and Chocolate (1997)by Annette Curtis Klause
 frozenplums | May 2, 2013 |  WAY better than I expected. A refreshing change from the typical YA formula. (  ) Ritastradling | Apr 15, 2013 | This was one of the books that the movie was better. I don't know about you but I just couldn't see her ending up with a jerk. (  ) ElizabethdRosa | Apr 10, 2013 | One of my all-time favorite YA novels. (  ) Sullywriter | Apr 3, 2013 | 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 critics wrote these things on the back: "A well-drawn, powerful, and seductive novel." "Klause weaves all the gory details into a poignant love story that becomes both sensuous and suspenseful." Both are totally true. ( ) saraferrell | Apr 3, 2013 | no reviews | add a review
Amazon.com Amazon.com Review (ISBN 0440226686, Mass Market Paperback)Characterizing the adolescent experience as monstrous is not exactly a new idea. M.T. Anderson's woefully confused teen vampire in Thirsty and Jean Thesman's reluctant young witch in The Other Ones serve as excellent examples of this metaphor set to fiction. But no one really captures how our hormones make us howl as well as Annette Curtis Klause. Blood and Chocolate chronicles the longings and passions of one Vivian Gandillon, teenage werewolf. Her pack family, recently burned out of their West Virginia home by suspicious neighbors, has resettled in a sleepy Maryland suburb. At her new school, Viv quickly falls for sensitive heartthrob Aiden, a human--or "meat-boy," as her pack calls him. Soon she is trying to tame her undomesticated desires to match his more civilized sensibilities. "He was gentle. She hadn't expected that. Kisses to her were a tight clutch, teeth, and tongue... His eyes were shy beneath his dark lashes, and his lips curved with delight and desire--desire he wouldn't force on her... he was different." But Vivian's animal ardor cannot be stilled, and she must decide if she should keep Aiden in the dark about her true nature or invite him to take a walk on her wild side.Klause poetically describes the violence and sensuality of the pack lifestyle, creating a hot-blooded heroine who puts the most outrageous riot grrrls to shame. Blood and Chocolate is a masterpiece of adolescent angst wrapped in wolf's clothing, and its lovely, sensuous taste is sure to be sweet on the teenage tongue. (Ages 13 and older) --Jennifer Hubert (retrieved from Amazon Thu, 11 Nov 2010 12:33:00 -0500) Having fallen for a human boy, a beautiful teenage werewolf must battle both her packmates and the fear of the townspeople to decide where she belongs and with whom. |
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When she falls in love with a human – a meat-boy – she further alienates herself from the pack, but it is her desire to reveal her true self to the magic-loving boy that thrusts them all into danger. He’s human. He can’t be trusted. On top of which, the pack has selected a mate for her, and it is her duty to accept.
Vivian’s struggle to define herself is not a novelty, but her attempts to make herself fit perfectly into one world – the human one, or the animal one – gives an entertaining spin to it. The result is a full out battle between what she truly is and what society expects of its inhabitants, and she finds herself questioning what it is she’s really searching for.
An excellent book! The way werewolves SHOULD be. (