Bitten
Kelley Armstrong
436 pages
Published 2001
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Bitten is the first in a paranormal romance series called Women of the Otherworld, which spans 13 books plus various novellas. I found it in a pile that my friend was giving away, and figured it would make a nice change from all the thrillers. Unfortunately I think I’m about ten years too late for this series – I used to love this sort of thing, but now just found the snarky impulsive heroine annoying and the love triangle beyond tedious.
Elena is the world’s only female werewolf, but she has rejected her pack and is trying to live a normal human life. Then her alpha summons her home to help with a murder investigation, and she is forced to choose between her safe but boring life, and the call of her wild side…
This was first published in 2001 and has held up pretty well for a book which is nearly 25 years old. I see it was turned into a two season TV series, which looks good from the trailer, but isn’t currently available to stream in NZ. I guess werewolves and vampires have had their moment. I quite liked the premise here, and the world building was ok. I did not like the gratuitous animal killing scenes – I get that these are werewolves who hunt to eat, it just didn’t need to show this so graphically. It’s longer than is usual for this genre with rather too much angst, but once the action got going I enjoyed it more. I’m on the fence about whether to read the sequel and rest of the series – I would like to know what happens next, so perhaps if I found it going cheap, and catch up with all my other series… yeah right.
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