Elena’s life is complicated because she hasn’t fit in, even before she was bitten and turned-she bounced from foster family to foster family, and her abuse at their hands hardened her resolve to make something of her life, marry a nice guy, and be a successful human being. I can’t sympathize with someone struggling to be a werewolf. It helps that the novel starts with a fairly extensive prologue that’s all about Elena’s struggle to be human. Bitten definitely takes my werewolf prejudice and buries it deeply as Armstrong makes me care about Elena’s plight and the plight of her pack. If the Kelley Armstrong’s writing in the sequels is half as good as it is in this novel, then I’m eager to read them. And while Bitten might be a werewolf novel, I’m given to understand that the Women of the Otherworld series embraces supernatural creatures of all stripes. But there are always exceptions to the rule, such as the Kitty Norville series. I think it’s the pack mentality aspect that freaks me out-that and the related posturing for alpha-male dominance. Much like zombie fiction, I tend to habitually give werewolf fiction a miss.
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