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Summary: You want werewolves? Read "Blood & Chocolate"
Review: Disgusted and annoyed by her nagging mother and boring States-side life, Maris takes a job overseas as an au-pair to an English family. The two little kids are lovely and, despite the family's bizarre attitudes, Maris feels right at home ... until the mom's bloodied corpse is found in bed and her husband sneaks out for long night-time strolls. As Maris falls in love with her employer, she comes to realize that he isn't even human...First off, I love werewolves. Vampires are corpses risen from the dead, but werewolves I can handle: shapeshifting creatures who resemble humans but get a little rowdy around the full moon. Yet for all its corny dialogue and underdeveloped characters, "The Blooding" doesn't deliver. The book never entirely solves it's subplots, such as the exact cause of the mother's death in her bed (there are speculations, but no wrap-up), and the end is a complete let-down. Unlike Annette Curtis Klause's triumphant werewolf novel "Blood & Chocolate", "The Blooding" has a heroine you can't really care about. She's self-centered and one-dimensional. She leaves the States to get away from her nagging mother and then falls in love with her boss, yet there's not much more to her than that. Chapters go on and on, showing the uncertain relationship between Maris and her charge's father, yet you're never sure whether the guy actually cares about her because he's so distant and creepy, and you wonder what Maris actually sees in the jerk. If you want a good werewolf book, read "Blood & Chocolate". That novel has a realistic, sexy, frustrated heroine who loves to party during the full moon, yet can't understand her place in life. And that story comes out better than any dusty book like this any day.
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Summary: GReat if a little bloody.
Review: Great book using a new twist on the curse of a werewolf. I've read a lot of books like it and it was one of the better. If you liked it you should try Blood and Chocolate.
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Summary: one of the best!
Review: I absolutly loved this book! I could not put it down. It was a bit gory but not sickning gory. It was very discriptive (in a good way) and held your intrest. Not like any other horror book I have read. Very unique. I would suggest this to the mind that don't doesn't was a sex involved vampire/wolf book and can handel a mind captivating story. Can I say any more? Read it it's really good!
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Summary: A Major disapointment
Review: I am extremely disapointed with this book. The reviews built the book up on a pedastool, and it fell off. I am not exactly happy with myself because I bought the hardcover and found it to be a waste of money.
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Summary: The Mystery of Shapeshifting
Review: I enjoyed reading the book and it was very interesting how everything came out in the end. I gave the book four stars because it was probably one of the best books that I have ever read.I liked how Maris dealt with everything and how determined she was not to leave England. I couldn't put this book down because I wanted to see what else was going to happen. The suspense never stopped and that's one of the things that made me more interested in the book. I hope to see a second part to this story because it interested me very much.
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Summary: The Blooding
Review: I hated it and if it was possible to give this book lower than a one, trust me I would! The plot is also slow moving and the description is horrid!
The relationship between the young girl and the man who's over thirty is appalling and the characters have almost no personality. The mood is darker and depressing but the plot is simply stupid- sorry to say. My thoughts: Read this book if you wish but don't be too dissapointed if it's nothing spectacular... It will keep you busy at least. (PLOT: A young girl who's mother places no trust in her sends her off to help out an old friend with her children in England. While in England weird things begin to happen, the woman sufferes from a mysterious illness and Maris- the main character keeps hearing people come in and out at around 3am and hears someone being sick and finds blood in the bathroom.
To make a long story short Maris ends up trying to find out this family's secrets and falls in love with the father who is like 20 years older than her and gets entangled in a swirl of dark secrets, family fueds, death, and werewolves.)
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Summary: The Blooding
Review: I hated it and if it was possible to give this book lower than a one, trust me I would! The plot is also slow moving and the description is horrid!
The relationship between the young girl and the man who's over thirty is appalling and the characters have almost no personality. The mood is darker and depressing but the plot is simply stupid- sorry to say. My thoughts: Read this book if you wish but don't be too dissapointed if it's nothing spectacular... It will keep you busy at least. (PLOT: A young girl who's mother places no trust in her sends her off to help out an old friend with her children in England. While in England weird things begin to happen, the woman sufferes from a mysterious illness and Maris- the main character keeps hearing people come in and out at around 3am and hears someone being sick and finds blood in the bathroom.
To make a long story short Maris ends up trying to find out this family's secrets and falls in love with the father who is like 20 years older than her and gets entangled in a swirl of dark secrets, family fueds, death, and werewolves.)
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Summary: pretty awesome book!
Review: I have to admit, this book was really good. I have also read 'blood and chocolate' and although it wasn't quite as good as b&c, it wasn't supposed to be. It had a completely different plot, and the style was also nowhere near the same. I would recommend it to anyone.
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Summary: Not bad
Review: I have to dissagree with the previous reviews about this books. I didn't find it *that* bad. It was slightly dry but it did have it's moments. Compared to other young adult novels out there, this one is slightly superior. As for the Blood and Chocolate comparision, I can see how the critic did compare the books because both books have similar tones. I would give the book a chance. If you don't want to spend money on it, check it out of the library.
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Summary: This was a pretty good book
Review: I liked "The Blooding" as it was a bit more subtle and creepier then "Blood and Chocolate" which it sometimes gets compared to. It is not a very fast paced book but it still a good read. I suppose the bottom line is what sort of werewolf story you prefer.
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