Bitten | Kelley Armstrong | (Bitten)Women of the Other World

Bitten | Kelley Armstrong | Amazing In Everyway!!!!

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Bitten

	Bitten Kelley Armstrong, 2001 - 352 pages average customer review:based on 238 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

(Bitten)Women of the Other World

I thought this was a great book,i"ve read the series,waiting to order the next book

Amazing In Everyway!!!!

This book got me back into reading. I bought three books from a local store and did the "my mother told me to pick the very best one..." rhyme as to which I would read first. Bitten was it and I went out the next day, after finishing Bitten, and got the rest of Kelly Armstrong's books. I fell madly in love with the idea, the characters, and the love story inside.

Based in modren times Elena is the only female werewolf, ever as far as their history goes back. She is a prize among her kind and was taken in by The Pack, an exclusive group of werewolfs that are like family. Not completely happy with her life as a werewolf or the circumstances where she was changed lead her to "run away". When her Alpha calls her with a request, she can't say no. Both her mind and pack law dictate it. She returns to her former home and realizes she left more than she was ever really willing to give, including a life as herself without shame or hiding.

The story leaves holes, but the good kind, not giving you back story instead of real plot story and confusing the purpose of the book. However, at Kelly Armstrong's website you can download back stories and side stories from all your favorite characters. I highly recommend reading the entire series. You don't have to read them in order but you miss important character introductions and the entire series is well worth reading. Every character is funny, interesting,and relateable.

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Worth it in the end

At first, this book bored me witless -- it was so slow to start. For a while there, I wondered if I could be bothered finishing it. The writing style seemed a bit pedestrian, and the trivial plot points seemed to be written about at length while the important matters were glossed over.

But then the story picked up pace. Things started happening, interesting, suspenseful things. I started to care about the heroine and those around her, and understand their motivations. I started to (for the most part) rather enjoy the book.

Maybe because this was the author's first novel, it took her a while to get into stride...but when she did, she really ran with it.

By the time the book was over, I was glad I read it. In the balance of things, I considered that its flaws were outweighed by its pluses. But I also felt a weird sense of deja vu, like I'd somehow read the book before...and then I realised, it was basically more or less the same story as another book I once read, 'Blood and Chocolate' by Annette Curtis Klause. Of course, 'Blood and Chocolate' predates 'Bitten' by a couple of years, so if anyone was copying anyone else, it was 'Bitten' copying 'Blood and Chocolate'. I really enjoyed 'Blood and Chocolate', so maybe that's why I didn't mind 'Bitten'.

As far as contemporary paranormal fantasy stories go, I would definitely rate 'Bitten' much lower than 'Moon Called' and the other Mercy Thompson books by Patricia Briggs...those are just about my favourite series of books, though, so maybe it's not fair to compare them. But I would still rate 'Bitten' light years ahead of the incredibly dull and atrociously written 'Twilight'...if anyone can please explain to me the huge success of 'Twilight', I would appreciate it...I suspect it involves some sort of dark magic that befuddles readers, or perhaps a gypsy curse, or something in the water supply, or some sort of teenage hormonal imbalance that makes girls like stories about useless heroines and really horrible but good looking blokes...I don't know...

By the way, a number of the other reviews for 'Bitten' gave me a bit of a chuckle...it would seem that some of the people who read this book either skimmed over important facts and therefore didn't understand a lot of aspects of the story and characters, or the reviewers are just not the brightest sparks and lack some very basic comprehension skills. There's so many inaccuracies and misconceptions in those reviews, this is one of those instances where maybe you'd be better off judging the book by its cover than by some of its reviews.

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