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A review by blurrypetals
Bitten by Kelley Armstrong
4.0
Audible was having a sale on books that were the beginning of series, so I perused through the list to see if there was anything that sounded like fun and, since I'm calling this month Fantasy February, I wanted to keep with the theme and read another fantasy book, and because I just got done with a big awesome series, it was just about time for me to read something trashy and inconsequential to sort of hit my internal reset button. This was on that $4.95 list, it was rated "Sizzling" on Audible's romance package, the narrator wasn't bad, and that, ladies and gentlemen, is all it takes for me to buy an audiobook sometimes. Cheap? Steamy? Not unpleasant to the ear canals? I am sold, my dudes.
I got exactly what I paid for, exactly what I expected, and exactly what I needed. I have some desire to maybe - and that is the absolute softest maybe you will ever see from me - find out what happens to Elena and Clay in the sequels (which they are apparently not in all of anyway) so I might return to see what's up if I get into a slump later this year, after I've read 86 books and I'm having a hard time finding things at my local library or for cheap on Audible. It'll be a really good "back burner" series to kind of have for moments like that, where I just can't decide what to read so I decide a figurative coma for the thinking parts of my brain is best for the next couple of shifts at work (which, if you didn't know, is where I listen to all my books).
I realize I haven't talked much about what the book is like or how I felt about certain parts, but honestly, you can take this book at face value in its entirety. It's dumb, sexy fun. You don't have to remember which fictional countries all the different characters come from like I had to with a certain Ravka- and Kerch-set series I've recently finished. You barely have to remember anyone's names, you just have to be able to have an attention span equivalent to that of a goldfish and you'll be good, promise.
I got exactly what I paid for, exactly what I expected, and exactly what I needed. I have some desire to maybe - and that is the absolute softest maybe you will ever see from me - find out what happens to Elena and Clay in the sequels (which they are apparently not in all of anyway) so I might return to see what's up if I get into a slump later this year, after I've read 86 books and I'm having a hard time finding things at my local library or for cheap on Audible. It'll be a really good "back burner" series to kind of have for moments like that, where I just can't decide what to read so I decide a figurative coma for the thinking parts of my brain is best for the next couple of shifts at work (which, if you didn't know, is where I listen to all my books).
I realize I haven't talked much about what the book is like or how I felt about certain parts, but honestly, you can take this book at face value in its entirety. It's dumb, sexy fun. You don't have to remember which fictional countries all the different characters come from like I had to with a certain Ravka- and Kerch-set series I've recently finished. You barely have to remember anyone's names, you just have to be able to have an attention span equivalent to that of a goldfish and you'll be good, promise.