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Summary:

Elena Michaels is the world’s only female werewolf. And she’s tired of it. Tired of a life spent hiding and protecting, a life where her most important job is hunting down rogue werewolves. Tired of a world that not only accepts the worst in her— her temper, her violence—but requires it. Worst of all, she realizes she’s growing content with that life, with being that person.

So she left the Pack and returned to Toronto where she’s trying to live as a human. When the Pack leader calls asking for her help fighting a sudden uprising, she only agrees because she owes him. Once this is over, she’ll be squared with the Pack and free to live life as a human. Which is what she wants. Really.

Summary:-

When a young witch tells Elena that a group of humans are kidnapping supernaturals, Elena ignores the warning. After all, everyone knows there’s no such thing as witches. As for the thought of other ‘supernaturals’, well, she’d just rather not dwell on the possibility. Soon, however, she’s confronted with the truth about her world, when she’s kidnapped and thrown into a cell-block with witches, sorcerers, half-demons and other werewolves. As Elena soon discovers, dealing with her fellow captives is the least of her worries. In this prison, the real monsters carry the keys.

First things first, I'm totally in love with Clay. I don't even care that he calls Elena 'darling.' I just LOVE him.

Second.. these are GREAT books. Not only do you have that mystical/mythical aspect with Elena and co being werewolves (although not your typical werewolf by any stretch of the imagination), you have romance and ACTION! Definitely not just your ordinary action either. This is more like blending man eating wolves with a touch of Law and Order (although no law and most of the time order is a lil iffy) or even a bit of Criminal Minds. The heart of the first book is Elena coming to terms with just who she is. Yes, ten years ago she was bitten and is the only female werewolf known because most of the time, any female that is bitten is usually dinner after wards. Not so in Elena's case and as the story winds its way through the first book, you find out why. Elena has been absent for the past year from The Pack, attempting to fit in more with the human world, has a job, has a partner who lives with her.. oh and every 5 - 7 days she escapes into the nature park nearby to Change into wolfy form and go for a run.

Perfectly normal.

She gets this message on her phone from 'her family' and after weighing the pros and cons of going to see them (if she doesn't show, they'll come and get her) she heads back to New York from her Canadian home and things are exactly the way she left them. Jeremy, The Pack's Alpha, informs her they have a Mutt problem, a little too close to home. See, there's this difference in class order in the werewolf world. To be Pack is to have territory, to have brothers and to not be Pack, means your on your own unless you fuck up too many times and eat people.. then The Pack will poke their nose in and they're the last thing you'll see. A simple find the problem and 'deal' with it turns into something a lot more complicated making Elena's short trip 'to help with her brother's children' extended.

Add to that the whole Pack is together for the first time in a long time and one overly affectionate and territorial male's push and pull with our lead female, and you have a story that pulls you in and before you know it you're finished that first book.

The second takes up a few months after the first book finishes. Life is seemingly back to normal for The Pack and Elena until a meeting with two ladies over a cup of tea and scones turns into the Underworlds version of the Mystic and Mythical's UN. Elena ends up being taken hostage by a scary brand of 'collectors' and the action is back and even better this time around.

Personally, I read both of these over two afternoon/nights. I love them, I can't wait to get home and start the next two that my darling sister has let me borrow and I'm sure I'll be needing the next after that (there are eleven in the series with the twelfth due out next year). From what I can tell, they work in pairs, the main character in the first book features in the second, then side characters from the second will become lead in the next two. Basically, you fall in love with the first lot of characters, meet some new ones in the next, say goodbye to the first lot and follow the second into their own story for two books. Interesting way to spin a long tale and personally I think clever, because you have the same 'world' just a whole new arc and mythical powers to play with.

So pretty much 4/5 GO READ NAOS

Author Website | Prologue to Bitten


Stolen by Kelley Armstrong


This was even better than the first. I LOVE CLAY and I'll be sad not to read about he and Elena in the third book, but MUCH looking forward to what happens with Paige and Savannah in book three!


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