Broken (Women of the Otherworld, Book 6) | Kelley Armstrong

Broken (Women of the Otherworld, Book 6) | Kelley Armstrong | Overall a fairly good story, but . . .

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	Broken (Women of the Otherworld, Book 6) Kelley Armstrong Spectra, 2006 - 480 pages average customer review:based on 58 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

In this thrilling new novel from the author of Industrial Magic, a pregnant werewolf may have unwittingly unleashed Jack the Ripper on twenty-first-century?and become his next target.

Ever since she discovered she?s pregnant, Elena Michaels has been on edge. After all, she?s never heard of another living female werewolf, let alone one who?s given birth. But thankfully, her expertise is needed to retrieve a stolen letter allegedly written by Jack the Ripper. As a distraction, the job seems simple enough?only the letter contains a portal to Victorian London?s underworld, which Elena inadvertently triggers?unleashing a vicious killer and a pair of zombie thugs.

Now Elena must find a way to seal the portal before the unwelcome visitors get what they?re looking for?which, for some unknown reason, is Elena.

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I Love This Series!

This isn't the first novel where Elena is the main character, and I love how Armstrong puts you inside her head. Elena is a strong woman/werewolf with a head on her shoulders and guts to do what needs to be done. In this novel, not only does she have 'bad guys' to worry about, but she's pregnant as well, and that has her worried with nightmares to match. You feel what Elena feels right down to your core and you root for her constantly.

Clay is his usual self, completely devoted to Elena, and still has his own worries and insecurities.

The plot is excellent, lots of action to keep you on your toes. Not as many love scenes, but there's a reason for that. Won't say what it is, don't want to spoil it for a potential reader. A plot twist that I really hadn't figured out until it was almost too late, and I love when an author does that to me, LOL! I think the ending is absolutely perfect - I couldn't ask for better. These novels are different than the usual vampire/werewolf/sorcerer/witch/demon novels I've read and not only do I give it a huge two-thumbs-up, but a definite recommendation!

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Overall a fairly good story, but . . .

In many ways, this was a top-notch book. The story was quite compelling and the action was enough to keep me reading. When Elena, the only female werewolf, becomes pregnant, it is a big deal and the Pack decides to try to keep it secret as long as they can. However, when Elena starts to show very early and balloon quickly, that becomes difficult. Also, Elena freaks out early on about Changing - when she discovers that this will not harm the fetus, she is OK, but the first few are rough. At any rate, the Pack goes out of their way to try to coddle her as much as possible and keep her from exerting herself if they can help it.

However, a call from Xavier Reese - a demon whom Elena met while being held during Stolen (Women of the Otherworld, Book 2) - changes things. He wants to call in his favor; he has the whereabouts of a "mutt" the Pack has been hunting and in return, he wants them to steal a letter for him (so he can sell it to a collector), reputedly written by Jack the Ripper and sent from Hell. Since Elena is going more than a little bit stir crazy, she talks Jeremy, her Alpha, into going out and stealing the letter. However, obviously, everything does not go according to plan and soon odd people start showing up and strange occurrences are in abundance. That's as much as I'll say as far as basic plot, in order to avoid spoilers.

Now, as far as what I did NOT like. Elena's attitude. She would be fretting about causing damage to the baby in one paragraph, and in the next she would be sneaking off to do something incredibly stupid, like try to run down the bad guy by herself. She would then try to do something like a round-house kick and fall on her butt. Even though she's done this something like five times already. With the exact same results. Is she just incredibly STUPID or what? No, we know she isn't stupid, so why is she being written this way in this book? If she is truly concerned over the well-being of her babies, she should not let her pride and desire to be able to protect herself go so far as to be putting herself into these sorts of situations when she KNOWS she cannot protect herself adequately! I cannot count the number of times I was reading along and she would do something like that and I just had to stop for a moment and go GOOD GRIEF are ye DAFT girl? True strength is knowing when you need to ask for help.

Other than that, though, I enjoyed the story. We got to see a bit more of Jaime, which was cool. And Zoe, a new vampire, was fun to meet - she was an interesting character who introduced us to yet another interesting one, in the person of Tee, who was all kinds of creepy.

I just ordered the 7th in the series today, so I'm eagerly awaiting it to see where else Kelley Armstrong takes this series! A recommend, overall, from me.

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Good Read!

I like this series but I sometimes find myself frustrated with the characters. It seems in every book the main character, expecially Elena, have momentary lapses of stupidity. They make the same mistakes over and over again. It always works itself out but I think by this point they would have gained some insight. I am excited to read the next book. I hope it will be good.

Broken

Elena is the only female werewolf. Werewolves are either born with the gene - and it's only passed to boys - or bitten and women usually die. Except Elena. Elena was Bitten but she lived.
The pregnancy is troubling - there hasn't been a werewolf pregnancy so no one knows what to expect. It would be an understatement to say she was bored witless, so when something comes up that requires her expertise - and seems harmless - she jumps at it.

Of course, it isn't harmless. Elena inadvertently opens a time portal and a serial killer and 2 zombies are loose in Toronto. Elena, Clay and Jeremy stay in Toronto to try to send the serial killer and his zombies back. Along the way, they ask Zoe, a vampire, and Jaime, the necromancer, for help. For some reason, the serial killer and his zombies are targeting Elena specifically. The Pack and its friends have to find out why and what to do to close the time portal.

The ending is nearly saccharine but the reader - at least this reader - can't help but cheer for Elena and Clay.

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Wasn't thrilled but loved Elena too much to not read

I have to admit Kelley Armstrong's use of sex and violence really makes the werewolf series.
This book confused me a little during most of the plot. The reader isn't really given all of the info up until the second to last chapter and i think I would have liked it better if it made more sense.
I also disliked a pregnant woman being in those situations, but I did think it was a good way to keep the reader hooked.

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