Kelley
Armstrong review - Bitten.
(Women of the Other World novel.)
***SPOILERS***
A story
about the only female werewolf, Elena Michaels, who wanted
to live like the human she was before she was bitten. But the pack is
in danger and she has been brought back to help and become the wolf
she wanted to leave behind.
This is a
fantastic first book! Kelley set the bar high straight off with this
book. I couldn't put it down! It had the perfect level of romance,
humour and action. What can I say? It was written beautifully. There
is a real sense of connection with the characters, you can feel the
happiness, the frustration and the loss. I also didn't
feel like I was reading a 'God-moded' heroine that I find are in so
many other paranormal romance novels.
Since I have
finished this book I have gone on to read the rest of the Women of
the Other World novels. I would recommend these books to anyone
looking for a gripping read that lets you escape the hum of reality
and jump right in at the deep end.
Plot:
Elena
had managed to settle into a 'normal' existence, living with her
architect boyfriend and ignoring her wolf side as much as possible.
However, Elena is also the only known female werewolf in the
world. This gives her a very special place in the werewolf world, and
especially with the werewolf pack. After Elena learns that a
local woman was found murdered on Stonehaven's land, (the country
estate of the pack Alpha) and that she had been savaged by what
authorities thought to be a dog. However, the Pack has determined
that she was murdered by a rogue werewolf otherwise known to the pack
as a 'Mutt'. Elena has to make the agonising decision whether
to leave the human life behind - that she had tried so hard to build
- Or to return to the pack and her former lover, and the man that bit
her, Clayton Danvers.
After finding two pack members
dead, Logan and Peter, Elena finds herself back in the arms of Clay
for comfort and consequently strikes up a complicated romance. Once
Jeremy (the pack Alpha) had been attacked, the pack figures out that
the "mutts", tired of being rule by the Pack, are trying to
free themselves from under the packs shadow. To do this one mutt in
particular, Daniel, who has reason to hate Clay from childhood, has
started recruiting human killers and other escaped convicts
and turns them into werewolves to fight the pack.
As the novel
reaches it's end, time swiftly runs out on Elena. Does she resume her
'normal' life with her architect boyfriend? Or does she rekindle her life
with the pack?