Type of bind: Hardcover
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Page Count: 352
Printing Date: August 31, 2001
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With rights already sold in seven countries, Bitten is a daring literary suspense novel that is causing an international sensation. Ever since her parents were killed in a car accident when she was five, Elena Michaels has longed for a normal family life. Smart, beautiful, and engaged to be married, Elena hopes to fulfill that dream when disaster strikes. Not only has her fiancé lied about his secret life as a werewolf, but he's made her one, too. She has no choice but to join him at Stonehaven, the upstate New York home of an elite pack of werewolves.
In an endeavor to break away, she moves to Toronto to lead a normal life. Working as a journalist, Elena now lives with her new architect boyfriend, works out in the basement gym of their high-rise apartment, lunches with girlfriends from the office, and—once a week, at four in the morning—runs naked and furred through a downtown Toronto ravine, ripping out the throats of her animal prey. But when a band of outlaw werewolves threatens the Stonehaven pack, Elena's feral instincts drive her back there to join the defense. What follows is a war for territory, for pride, and ultimately for Elena herself.
Writing with the visceral power of Anne Rice, Kelley Armstrong has created a fascinating story of a woman struggling for her identity.
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Kelly Armstrong is my new Laurell K Hamilton. I devoured Bitten and couldn't wait to fill my library with the other books in this series. It's a new perspective of the supernatural world that really delves into the characters' lives, not just their supernatural abilities. Armstrong weaves a strong tale but also gives you insight into her alternative universe that keeps you wanting more.
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I'm a fan of the genre (for reference, I liked the early Hamilton books and enjoy the Dresden files and the Hollows books, but don't think much of the Charlaine Harris books), so I was expecting to like this book. I figured it had to be OK given the large number in the series. So I went and bought this one and the subsequent in the series (Stolen).
After finishing this one, I regretted buying the second, but eventually slogged my way through it. I've spent a fair amount of time trying to figure out exactly what it was that put me off about this book.
I think the very first problem it has is weak characterization. The author has obviously put a lot of work into trying to do characterization, but doesn't manage to bring it off. The main character has a lot of attitude but comes off as flat and unsympathetic. Other characters are even less well developed.
Plotting was also a problem. The characters involved seem much less intelligent and competent than in most other series of this genre. It seems like the author is striving for realism, but the characters just come off as being slow. They just flail around and come out on top in the end more due to luck and incompetent enemies than anything else.
I won't be buying any more books by this author.
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This is the very first book in the Women of the Otherworld series.
It is easy to read and attracted me by being more along the lines of Buffy rather than the more traditional supernatural horror story.
The characters are easy to relate to and very well written. I strongly recommend this series to anyone who enjoys supernatural fantasy but is scared of the darker horror stories out there!
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My initial impression from the very first few chapters was very promising and I had begun to think this book would surpass the often sub par writing associated with the urban fantasy genre. And in terms of the writing, it does. Were it falls short is in the plot. Overall it is nothing new, *SPOILER* the bad werewolves attack
the good werewolfs etc. *END OF SPOILER* and there are the semi-gratuitous
sex breaks that really bring the book down to trite romance novel
level. Not quite the 'sweet love story' promised on the back cover.
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Extremely well written, Bitten has got to be one of the best werewolf novels out there right now- from a female perspective at least.
Told from the 1st person voice, Bitten starts off with the heroine, Elena Michaels, living in Toronto and trying to maintain a normal existence- far from her "pack". Elena has the distinction of being one of the few werewolves "created"- i.e. she was bitten and turned rather than born as one. And too, there aren't many female werewolves as the gene is inherited from male to male.
When she receives a message from her pack leader she's wary. If she responds, she knows they will suck her back in and, more than anything, she desires a normal life once again. But when the boys back home don't respond to her return calls, she's concerned enough to leave her live-in boyfriend and go investigate.
When arriving at the isolated pack compound, she's relieved to discover her two main concerns, the pack leader Jeremey and his number 1, Clayton, are all right. Still, she's ready to get the heck out of dodge even though it's the last thing these two men want or will allow:
Jeremy, for one, because he's got a problem that he thinks only Elena can help with. A mutt is on the loose- mutt being a rogue werewolf belonging to no pack- and he's apparently killing close to their home turf. Since they have been living peaceably with their neighbors for years and have been left relatively alone, this is the last thing they need. Elena's old job for the pack was keeping tabs on the mutts which is why she is needed so desperately by the pack leader.
Clay has his own selfish motives for wanting Elena to stay- she's his mate and he's tired of her running from it- even though she has a big VALID reason for wanting no part of him. How it all pans out, as well as what happens when Clay and Elena return to Toronto, made the book even more exciting as far as I'm concerned!
Armstrong has obviously taken a lot of time in research to put in as much authenticity to the world of werewolves she's created. At the heart of these characters is their animal nature and most of the time they are unapologetic about it- I think that's cool. Because of this, the novel comes off fresh while still retaining a dark, sexy edge.
Good read if you like the paranormal romance/urban fantasy genre!
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