BOOK REVIEWS I: BITTEN (by Katharina Ludwig 4ºESO)

Kelley Armstrong
She was born in 1968, the oldest of four siblings in Ontario.
She is notable for including many types of supernatural characters, including witches, sorcerers, werewolves, ghosts, shamans, demons and vampires, rather than limiting herself primarily to a single type of supernatural creature. Most of her works have a mystery genre plot, with leading characters investigating some novel situation or unsolved question.

Novels:

The Women of the Otherworld series:

Bitten (2001)

Stolen (2002)

Dime Store Magic (2004)

Industrial Magic (2004)

Haunted (2005)

Broken (2006)

No Humans Involved (2007)

Personal Demon (2008)

Living with the Dead (2008)

Frostbitten (2009)

Short stories in anthologies

Plan B

Death Dealer

Chaotic

Twilight

Stalked

The Ungrateful Dead

The Darkest Powers Series

The Summoning (released July 1, 2008).

The Awakening (released April 28, 2009).

The Reckoning (releasing May 1, 2010).

Bitten is the book I read. It’s about the live of the only existing female werewolf on earth, and she’s tired of it. She is tired of her life trying to hide and run away or follow and kill others. She tries to fit into the human world, but since she lived half of her life with werewolfs, she doesn’t know much about humans culture. When her werewolf pack is in trouble, she has to fly over and help them, Jeremy the Alpha, (pack leader) called her to come, she must obey him, even if she doesn’t want to, because Jeremy saved her life when she was bitten, and helped her understand her wolf-side. The reason why Elena needed to help was because a “mutt”, an outsider werewolf, that doesn’t know how to control its power and kills innocent people, is making trouble, and Elena and the pack need to find him and kill him, so that the humans don’t cause too much trouble investigating. Soon they discover that not only one mutt, but a whole group of mutts, is trying to take down the pack, after an intresting and estrategic fight, the pack gets the mutts down, but they lose some members of the pack too, which die in the fight.

It was a really nice book, her writing made it possible for me to think that maybe supernatural creatures exist, because everything sounded so real: how they hide, and how no one notices. I’d love to see a film of it, because it was simply amazing.