Welcome to “This is No Longer a Book Club”.

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The Summer Selection is—Bitten, by Kelley Armstrong, and our fearless facilitator for this round of book and idle chat is Theresa Dekker—who also designed the quiz below. 

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OKAY, LET’S GET OUR TEETH INTO THIS…

1.  In Bitten, Elena Michaels is the only one of her kind. What is she?

2. Current fiction leads us to believe there are two ways to become like the characters in our book choice. What are they?

3. If you were to transform into the race depicted in our book choice, it is said you will see an increase in your speed, strength, aggressiveness and…?

4. In Bitten the story revolves around a fictional race whose ruling body is the Pack. What name is used for those who do not belong to the Pack?

5. The 2004 movie Underworld starred Kate Beckinsale as a death dealer, a mortal enemy of the race you’ll read about in Bitten. What race was she?

6. It is believed that the only way to eliminate the creatures of Bitten is with a weapon of which metal?

7. In 1941 which actor’s portrayal of the creatures found in Bitten, forever catapulted them into the public consciousness?

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(12) Theresa
Sat, 21 August 2010 02:54:15 +0000
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I have to confess that when I was first asked to be facilitator if we had Bitten as the book selection I had to ask who Kelley was. I read Bitten a couple of days later. I found the beginning slow but once I got further into the book I liked both her unique concept for a werewolf society and Elena, the protagonist.

After that I decided to read a more recent book so I chose Frostbitten. The rest of the books I bought at the June & July breakfasts. The books I described here continue the story of the characters in Bitten.

Kelley also has two novels about a female hitwoman named Nadia - Exit Strategy & Made to be Broken. If werewolves don't appeal to some readers they may want to try these books instead. For me these are keepers.

I do read this genre, fantasy-horror but there are far more books about vampires than werewolves. And not all Kelley's books are about werewolves. She has necromancers, demons, witches - I still have those books to get to. I think I can relate to these books because that is the type of novel that I am writing. It was never my intention but that is what comes out on the page so that's what I'm writing.

I also read other genres - romance, espionoge, fantasy, adventure ... And thanks to you, Carin, I have expanded my usual reading material to include the last couple of book club selections. I can't say they were my favourites but it did open my mind to the other literature out there.

I'm interested to hear what others think about Kelley's writing & the genre. I'm not sure how many members enjoy the fantasy related genre but I love it.