“Frisky...Tells a rather sweet love story, and suggests that being a wolf may be more comfortable for a strong, smart woman than being human.”—The New York Times Book Review

Elena Michaels is the world’s only female werewolf. And she’s tired of it. Tired of a life spent hiding and protecting, a life where her most important job is hunting down rogue werewolves. Tired of a world that not only accepts the worst in her–her temper, her violence—but requires it. Worst of all, she realizes she’s growing content with that life, with being that person.

So she left the Pack and returned to Toronto where she’s trying to live as a human. When the Pack leader calls asking for her help fighting a sudden uprising, she only agrees because she owes him. Once this is over, she’ll be squared with the Pack and free to live life as a human. Which is what she wants. Really.

Listening Length

12 hours and 54 minutes
Author

Kelley Armstrong
Narrator

Aasne Vigesaa
Audible release date

June 14, 2022
Language

English
Publisher

Penguin Audio
ASIN

B09XBYRSQM
Version

Unabridged
Program Type

Audiobook
See all details

Read & Listen

Switch between reading the Kindle book & listening to the Audible narration with Whispersync for Voice.
Get the Audible audiobook for the reduced price of $12.99 after you buy the Kindle book.

Your audiobook is waiting!

Click above for unlimited listening to select audiobooks, Audible Originals, and podcasts.
One credit a month to pick any title from our entire premium selection — yours to keep (you'll use your first credit now).
You will get an email reminder before your trial ends.
$14.95 a month after 30 days. Cancel online anytime.

Learn more about membership

List Price: ~~$16.95~~

You Save: $2.12 (13%)

By completing your purchase, you agree to Audible’s Conditions Of Use

Sold and delivered by Audible, an Amazon company

People who viewed this also viewed

Page 1 of 1Start OverPage 1 of 1

Stolen: Women of the Otherworld, Book 2
Kelley Armstrong
762
Audible Audiobook
$0.00 Free with Audible trial
Dime Store Magic: Women of the Otherworld, Book 3
Kelley Armstrong
672
Audible Audiobook
$0.00 Free with Audible trial
Omens
Kelley Armstrong
1,132
Audible Audiobook
$0.00 Free with Audible trial
A Rip Through Time: A Novel
Kelley Armstrong
1,183
Audible Audiobook
$0.00 Free with Audible trial
The Summoning: Darkest Powers, Book 1
Kelley Armstrong
1,094
Audible Audiobook
$0.00 Free with Audible trial

People who bought this also bought

Page 1 of 1Start OverPage 1 of 1

Related to this topic

Page 1 of 1Start OverPage 1 of 1

Baby, I'm Howling For You
Christine Warren
231
Audible Audiobook
$0.00 Free with Audible trial
Stray: Shifters, Book 1
Rachel Vincent
497
Audible Audiobook
$0.00 Free with Audible trial
Kitty and The Midnight Hour: Kitty Norville, Book 1
Carrie Vaughn
554
Audible Audiobook
$0.00 Free with Audible trial
Blood Price: Blood, Book 1
Tanya Huff
478
Audible Audiobook
$0.00 Free with Audible trial
The Lost Saint: A Dark Divine Novel
Bree Despain
111
Audible Audiobook
$0.00 Free with Audible trial

Product details

Listening Length	12 hours and 54 minutes
Author	Kelley Armstrong
Narrator	Aasne Vigesaa
Whispersync for Voice	Ready
Audible.com Release Date	June 14, 2022
Publisher	Penguin Audio
Program Type	Audiobook
Version	Unabridged
Language	English
ASIN	B09XBYRSQM
Best Sellers Rank	#19,844 in Audible Books & Originals (See Top 100 in Audible Books & Originals) #487 in Paranormal Romance (Audible Books & Originals) #7,983 in Werewolf & Shifter Romance

Customer reviews

4.4 out of 5

1,876 global ratings

5 star		67%
4 star		17%
3 star		10%
2 star		4%
1 star		2%

How customer reviews and ratings work

Top reviews from the United States

There was a problem filtering reviews right now. Please try again later.

Vannessa howard

I 💗

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on November 28, 2022

Verified Purchase

The Women of the Otherworld Series by Kelley Armstrong has long been one of my favorite urban fantasy series. Bitten is a wonderful well written and unusual novel with a unique spin on the werewolf / shapeshifter tale; it is a romance/action/adventure/fantasy. This book focuses on the Pack Werewolves and is from the point of view of the only female werewolf. Each story can stand alone, but Kelley Armstrong weaves her related characters beautifully throughout each story. This is the first book in the series. This series covers a number of adult themes. I have purchased this book in paperback, Kindle and Audible forms .

Helpful

Jane

4 ½ stars. Really well done werewolf urban fantasy romance.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on November 15, 2013

Verified Purchase

It’s not a copy of others out there. There are many scenes that surprised me - things that hadn’t been done that way before. I like the author’s thinking. For example, scenes of werewolves wrestling, playing “IT,” catching and eating an animal, things after eating the animal. There was one scene (not the major climax mentioned below) where I thought “Uh oh, is this going to be one of those stupid things to put the heroine in danger?” But it wasn’t. It was smart. I wasn’t expecting that. I was pleased. This is good storytelling. Good character and plot development. And I liked the major source of conflict between the couple, and how that worked and developed.

I almost did not read this because it’s first person, but now I’m glad I read it.

One negative: Heroine did something stupid in the major climax.

THINGS OTHER REVIEWERS DID NOT LIKE BUT I WAS OK WITH:
Some readers felt Elena was cheating on her boyfriend. I didn’t see it as cheating. I saw it as she’s single, no commitments, she is dating two guys because she can’t decide whom she wants. I know, this was not exactly dating. But it was similar because she wasn’t married or engaged. She was trying to find herself - figure out what she wanted and whom she wanted.

Some readers did not like the first sex scene being similar to rape. I didn’t see it that way. Twice the guy asked her to say stop if she wanted. She didn’t say stop. The result was aggressive alpha dominating in sex. It was good. This was better than some of those BDSM scenes with males dominating. I liked it. They were hot for each other.

Some readers did not like Elena’s personality. I don’t always want a well balanced perfect heroine. I liked that she was angry about things and refused to forgive. I can identify with that. It was good conflict. She also had a tendency toward violence. That made her more interesting.

DATA:
Narrative mode: 1st person Elena. Story length: 518 pages. Swearing language: moderate to strong including religious swear words, but rarely used. Sexual language: mild. Number of sex scenes: 5. Setting: current day Toronto, Canada, and New York State. Copyright: 2001. Genre: paranormal romance, urban fantasy romance.

19 people found this helpful

Helpful

Michael Lynn McGuire

Book number one of a thirteen book urban fantasy series plus many short stories

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 26, 2022

Verified Purchase

Book number one of a thirteen book urban fantasy series plus many short stories. I reread the well printed and well bound MMPB published by Plume in 2004 that I bought used from Amazon. I have read all the other books in the series, I might reread a couple of them also. If the author creates any new books in the series, I plan to purchase and read them.

Elena Michaels is the only living female werewolf on the planet. She was not born a werewolf but was bitten by werewolf. And she lives in Toronto, away from the pack in the USA, as a newspaper columnist. She is tired of the werewolf games and tracking down and executing all of the werewolf mutts. But, the mutts have joined together and are wanting to get rid of the pack.

The book was turned into a two season tv series on the syfy channel.

The author has a website at:

Helpful

More werewolves for me please; great intro book that stands on its own

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on June 17, 2009

Verified Purchase

Plot Summary: Elena Michaels is desperately trying to live a normal life in Toronto, working as a journalist, and living with her bland milk-toast boyfriend -- except when she slips out in the dead of night to change into a werewolf. A call from her former alpha forces Elena to travel back to the pack's home base, and face her ex-lover, Clay. Ten years ago they were engaged to be married when Clay bit Elena and she turned into a werewolf and never really forgave him. She ran away from the pack over a year ago to forget her old life, but they need her help hunting down a rogue "mutt" who is threatening their secret existence.

Although this is the first book in a series, it makes quite a tidy package on its own and it can be read as a stand-alone novel. There are no cliff hangers that leave the reader dangling, and I don't have to read book two to see if Elena and Clay will stick together. It's kind of a treat, since I was expecting the author to drag things out across several books. I got my `happily-ever-after' and there are more books to read.

It's hard not to compare all werewolf stories against the Mercy Thompson series by Patricia Briggs, so I'll just say that "Bitten" is almost as well-written, but with much more emphasis placed on the romance. I have to say I like the combo just fine. Armstrong must have spent hours thinking about life from a wolf's perspective, because she has them moving, sniffing, eating, and hunting just like wild animals. This book reeks with authenticity, and I was perfectly submerged into this paranormal world.

I liked Elena's character, but brace yourself for many pages of Elena lying to herself. She turns her back on her lover, her wolf pack, and her own personality in order to cram herself into this box that looks, acts, and thinks like a normal human. It was Clay who added the sizzle to this story, and he comes across as a perfectly yummy rascal. Yeah, he was hot, and his whole reckless, ruthless, bad-boy persona worked for me. The only implausible part of the story is how Elena resists this guy for so long. Granted, Clay bit Elena on purpose to make her his mate for life, but I kept wondering, can't she give the poor guy a break? Perhaps I'm too eager to forgive charming men who'd give their life for love, but I am a romance fan after all.

2 people found this helpful

Helpful

Top reviews from other countries

Flora

A Main Character That Frustrated Me But Good Plot

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on August 14, 2019

Verified Purchase

I thought that this book was OK. It would have earned more stars if I hadn't hated the heroine so much. I only enjoy stories where the main female character is intelligent, resilient, resourceful and displays plenty of gumption; Elena fell way short in my view. She was too much like an adolescent in her world view, though process and actions. She ran away instead of facing her fears as she had done (apparently) when she'd been a child, she blamed one person for all of the "bad things" in her life instead of taking personal responsibility like an adult, she claimed to love her boyfriend but continually showed in her thoughts and actions that she clearly didn't and

Yes she realised some of her gung-ho mistakes as she made them and admitted her self-delusion but it was right at the end, the final few pages, which was too little too late to change my opinion of her.

I liked the other characters, I thought the differences between Pack and Mutts was a little "good or evil" clichéd but like that a couple of the Mutt characters were more complex. I really liked Clay; my kind of Alpha main character. I may read the next book in this series as I thought the paranormal world Ms Armstrong has created is interesting but I won't be rushing out to buy it yet.

2 people found this helpful

KitchenWitchNik

Still A Great Read

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on July 9, 2022

Verified Purchase

I've not read this book for years and, to be honest, only picked it up to refresh my memory after watching (the travesty that was) Bitten, the tv series. It's so good (the book, NOT the show). You would never, in my opinion, guess it was a first novel! I loved all the characters, even the not so nice ones - which is always a good sign - and it's so great to have a kick a**e female lead. The foundations have been solidly laid for other books in this series and I'm going to re-read them all. If you're looking to try something new in this genre, if you want a bit of romance, some old fashioned 'good vs evil' fighting, a little werewolf action and a bloody good tale then I highly recommended you read this!

Anz

Brilliant

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on August 11, 2021

Verified Purchase

This is the best werewolf book I have read in a long time.

The characters are well fleshed out and likeable, I want to know more about the pack and their background. The story is well thought out and moves along nicely though the resolution came a bit quick. The central character Elena is a good heroine, flawed but not unlikeable so the first person narrative works well but it means we miss out on certain pack members who get forgotten in the whirlwind of the story.

I can't give this book full marks because Elena and Clay's relationship isn't very clear cut and I have some issues with the idea of sexual consent in some scenes which should be clearer.

Anniemac

A quality and intelligent werewolf story from a thinking women's urban fantasy writer

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on November 16, 2020

Verified Purchase

This was my first Kelley Armstrong book. I bought it after seeing the TV show. I think this is a terrific book and have since gone onto reading the entire Otherworld Series, including all novellas. Kelley Armstrong is one of my favourite urban fantasy writers. In my opinion the writing is tight (always!) the characters nuanced and well-developed. Elena is someone I really do feel like I “know” over the series, there is a lot of layers to her, and as werewolf stories go, I find this one intelligent and gripping. From the first page, I was into it and found it quite unlike other books I have read, writing is intelligent and the action fast-paced. Kelley Armstrong tends to balance the romance and sex (which I think she deals with well – no-nonsense and just a bit gritty – she writes for adults and I don’t think it’s over the top) with non-stop action and drama. Characters are flawed and complicated, always. She is, in my opinion, as masterful story teller and writes brilliant and feisty female characters who are never shallow. This is the book that got me into this writer and this series – I have since read the brilliant Cainsville series and also most of the Rockton series – which is not fantasy but I have enjoyed nonetheless. Worth giving it a whirl. WAYYY better than the TV show although I do think the actor for Elena was well-cast. Compared to most urban fantasy novels out there, there is just no competition on quality - Kelley leaves them in the dust!

Laura

Great Introduction to a World

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on October 31, 2022

Verified Purchase

Read this years ago, lost my paperback so got a E version and it’s as great as I remember. Elena is a relatable modern woman, confused about her place in the world as she’s pulled between her Pack and her desire for a normal life. Clay is morally grey enough to be interesting and difficult enough to add to Elena’s struggle, while still being engaging. Characters like Jeremy, Karl and Nick are engaging and make you want to hear their stories in future books. All in all, a book I’ve loved for many years and continue to love.

See all reviews

Bitten: The Otherworld Series, Book 1 Audible Audiobook – Unabridged

Read & Listen

Enjoy a free trial on us $0.00

Buy with 1-Click $14.83

People who viewed this also viewed

People who bought this also bought

Related to this topic

Product details

Customer reviews

Top reviews from the United States

There was a problem filtering reviews right now. Please try again later.

Top reviews from other countries

Enjoy a free trial on us

$0.00

Buy with 1-Click

$14.83