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4.15 AVERAGE
4.15 AVERAGE
adventurous
challenging
mysterious
reflective
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
The Otherworld series may have ended with Thirteen back in 2012, but Kelley Armstrong has chosen to continue to tell these characters' stories through short fiction. This includes an annual novella from Subterranean Press. Now, with the exception of Hidden, which was really something special, I have found all of these novellas, including Forsaken, to be solid, but not must reads. They're nice for fans of the series who want to see what happens next, but unnecessary (and likely confusing) for people not famillair with the story thus far.
Forsaken focuses on Elena, who is struggling to be taken seriously as a female alpha in a world of misogynistic werewolves. Then, every parent's worse nightmare happens when one of her kids goes missing. The result is a book that starts and ends really interesting, even if there are times in the middle where it seems like there's a lot of running around, without too much happening. Elena's family goes through some big changes this novella, and I'm quite interested to see what this means for the future.
Forsaken is an all around enjoyable read for die-hard fans of the Otherworld series.
Forsaken focuses on Elena, who is struggling to be taken seriously as a female alpha in a world of misogynistic werewolves. Then, every parent's worse nightmare happens when one of her kids goes missing. The result is a book that starts and ends really interesting, even if there are times in the middle where it seems like there's a lot of running around, without too much happening. Elena's family goes through some big changes this novella, and I'm quite interested to see what this means for the future.
Forsaken is an all around enjoyable read for die-hard fans of the Otherworld series.
This book...this book, this book, this book...holy moly....
This book made me shake, nearly have a panic attack, and also made me worry about both Elena and Clay and their kids...
And no, no, no this book didn't make me have ideas of writing my own werewolf AU (it totally did).
But anyway...
Elena is all the way up in England, at a Alpha meeting and she hates the Alpha of the UK pack and wants to go home to her kids and husband on their family trip. She does, but not before her daughter walks out of the house and gets lost. Worried, she starts looking for her, only to catch the scent of another werewolf that should've been in Belguim, Malcolm Danvers, but it totally wasn't him as she finally found her daughter, scared, shaking and alone, but this time she saw the muscles moving and started having fears of her daughter changing into a werewolf.
So the Danvers family moved to a hotel and that's when everything came ahead. Turns out the UK pack wanted to show that Elena was a weak, hysterical mother (and they didn't), and both Kate and Logan successfully Changed into werewolves (that part makes me cringe when Kate changed) and also they didn't want to give Malcolm a chance, but they're thinking about it. And it was nice to see Hope and Karl again (sans her pregnancy from Otherworld Secrets).
This book made me shake, nearly have a panic attack, and also made me worry about both Elena and Clay and their kids...
And no, no, no this book didn't make me have ideas of writing my own werewolf AU (it totally did).
But anyway...
Elena is all the way up in England, at a Alpha meeting and she hates the Alpha of the UK pack and wants to go home to her kids and husband on their family trip. She does, but not before her daughter walks out of the house and gets lost. Worried, she starts looking for her, only to catch the scent of another werewolf that should've been in Belguim, Malcolm Danvers, but it totally wasn't him as she finally found her daughter, scared, shaking and alone, but this time she saw the muscles moving and started having fears of her daughter changing into a werewolf.
So the Danvers family moved to a hotel and that's when everything came ahead. Turns out the UK pack wanted to show that Elena was a weak, hysterical mother (and they didn't), and both Kate and Logan successfully Changed into werewolves (that part makes me cringe when Kate changed) and also they didn't want to give Malcolm a chance, but they're thinking about it. And it was nice to see Hope and Karl again (sans her pregnancy from Otherworld Secrets).
This is set several years after the last book and fro the beginning it seems to be more a power play story of Elena fighting with the UK pack. What it does develop into is the story of the twins and their growing up in the pack. The ending is a nice twist and a bit of a payoff for long time readers and the author has promised that she will write one more novella to deal with the twist. Good story but not for someone just tuning into the story.
I'm so happy that Kelley Armstrong is still revisiting the werewolf world. The twins have become my new favourite characters. That conversation they had while Elena was fighting a mutt in front of them? GIMME a series with them now!!! Looking forward to the next novella.