Bitten

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

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bitten - Rated
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 - Rated
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 - Rated
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.

Could I missing something? - Rated
The writing style and wit used are excellent. But 5 stars for this book is unbelieveable. I bought this book based on the reviews and have been disapointed. The author is an excellent writer but not a story maker. It felt as if i was reading a biography.
Overall this book deserves 3 & a half stars.

You'll be biting for more. - Rated
I first read this fantastic story from my local library. Naturally I then went and bought this book from a bookshop. The story is very well told. Kelly Armstrong is going to be a fab author. You will not be disappointed by her narrated story telling. I think this first story of Kelly's should be turned into a feature film, it's that good. I give this first in the series book 10/10 in my mind.