Bitten (Women of the Otherworld, Book 1)

Rating:
Summary: Not quite up to the hype.
Review: I bought this book becasue of the rave reviews here at Amazon, and also because I like werewolf stories. I was disappointed. For a werewolf book, it was well written. I think the genre lacks quality writing, and this one stands out. It's a big fish in a little pond.

As a book outside the genre, it was uneven. It started out well, but petered out and became boring as it wore on. The ending was anticlimatic. The 2 main characters (no spoilers) were at times obviously walking into dangerous situations and appearing completely idiotic as they did so. I could see it coming, but the wary werewolves couldn't? They seemed to me TSTL and only by unbelievable (literally) circumstances, they did.

I gave it three stars because it was an above average werewolf book, and a below average work of fiction.

Rating:
Summary: I took a chance and I am glad I did!
Review: I picked this book up without knowing anything of Kelley Armstrong. I was looking for something "different" and Kelley offered that right up. In the beginning, you are right there with Elena. She's still trying to make this transition in maintaining something of a "normal" life and she hides nothing to the reader. The book reads almost like a diary entry. I enjoyed seeing everything from Elena's point of view.
When she gets the call from Jeremy, she knows right then and there that things were going to change...whether she wanted it or not.
As the reader, I always had a thought in my mind that Elena subconsciously wanted to go back to Stonehaven because that was her home. Her relationship with Clay threw me through a hoop a bit. At first I didn't want her to get back with him because I all the things that he had done to her and for the sort of person he was. But when it came across just how much he loved her and how much he was willing to change for her, then I thought that maybe it wouldn't be so bad.
I didn't like the end too much, mostly because it was sort of obvious what she was going to do. Though, I am interested as to how things will progress from there.
The writing is amazing and there's no way someone can stop reading this book half way through. It is a real page turner and I look forward to reading more of Kelley Armstrong's books.

Rating:
Summary: It's okay, but....(spoilers)
Review: I read this book based on the reviews here, but afterwards I felt like I had been cheated. While the basic premise is interesting, there are several "hoary old cliches" that bring this down, For example:

- all the Pack members look as if they stepped off of the cover of GQ, while the "mutts" were all described as less than perfect;

- all foster families were were dysfunctional with the males interested in sex with the protagonist while their wives looked the other way;

- the courts would not allow a single woman to adopt, no matter what;

In addition, the subplots were thin, with one glaring example being a wedding ring worn by a major character not being noticed or questions by a character supposedly trying to make any kind of conversation.


Rating:
Summary: Amazing, leaves you craving for more!
Review: I learned about Kelly Armstrong's book series after reading an article in the newspaper, I immediately went out and bought bitten and could NOT put it down, Kelly's savy and realistic approach to writing the main heroine's story is a true page turner.. you won't be disappointed!

Rating:
Summary: A Fantastic Read for the Horror Starved
Review: I thank my lucky stars that I managed to come across this novel, because it is by far the best series i have come across since Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles. Full of mystery and action, Bitten is a fanatastic novel that holds you until the very last page, and leaves you wishing for more.
If you're tired of the Anita Blake approach to the supernatural world, where everyone seems to sleep with everyone else, then try Kelley's Women of the Otherworld. There's still a little sex, but the story isn't ruled by it.
I would recommend this novel to anyone, and those that have read it at my request have been pleasantly surprised.

Rating:
Summary: A book with some bite to it...
Review: Loved it, from the first page to the last !!!
I've read other books featuring werewolves (Hamilton, Harris, King), but none remotely like this... Other books talk about the change and how it's painfull but that's about it... This one describes how it is like to actually be a werewolve, how it's like to run, to smell everything, to live with al these urges... How it's like to play with your pack members in wolf-from...

Bitten tells the story of Elena. She had a really difficult childhood and is just starting to come to terms with it all when she's bitten and becomes a werewolve...
10 years later she's left her pack and moved to the city where she lives with her boyfriend. Things aren't easy, living with a human and in the city, but she's managing.
Then her former pack leader calls her: there's an emergency "back home", so she goes back to her pack members and Clay, the man she loves with whole her heart, or hate with whole her heart, depending on whitch minute of the day it is...

Rating:
Summary: Bitten by Kelley Armstrong
Review: This is such a outstanding book that I would have given it more than 5 stars! Kelley Armstrong is such a good author, this is too good of a book to be true! Anyways its about a woman about 30 years old name Elena. She lived in an apartment with her boyfriend name Philip who she thinks she really love. Her life is perfect right? Wrong there is one thing, that Philip doesn't know about her...something she moved to Toronto to get her mind off. Shes a werewolf. Elena wasn't born a werewolf but was bitten by her previous boyfriend who she had no idea was a werewolf until he bit her. Now she is the only female werewolf to ever exist. Anyways she moved to Toronto to get away from the werewolf pack. But then Jeremy, the leader of the pack, called her and told Elena to phone him back. But when she tried no one picked up the phone, so she got worried and went back to New York. If you want to know what happens next please read it. I was really glad that she and Clay, her previous boyfriend, had a relationship while she was there. To read the prologue of this book go to Kelley Armstrong offical website which is http://www.kelleyarmstrong.com.