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: #6270 in Books
• Published on: 2004-02-26
• Original language: English
• 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

Less fluid than other paranormal romance but still gripping...
I'm finding it really hard to review "Bitten". While I did really enjoy it and have just ordered the next in the series, I found it missing something. The plot is interesting, the changes that Armstrong makes to were-wolf myth are refreshing and I really loved the how detailed and engaging she made the first person prose when the person wasn't person, they were a wolf.

However I found myself jumping entire paragraphs when Elena wouldn't stop whining endlessly. There's only so many times a character can segway into there own thoughts, when the thoughts are always the same, before the reader will get bored. Also, I wanted more information from the males of the pack, they seamed to blend into the back ground in places. Until I got to the end of the book, where a lot of history was explained, I found that I had difficulty relating to Elena and found her unreasonable in parts. Once you finish the book you understand her and her behaviour better.

On the plus side, Elena herself is an interesting character and once you learn to ignore her moaning, this is a good book. The parts were characters go wolf are beautifully written and really surprised me. They made me realise that few authors had described a "change" so well before. The pack dynamics and the many different plot lines that can stem from them in the future is I think what intrigued me the most.

I am more into the Vamp side of paranormal romance, but it was Kresley Cole's 'Immortals After Dark' series which opened me up to the other species in "para-mance's" out there. (Yes I realise I have just made up a ridiculous word but I'm fed up of typing out 'paranormal romance').

I would recommend this book to those 'para-mance' addicts out there and I look forward to enjoying the next in the series.

bitten by kelley armstrong
well what a book all id read before this were a couple of vamp books just boring stuff really so i wanted something different cant quite remember how i come across this book but wow soon as i sat down with it i was well hooked just absolutly superb i didnt realise that these were what i needed to be reading i couldnt wait till her next book and found i actually get withdrawel symptoms in between books soon as the next book is out i get an email buy it there an then recieve it and its read within two days as my family still need me to do things like cook i just love kelleys writing so easy to read yet so involved and i love letting my imagination go with it hurry with the next one already i need my fix thats all i can say gotta say tho theres another author out there that eases my symptoms jim butcher if you like kelley youll like jim try him out i wasnt disipointed

One of my all time favourite books
This is the book that got me into fantasy fiction, books about vampires and werewolves. I love all of Kelley Armstrong books. All the charactors are feisty, and likeable. And I like the way that all her books link in some way.