Stolen: A Novel
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“A taut, sensual thriller that grips from the first page. Elena Michales is at once sublime and sympathetic, a modern heroine who shows that real women bite back.” -Karin Slaughter, The New York Times
Elena Michaels is back-and she has company. Lending a mission of vampires, demons, shamans, and witches, Elena is lured into the net of ruthless Internet billionaire Tyrone Winsloe, who is well on his way to amassing a private collection of supernaturals. He plans to harness their powers for himself-even if it means killing them.
For Elena, kidnapped and imprisoned deep underground, unable to tell her friends from her enemies, choosing the right allies is a matter of life and death.
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What I’ve got on my mind today is how sex is open in novels featuring werewolves. Or really, how it is NOT being described in Kelly Armstrong’s werewolf-based novels.
I read “Stolen” because I momentously loved Armstrong’s first novel, “Bitten.” As much pleasure as I got from reading “Bitten,” but, there was one thing that really annoyed me. The werewolf sex. Or really, the lack of it.
Oh, there was a lot of sex in the book. But it was all HUMAN sex! Whenever Armstrong described two werewolves having building like, they were NEVER in their lupine bodies, but as a replacement for were ALWAYS in their hairless-ape costumes!
Reading about human sex can be a fun activity. But if I want to do that, there are a slew of additional books I can read. I don’t want to read only about humans having sex in a werewolf book. I also want to read about wolves having sex, as described from the point of view of one of the wolves!
Another very different, but also reasonably enjoyable, werewolf novel I recently read was “Nadya: The Wolf Chronicles” by Pat Murphy. It’s also about a female werewolf. But a difference is that on the full moon Nadya turns into a perfectly normal wolf, not a super-powered uber-wolf like in most werewolf novels. And she has perfectly normal wolf instincts and desires during that time. And in her novel, Murphy very tastefully (and erotically) describes Nadya’s thoughts and feelings while she, as a wolf, mates with a very sexy (to me, at least) male wolf. Sigh. Now that’s the kind of writing that makes a wolf-loving woman’s heart flutter. It was far too brief for my taste, but at least it was there. Sigh.
But there was NO wolf sex in either “Bitten” or “Stolen”! And there is also NO explanation of why the characters don’t ever have wolf sex!
There was even a scene in “Stolen” where the main character (a female werewolf) and her partner (a male werewolf) had just run around as wolves and were really horny. So what did they do? They changed back into human form just to have sex! Why didn’t they do it as wolves? Beats me!
Maybe Armstrong is very traditional minded, and she simply doesn’t feel comfortable with the thought of describing wolf sex. And maybe she has such a limited imagination that she thinks that werewolves would only want to have sex as humans because she only wants to have sex with a human.
Oh, I’m not advocating the thought of humans having sex with animals. Don’t get me incorrect. But in a werewolf tale, I do delight in understanding life from their point of view. And sex is a part of life.
Pat Murphy understood how that type of thing could interest a reader. And she handled it tastefully.
This may sound petty, but because of this, I’ve lost some of my respect for Kelly Armstrong as a writer. Sex is an vital part of her novels. Well, maybe not vital — I don’t reflect the sex scenes in “Stolen” (and there were reasonably a few graphically described) really added anything to the tale. Really, they were distracting because they were SO BORING!!! The same two people having genital intercourse. Again and again. Even for human sex, it was REALLY BORING!!!
Sigh. Sorry to rant. But if Armstrong’s not going to be creative regarding sex scenes, then I reflect she should just keep them out of her future tales. Yawn.
Really, I didn’t really like the rest of “Stolen”. I thought the whole main plot thought was pretty mainstream and overused. “Bitten” caught my interest because it was original in many ways. But in “Stolen,” Armstrong didn’t expand on anything. None of the characters were further developed. As a replacement for, she just added a lot of new supernatural characters — vampires, witches, sorcerers and demons — that I reflect the tale didn’t need, and which just distracted away from the whole thing I wanted to read about — werewolves!
Murphy has several wonderfully detailed scenes (although not enough, in my opinion) describing her main character running through the woods and fields as a wolf. Armstrong did that a bit in “Bitten” — her descriptions of a deer hunt were fantastic. But in her second book, most of the time the main character was trapped in an inside compound! BORING!
I’m certainly thinking about writing Armstrong a letter of complaint. But as conservative as she seems to be (based on her lack of imagination regarding sex in her tales), I figure she’ll reflect that anyone who’s interested in wolf sex is a nutcase. My hopes for her upcoming third werewolf novel are, sorry to say, no longer very high. Sigh.
Oh, well. On to my next werewolf novel — the Tattooed Wolf, by Kim Bannerman. From what I hear, Bannerman really understands the mind of a shape shifter. I’ll keep my fingers crossed.
Reader’s Rating: 2 / 5
Terrible plot
Terrible characterization
Bone idle writing
unbelievable storyline
I felt cheated and really wanted to return the book for a refund. This is the last book that I will buy from Kelly Armstrong.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
Finally a sequel with merit. In fleeting, it was fantastic — but I won’t bore you with another review, just give you my thoughts on the characters. Elena is Kate Bosworth (Blue Crush, Remember the Titans). I deffinitely imagine Clay as a younger Matthew McConaughey (Shortcoming, How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days) and Jeremy as Peter Gallagher (American Beauty, the OC). Savannah seems like a prepubescent Christina Ricci (Now and Then, Casper), I picture Leah as Alicia Witt (Mr. Holland’s Opus, Cybill, Urban Legend), Adam as Joshua Jackson (The Skulls, Dawson’s Creek), Cassandra as Catherine Zeta-Jones (Entrapment, Chicago), Katzen as Alex Desert (Boy Meets World, Becker), Paige as a young blonde Sarah Jessica Parker (Footloose, Sex and the City), Winsloe as Eric Stoltz (The Rules of Attractions, The House of Mirth), and Bauer as Allison Janney (The West Wing, How to Deal).
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
While i loved Bitten, and gave it 4 stars, it didnt have that special something which made me go ‘wow.’
Stolen did.
While some parts of the book were weird, like a zillionaire with a weird video game obsession, the rest of the book was fun fun fun.
I went through this book in a few days with its frantic and action packed movie pacing. The fleeting chapters of Armstrong are some of my favorite for thier pacing. They arent long winded with a lot of usesless dialogue…
And thankfully, there is a lot less of Elena/Clay getting it on.
I didnt delight in persons animalistic parts that were heavy in Bitten so thats a excellent thing that there were less of them.
Stolen is also the book which introduces her witches, which i like better than her wolves…
Paige and Savanna are permanently amusing to read and the butt kicking Adam and Leah are also here for the first time.
All of persons characters are extremely intresting and really get better in the later books.
All in all, i loved this book and reflect Armstrong gets better with each successing novel. I cant wait for her latest, Haunted…
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
When Elena Michaels was bitten by Clay Danvers, she couldn’t have even come close to understanding the gift he had agreed her. Here was a young woman who had a terribly sad childhood (parents dead, copious foster homes…)and the man she loved bit her and turned her into the only female werewolf. Sound dreadful?? Not on your life! Elena and Clay’s relationship is the core in Ms. Armstrong’s two wonderful books, Bitten, and Stolen, for me. The Pack is Elena’s family tree (wonderful characters I want to get to know better) whose like and loyalty are agreed to Elena in every possible way. Clay and Elena’s relationship add such fascinating and gorgeous depth to Ms. Armstrong’s two thrillers ….(well, my only complaint is that I want their firey, intense yet playful and very fierce like for each additional *heavily* written about in hopefully many more books to come). I want to be able to *see* Elena’s world more regularly. If only Ms. Armstrong could write quicker. I will reflect about her lovely lethal Elena, who makes me laugh out loud and like her every step of the killing way with her smart and *this property is condemned* self. I feel like a lucky person myself to have been Bitten by Kelley Armstrong’s writing. Like one reader posted, you reflect about these characters long after the book has been read.
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5