Bitten (Women of the Otherworld) - Softcover

Armstrong, Kelley

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0452286034 ISBN 13: 9780452286030

Publisher: Plume, 2004

Synopsis

On the eve of her marriage, Elena Michaels learns that her fiance has been concealing his secret life as a werewolf, and, as a bonus, he has made her into one also.

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Review:

Elena, heroine of Kelley Armstrong's impressive debut thriller Bitten, never planned that a casual sexual encounter would transform her into a werewolf. Neither did Clay, her lover and one of the leaders of the exclusive werewolf clique known as the Pack; women do not generally change or survive if they do. Elena's considerable reservations about her new life come to a head and she walks out on the Pack to return to something like normality, finding herself a boyfriend who turns a blind eye to her occasional disappearances in the middle of the night. She may have done with the infighting of werewolves, but they have not done with her; her former family call her back when they find themselves under threat from those they have excluded and dominated. Kelley Armstrong is very good on the sheer exhilaration of shape-changing, of running on four feet through forests, suburban greenery and urban back alleys; if there is a weakness here, it is that Elena's relationship with the taciturn, untrustworthy Clay is sometimes a little too conventionally romantic--but the dark poetry of the best of the book overcomes this entirely. --Roz Kaveney

Review:

It's terrific. The heroine is the most appealing I have come across in ages. It's clever, quirky, hip and funny, skating between genres with style and grace. More please! (Joanne Harris, author of Chocolat)

A hair-raising story for the she-wolf in us all (Shannon Olson, author of Welcome to my Planet)

Entertaining new take on an old thriller story form. Makes Buffy look fluffy (Daily Express)

Armstrong's true achievement is her depiction of werewolf nature in believably human context ...the sensuality of Elena's transformations and the viciousness of her kills mesh perfectly with her tough personality. Filled with romance and supernatural intri (Publishers Weekly)

About this edition

• Publisher: Plume
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0452286034
• ISBN 13: 9780452286030
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Number of pages: 436