Product Description

Eve Levine - half-demon, black witch and devoted mother - has been dead for three years. She has a great house, an interesting love life and can't be killed again - which comes in handy when you've made as many enemies as Eve. Yes, the afterlife isn't too bad - all she needs to do is find a way to communicate with her daughter Savannah and she'll be happy.

But fate - or more exactly, the Fates - have other plans. Eve owes them a favour, and they've just called it in. An evil spirit called the Nix has escaped from hell. She feeds on chaos and death, and is very good at persuading people to kill for her. The Fates want Eve to hunt her down before she does any more damage, but the Nix is a dangerous enemy - previous hunters have been sent mad in the process. As if that's not problem enough, it turns out that the only way to stop her is with an angel's sword. And Eve's no angel…

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #16828 in Books
• Published on: 2004-02-26
• Binding: Paperback
• 464 pages

Amazon.co.uk Review
Elena, heroine of Kelley Armstrong's impressive debut thriller Bitten, never planned that a casual sexual encounter would transform her into a werewolf. Neither did Clay, her lover and one of the leaders of the exclusive werewolf clique known as the Pack; women do not generally change or survive if they do. Elena's considerable reservations about her new life come to a head and she walks out on the Pack to return to something like normality, finding herself a boyfriend who turns a blind eye to her occasional disappearances in the middle of the night. She may have done with the infighting of werewolves, but they have not done with her; her former family call her back when they find themselves under threat from those they have excluded and dominated. Kelley Armstrong is very good on the sheer exhilaration of shape-changing, of running on four feet through forests, suburban greenery and urban back alleys; if there is a weakness here, it is that Elena's relationship with the taciturn, untrustworthy Clay is sometimes a little too conventionally romantic--but the dark poetry of the best of the book overcomes this entirely. --Roz Kaveney

Karin Slaughter
'Kelley Armstrong is one of my favourite writers'

Synopsis
Elena Michaels is a model woman for the 21st century: self-assured, keenly intelligent, fighting fit. And like every modern woman, she has her secrets. Nothing extraordinary about that. Except that Elena really is extraordinary. In fact, she may well be the most extraordinary woman alive. She is, after all, the only female werewolf in the world...Ten years ago, against her will, Elena's lover turned her into a werewolf. Some days it feels like a gift. Most days it feels like a curse. A year ago, she decided to live as a human. Now she has to go back to New York State, her old home. Her pack is under seige by a new group of violent, psychotic werewolves that shows no respect for the old ways, and no respect for territory. Forced into helping her old friends, Elena soon slips back into the reassuring camaradarie of the pack, though she struggles against her dangerous, unpredictable desires. Hunting down her enemies, Elena prowls through territories usually barred to women. From dangerous back alleys to the dark, luscious forests of New York State, she must hunt and destroy the renegade pack before they destroy her.

Customer Reviews

bitten
Bitten is an acurate title for this stroy, as once you start reading it you cant put it down, it is like it sinks it's teeth into you. this book is truely amazing, i haven't read a werewolf book this interesting yet. i would reccommed this book to anyone who loves a good werewolf story.

Brilliant book: a funny, bitingly sarcastic and witty novel with a fantastic writing style
Though I'm still quite new to the paranormal, urban mystery universe, I ahve read quite a few novels recently in the genre, and I have to tell you that Bitten by Kelley Armstrong is THE best one of all.

The writing style and quality are amazing, really brilliant! I definitely will read more from Kelley Armstrong. (And apparently Angelina Jolie after reading the novel and loving it so much has bought the rights to do it, so the movie is in the works.)

Not only the writing style is fantastic, but it is funny, bitingly sarcastic at times, the heroine is a great one. It all praises Kelley Armstrong's storytelling qualities that even though the heroine keeps resisting the hero' advances, that she keeps on hating him, being angry with him and not forgiving him that he is the one responsible for changing her, that she won't even consider or hear him out why he did it, that inspite of all this you don't want to slap Elena and really tell her a piece of your mind, no, thanks to Kelley Armstrong's great writing you feel for her frustration and anger. That even though you see and understand why Clay changed her, and your heart goes out to him, at the same time you sympathize with Elena too and completely understand her anger and bitterness. Kelley Armstrong does it all brilliantly.

As Joanne Harris, author of Chocolat (quite a different kind of book, is it not?) has said of this book: "It's clever, quirky, hip, and funny, skating between genres with style and grace. More please!" I can only second that. This book has so many sub-genres, it is quite hard to label it. Great read, will definitely check out the other books in the series, anything more by Kelley Armstrong!

Boring and Predictable
I bought this book after reading the reviews, and was extremely disappointed. It reads more like a love story than anything else, the main focus of the book seems to be who the heroine is going to end up with (and the answer to that is pretty obvious from very early on) there's very little action and what there is isn't particularly inventive or gripping. Judging by the other reviews I seem to be alone in my opinion, but I like fantasy novels not romantic fiction so for me this was definitely a turkey.