Favourite

I found this book, completely by accident, when browsing the shelves of a bookshop in Worcester (UK): you know how people use the phrase don't judge a book by its cover, well taken literally I think the phrase is rubbish, the cover is what makes you pick up a book off a shelf before you even know what it is about. Anyway, it was the cover (or at least its spine) that made me pick it up; it was purple. So I took it off the shelf, looked at the cover (the best way i can describe its image is as a celtic symbol-style wolf), and then I read the blurb on the back, which read something like this:

Elena Michaels is your regular twenty-first century girl: self-assured, smart and fighting fit. She also just happens to be the only female werewolf in the world...
It has some good points.When she walks down a dark alleyway, she's the scary one. But now her Pack - the one she abandoned so that she could live a normal life - are in trouble, and they need her help. Is she willing to risk her life to helped the ex-lover who betrayed her by turning her into a werewolf in the first place? And, more to the point, does she have a choice?
(Source: www.play.com)

I couldn't resist and delved into the prologue as I sat on the floor of this bookshop, until I was interrupted 20minutes later. There was no decision to be made - the book was mine. The first time I read it was probably about April 2005, and I have since read it several times. The book?

Bitten - Kelley Armstrong

Simply put, Bitten is my comfort book. I love it because I can read it over and over again, never getting tired of it, and because it suits my mood whether I am happy or having a hard time. It is not just another tale, where human meets supernatural and they flal in love and then have to problems and consequences arising from their relationship, it has a plot, a twisting storyline that you won't see coming. The characters are strong, and you find yourself associating with them.
If you want to take a look for yourself, I'd recommend Armstrong's website which has excerpts of all her published works plus lots of online fiction.
www.kelleyarmstrong.com