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Title | Bitten
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Author | Kelly Armstrong
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Cover Art | Monica Rodriguez
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Publisher | Random House - 2009
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First Printing | 2001
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Title | Stolen
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Author | Kelly Armstrong
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Cover Art | Alain Daussin
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Publisher | Random House - 2002
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First Printing | 2002
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Title | Dime Store Magic
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Author | Kelly Armstrong
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Cover Art | Dominic Harman
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Publisher | Orbit - 2005
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First Printing | Orbit - 2004
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Title | Industrial Magic
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Author | Kelly Armstrong
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Cover Art | Franco Accornero
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Publisher | Seal Books - 2004
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First Printing | 2004
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Title | Haunted
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Author | Kelly Armstrong
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Cover Art | Dominic Harman
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Publisher | Orbit - 2005
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First Printing | Orbit - 2005
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Title | Broken
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Author | Kelly Armstrong
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Title | No Humans Involved
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Title | Personal Demon
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Title | Living with the Dead
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Title | Frostbitten
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Title | Waking the Witch
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Title | Spellbound
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Title | Thirteen
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Category | Urban Fantasy
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Warnings | Sex, violence
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Main Characters | Elena, Clay, Jeremy, Paige, Savannah, Lucas, Cassandra, Aaron, Eve, Jaime, Kris
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Main Elements | Werewolves, witches, sorcerers, demons, vampires, ghosts, angels
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Website | kelleyarmstrong.com
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 Bitten
Smart, sexy, and supernatural, meet the Women of the Otherworld.
Elena Michaels is the world's onlyl female werewolf - and she's tired of it. Tired of a life spent hiding and protecting, tired of a world that not only accepts the worst in her - her temper, her violence - but requires it. Worst of all, Elena realizes she's growing content with that life, with being that person. Overwhelmed by the new passions coursing through her body, Elena leaves the Pack and moves to the city to try living as a human. When the Pack leader calls to ask for her help fighting a sudden uprising, she only agrees because she owes him. Once this is over, she'll be squared with the Pack and free to live life as a human. Which is what she wants. Really.
An erotically charged thriller, Bitten will awaken the voracious appetite of every reader, as the age-old battle between human and beast comes to a head in one small town and within one woman's body.
Stolen
Even though she's the world's only female werewolf, Elena Michaels is just a regular girl at heart, and like any regular girl, she certainly doesn't believe in witches. But when two small ridiculously feminine women manage to hurl her against a wall, and then save her from the hunters on her tail, Elena realizes that maybe there are more things in heaven and earth than she dreamt of.
Vampires, demons, shamans, witches - in Stolen they all exist, and they're all under attack. An obsessed tycoon with a sick curiosity is well on his way to amassing a private collection of supernaturals, and plans to harness their powers for himself - even if it means killing them. For Elena, kidnapped and imprisoned deep underground, separated from her Pack, unable to tell her friends from her enemies, choosing the right allies is a matter of life and death.
Dime Store Magic
Paige Winterbourne is a witch. Not that you'd notice - no warts, no green skin, no cute little wiggle of the nose whenever she casts a spell. No, most of the time she's just a normal twenty-three-year-old girl: works too hard, worries about her weight, wonders if she'll ever find a boyfriend. Okay, so she does have an adopted teenage daughter, Savannah, who wants to raise her black witch of a mother from the dead. And who is being stalked by a telekenetic half-demon and an all-powerful cabal of sorcerers. But other than that, Paige has a really ordinary life. That is, until the neighbours find out who she is, and all hell breaks loose. Literally...
Industrial Magic
In the aftermath of her mother's murder, Paige broke with the elite, ultraconservative American Coven of Witches. Now her goal is to start a new Coven for a new generation. But while Paige pitches her vision to uptight thirty-something witches in business suits, a more urgent matter commands her attention.
Someone is murdering the teenage offspring of the underworld's most influential Cabals - a circle of families that makes the mob look like amateurs. And none is more powerful than the Cortez Cabal, a faction Paige is intimately acquainted with. Lucas Cortez, the rebel son and unwilling heir, is none other than her boyfriend. But love isn't blind, and Paige has her eyes wide open as she is drawn into a hunt for an unnatural-born killer. Pitted against shamans, demons, and goons, it's a battle chilling enough to make a wild young woman grow up in a hurry. If she gets the chance.
Haunted
Eve Levine - half-demon, black witch and devoted mother - has been dead for three years. She 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...
I started in April and now and I've gone through three of the books so far. I wasn't planning on ever reading this series, I thought it was like a lot of the urban fantasy with female leads out there, thinly veiled erotica. But one of my friends got a bunch of the books from a friend of hers and passed them along to me after she read them. So I figured why not give them a try.
I was very pleasantly suprised. The sex was in fact minimal (well, Elena and Clayton can be a bit over the top at times, but it's not the core of the stories). In fact not only can these women kick butt without whining or being "special snowflakes", but they don't need men to prop them up. In fact I really enjoyed what romance there was, and there wasn't any insta-love!
The only problem? Well, my friend didn't seem to care what order she read the books in...argh. I'm actually quite picky about that, even in series where it isn't a single storyline. The author wrote them in a certain order, and even if they propose other orders, I always go with the published one because that's the order in which characters and worldbuilding is exposed. Even in loosely connected books, there is still a sequence to follow! Fortunately Dime Store Magic didn't need me to be familiar with Paige from Stolen.
Armstrong has created an interesting mix of supernaturals, each with their own specific rules (werewolves that are born are always male, though people can be bitten, witches always female, sorcerors always male, half-demons don't pass along their powers, etc) and each of the races have their own history, traditions, and misconceptions about the other races.
And the characters are engaging, interesting, and imperfect, but I never found them annoying. So while my friend's friend only had four of the books, I'm already buying the rest for myself.
July 2017
I'm really liking the pairing of Paige and Lucas and am happy to return to their story. Now, I have to wonder why the title is called Industrial Magic, sounded kind of steampunk or something but there wasn't anything Industial about this book at all, but I digress. We get introduced to a few new characters, and get to delve deeper into the nature of some of the other supernaturals such as Necromancers and Vampires, and especially the Cabal. I was divided as to whether I liked Lucas' father (he seemed to honestly love his son), and Lucas seemed a bit hard on him, but at the same time he was a tricky bugger, after all, he runs the most powerful Cabal, essentially the biggest Godfather around. One doesn't get into that position without being at least a bit of a bad guy. There's definitely still more to learn about this world within out world.
October 2020
Took me a while to get back to this series, but enjoyed the foray. In Haunted we get to see how ghosts get to spend their afterlife, and I have to admit, it seems like the afterlife it kind of fun, you can make up the house you live it, what clothes you wear, and hey, if you want to live like a pirate, or hunt in the Arctic, or whatever you enjoy most, you can just wish it into being, so long of course you aren't in one of the hell dimensions being punished for what you did in life. Of course visiting the living world is not so much fun. No one can see you, or hear you, you can't interact with physical objects, so no going back to say goodbye, or you're sorry, or where to find that treasure you hid in the backyard as an inheritance. There is a little smidge of romance, a lot of humour, and an admitedly frustrating hunt after a demon wreaking havoc amonst us humans, almost catching her, but always slipping away. There isn't too much interaction with the other characters because barring a necromance, no one can interact with a ghost, but we still get to catch glimpse of the others and what they are up to.
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