REVIEW: Bitten by Kelley Armstrong

Rating: 4 out of 5.

TV Adaptation: Bitten (2014)

Bitten, a paranormal romance, was Kelley Armstrong’s debut novel and the first in the Women of the Otherworld series. Elena Michaels is the only female werewolf to exist, and she really wishes that was not the case. She is determined, no matter how detrimental to her health, to live a ‘content’ human life—to an extent—that she thinks she would have had before, but unfortunately, trouble is brewing back at Stonehaven and her pack needs her. Whether she needs them or whether she wants them, that’s her choice to make.

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REVIEW: Crying Wolf by Rochelle Paige

Rating: 3 out of 5.

Crying Wolf is a werewolf shifter romance by Rochelle Paige, the first in the Black River Pack Trilogy. Grace Shaw has been forced to run from everyone she has left in the world because a dangerous ex-boyfriend has friends in high places. In running, she finds a place to work in Wolf Point, owned by Hunter Tate. Grace tries to keep her distance from Hunter, and Hunter tries to give her time, but fate is stronger than will, and unfortunately, trouble never stays where you left it, especially if trouble is crazy.

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REVIEW: The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

Rating: 5 out of 5.

Film Adaptation: The Hunger Games (2012)

The Hunger Games is a young adult dystopian novel by Suzanne Collins and the first in the Hunger Games Trilogy. It follows the main protagonist, Katniss Everdeen, a sixteen-year-old girl who is forced to make the only choice she can when she steps forward to take her young sister’s place in the televised fight for survival, The Hunger Games. Twelve boys and girls have to fight against not only themselves but the game they were put in until one victor comes out alive. But Katniss has been living off of her flight or fight instinct for five years; she only knows the fight for survival, and she will not go down easily.

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