Ink_Impressions reviewed Bitten by Kelley Armstrong (Otherworld, #1)
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1 star
The plot was boring, but I couldn’t finish this book because the writing was terrible.
The problem began when Elena returned to her pack. Despite her troubled past, she quickly returned to the wolves, defying her desire for a normal life and strength as a woman. Phillip initially put me off because I thought he was being too domineering. He demanded she not go out alone at night, like she can’t protect herself. It also made me dislike Elena because she just accepted, despite her excuse of wanting to maintain their relationship, that he didn’t understand why she needed to turn into a wolf, and therefore couldn’t be told: “Hey, mister! I’m an adult! I can go where I want to, alone if I choose!”
Clayton is probably the most disgusting love interest I have encountered in a book. Am I the only one who finds their first sex scene …
The plot was boring, but I couldn’t finish this book because the writing was terrible.
The problem began when Elena returned to her pack. Despite her troubled past, she quickly returned to the wolves, defying her desire for a normal life and strength as a woman. Phillip initially put me off because I thought he was being too domineering. He demanded she not go out alone at night, like she can’t protect herself. It also made me dislike Elena because she just accepted, despite her excuse of wanting to maintain their relationship, that he didn’t understand why she needed to turn into a wolf, and therefore couldn’t be told: “Hey, mister! I’m an adult! I can go where I want to, alone if I choose!”
Clayton is probably the most disgusting love interest I have encountered in a book. Am I the only one who finds their first sex scene uncomfortable? Despite their ‘complex’ relationship, I could not tolerate him. In knowing that the book would focus on their dynamic, I just couldn’t go on, as it’s everything I dislike in a romance - a first love who destroys a female character’s life by making some horrendous decision that she cannot return from, yet she ends up with him, anyway. How is that okay? A man who trapped her shattered her hopes and dreams, unable to move forward or shake off his influence.
Phillip had grown on me, despite Elana’s declaration that she loved him. He appeared to be understanding and kind. Elena could go from ‘I love him, my human boyfriend’ to ‘I don’t want sex with my ex, but since he has already won the right to take me into the woods in a game of cards and tie me to a tree...’ in less than seven chapters, I couldn’t handle it.
Find another author who offers good writing, intriguing characters, and somewhat interesting plots. In the end, the lack of character development and plot structure left me disappointed.
