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October 2004
Reviews
Bitten was actually a decent book. It had okay characters, the main character however rubbed me the WRONG way. She
was nothing more than a brat Yes, she was treated horrbily as a child, yes she shouldn't of had to deal with Clay's
treachery, but hell. You grow up eventually dontcha? Not if your name's Elena. Her entire developement is retarded by
Clay's deception. Making her a singulary unpleasant character to read about, you have no empathy for her.
Gripes
| One -Elena's BITCHery | Ms. Armstrong, the author, obviously feels that showing sexual freedom means that your female charactres need to act like dogs in heat. Men who act like this get all sorts of grief from women they're dogs they're sluts. Well it's no different for women who **ck around while in a commited relationship. A whore's a whore no matter what you've got between your legs. |
| Two - The Pack | We don't get enough of these characters, there's way too much of Elena's angst to get anything good from these secondary characters. They blend together, so much I can't even remember their names. |
| Three- Clay | Come on, if he's supposed to be so crazy why does Elena fall into the sack with him everytime she gets the chance? If he hurt her so much why is she willing to deal with his arch enemy just to get him back safely? If he loves Elena so much, why doesn't he let her go? Can't he see that's he's hurting her and continues to do so? |
| Four- Nonwolves | What's up with bucking ALL the traditional sterotypes of werewolves? Some things are just accepted and if you're going to write about an established mythological character type you MUST stick within the parameters. Such as The full moon, sliver bullets and all that jazz. I can understand trying to carve your own niche, but relish in the centuries of mythos you have to work with, don't throw it out like yesterday's news. |
We decided last year to choose a more supernatural title for October in recognition of Halloween. Although it came back
to haunt us, this year we decided the same. Originally, we planned to Feature a Zombie book, but the lack of decent
choices and a certain member's unwillingness to read horror prevented that.
(Click here for my Zombie book review)
So what was the next step? Some may say ghosts or
vampires, but that was too obvious. We needed something more original.
We Needed
WEREWOLVES!
This turned out to be a fun book to read. It didn't require much suspension of disbelief and it didn't take itself too
seriously. The characters were a simple but enjoyable. The plot developed through the book and continued to grow beyond
what you expect. The plot isn't stunning but some thought definately went into the creation of it.
Gripe-time
| Gripe #1: Where wolf's powers |
My biggest disappointment in this book was the complete dimissal of werewolf myth. These
werewolves were little more than humans that shapeshift into full wolf form. To me, there are a few things necasssary to a
create a werewolf.
1. Werewolf bites create new werewolves.
I get only one of those.
2. Only killed from wounds inflicted by silver. 3. Rapid regeneration of all other wounds. 4. Forced transformation during a full moon. |
| Gripe #2: Psuedo-science of Werewolves | The author defines some strange rules to her werewolves. The biggest is that male werewolves only pass the werewolf gene, or W-Gene, to sons. Add that women seldom survive being turned by a bite and it creates a serious lack of female werewolves. If only sons inherit the W-Gene, then it must be transmitted by the Y-chromosone to prevent daughters. That being said, would a female werewolf and male human be unable to bear pups due to the lack of the W-gene? Or would the bite be passed to the fetus through her blood. |
| Gripe #3: Blue-balled | Near the end the writer does a great job of conveying the frantic energy of the main character and building it to a fevered pitch. The problem was its proximity to the end. It propelled me with such force that I expected it to hurl me forward into the climax BUT IT DIDN'T! It stopped. It drew away from the end. It let the energy die away. When the climax came, it was under-powered and weak. |
| Gripe #4: Were-hoe? | Once again, we have a female writer flexing her freed sexuality. Showing that female characters can screw as indisciminately as males. Unfortunately this female is in a committed relationship with a live-in boyfriend and he isn't a participant in her half dozen sexual escapades. That's trashy whether male or female. |
