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Summary: Excellent first effort
Review: I thoroughly enjoyed this book, it gives a more logical view as to how werewolves could exist in the real world. Their attempts to integrate canine pack power politics into everyday existence is a refreshing change from the uncontrolled slobbering beast Hollywood always seems to use.
I was going to give it five stars, but I followed it with the brilliant "A taste of blood wine" by Freda Warrington and this highlighted the fact that good as Bitten is it's far from perfect. Overall a good first effort I await the sequel .
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Summary: Good Romance
Review: I was expecting a horror novel, but this is more of a romantic fantasy. I don't understand why she's the only female werewolf in the world. It was a good read so I suspended my disbelief.
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Summary: Outstanding first book
Review: I only hope that this is the first book in a series on Elena and her pack of werewolves. The author has left just enough questions unanswered to make me want to know more without feeling cheated by this first book. I was enthralled and finsihed it in one sitting. I think fans of Laurel Hamilton's books might enjoy this one as well. Really well done.
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Summary: A spellbinding reading experience
Review: Growing up as an orphan left Elena Michaels vulnerable to the charm of Clayton. However, instead of marriage, two kids, and a picket fence, Clayton bites Elena turning her into the world's only known female werewolf. The werewolf gene is male with only the females converting by being bitten and almost all die from the Change. Elena joins Clayton's pack in remote Stonehaven, New York for awhile, but soon leaves to return to her Toronto home to try to live a human life even if she runs naked at four in the morning.
Her former pack leader Jeremy demands Elena return to help fight a rogue pack. However, the enemy captures Clayton. They demand Jeremy give them Elena in exchange because they want to turn her into a breeding farm of purebred lycanthropics. None of these males factored in Elena's reaction to the bartering.
Werewolf readers will enjoy BITTEN, a well-written horror novel with a fast-paced story line. The werewolf packs seem real as if the species exists mostly because of Elena who is the consummate heroine that makes the novel work. The change of Clayton from psychopath to hero seems a bit contrived, but fans will still want to run along side Elena and any future tales by Kelley Armstrong starring this wonderful lead female. Harriet Klausner
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Summary: Too many wonderfully decriptive words, just can't describe..
Review: Wow!
Just WOW!
I adore this book. There are wonderful characters, a completely original plot ('cept it still follows the line bad guy wants something good guys have, goes through hell and puts everyone through hell in an attempt to get it scenario, but since the reasons are original it works). The characters are original, witty, funny, werewolves... I haven't mentioned that yet have I?? but these aren't your conventionally "half-man, half-god-knows-what-the-hell-thats-supposed-to-be... a wolf?" werewolves. When they change they become full wolf... including tail.
When Elena Michaels left the _Pack_ she thought she would try to return to a _normal_ life. Good bloody luck. Besides having to change in alleyways, lie to her live-in boyfriend, and make it to dead lines, she also has to try to ignore her pack. But when her Pack needs her she has to go, lying further to her boyfriend. When she returns to her Pack you're introduced to the main man in her love-life... Clayton Danvers. Six foot of muscle, blond slightly curly hair, blue eyes, werewolf, and completely head over heels for her. Just not _normal_ enough.
The bad guy/good guy scenario starts here, filled with sarcastic remarks, sex romps in the woods/backyard, house, make-outs in front of hotel rooms... its great.
I have read this book dozens of times, and probably will a thousand more. The seuel _Stolen_ is good too.
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Summary: Two thumbs, and paws, up for Kelly Armstrong's first book
Review: "Bitten" is a wonderful re-telling of the old werewolf tale. Kelly Armstrong brings Elena (who is telling the story) to life, as well as the other characters. Elena is one of the only female werewolves out there, bitten by her intended -Clayton- and turned. Elena, however, doesn't like being a werewolf so she leaves The Pack and moves to Canada, where she finds a normal life and a normal boyfriend. However, when The Pack's leader, Jermey, calls on Elena to return home, Elena knows she has no choice. However, Elena tries not to fall back into the life she once knew, of The Pack, and tries to resist Clay's attempts to woo back her love. However, when Clay is taken captive by a rouge band of Mutts (werewolves outside The Pack), Elena must make her choice.
Kelly Armstrong is a GREAT writer and creates characters you actually care about. It's a "howling" (bad werewolf humor) good read.
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Summary: Now it all makes sense...
Review: When I read Bitten last year, I thought that it was okay, but just okay. While reading, I felt as if I'd picked up a series in the middle and that there was a lot that went on before that I wasn't privy to.
And there was. I discovered Kelley Armstrong's site with the three prequels to Bitten. Savage, Ascension, and Beginnings.
Savage tells Clay's story. How he became a werewolves and how he ended up in Jeremy's care. It was excellent.
Ascension tells the story of Jeremy's rise to Alpha. A page turner.
Beginnings tells the story of Clay and Elena's courtship. Lovely.
After reading these three books and then rereading Bitten I got it. Bitten isn't the first in the series. It's just the first that was published. And it can be a stand alone, but reading the 3 that came before will put the reader in this world more fully and equip you with a better understanding of each character's motivation.
And when the bodies of the pack brothers begin to fall in Bitten, you'll know them and fell their loss as keenly as Elena, Jer, and Clay.
Check out Bitten for sure, but check out the 3 that came before first. They're free, and you can download them or read them online. Or you can request that they be sent to you.
Enjoy!
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Summary: A Toothsome and Meaty Read for a Full-Mooned Night!
Review: Finally, a story that delivers more on the strengths of being a female (and a werewolf to boot) in modern society, than focusing on the whining and angst that has become so tiresome and common in "alternate world" novels today. Watch out Anita Blake, because Elena Michaels will kick your butt with nary a glance back!
"Bitten" is a awesome first novel because first and foremost-it is well-written, an achievement that many popular alternateverse authors cannot lay claim too.
The story is punctuated with the real world problems of city dweller Elena Michaels who has voluntarily left the shelter of her Pack and has turned her back on her true nature: being a lycanthrope. She is unerringly drawn back into the Pack, when they are faced with the double threat of exposure and a turf war that has spilled into the "real" human world.
Also, coming back to the Pack puts her once again into the path of her mate Clayton, whose relationship issues lay sticky and unresolved. Elena is more of a "get 'er done" girl, and while she struggles with her true nature, you don't hear her crying about it for long. No "whah-whah's" over spilt blood here, just a quick slash of a claw and she's takin' care of business!
Greeeaaat read, that delivers on all levels. Great action, characters, sex! It was hard to put down!
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Summary: The best start of a series I've read in a long time!
Review: Kelley Armstrong has got herself a winner in this series! Bitten is one of the strongest, most original stories I've found in a long time. While the novel starts out a bit slow, it is truly worth the read in the end. Clay and Elena are superb characters. I can't wait to read more of them!
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Summary: good writing, poor characters
Review: The main character Eleana can't seem to do anything right. I mean she screws up every single thing. There isn't a single thing that she doesn't botch that isn't super easy.
What she doesn't screw is just super easy tasks. She overreacts to everything, doesn't think anything through. She has to constantly be rescued by the hulky beautiful men in her life. Constantly she betrays herself, her beliefs. She never knows what she wants and has to be told by the men in her life whats best for her. I tried to like her, but I couldn't. I didn't like her, I couldn't relate to her, I wasn't interested in her (since the men and readers already know everything she was just too blind to see anything about herself). I kept reading, hoping she would not screw up next time, but she always did. And she always got rescued.
The writing was good, but I hated the main character. Every single thing she screws up and has the most wonderful luck of not being killed.
If you like the kind of story where the women are always being dominated, controlled, and constantly rescued by the hunky sexy men due to their inability to do anything right (apparently due to them being women in the first place). If you like books where the strong, willful men have their way with women and tell them whats best. buy it
If you like strong independent women, smart women, then this is not for you at all.
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