Kelley Armstrong

The only living female werewolf, thirty-year-old Elena Michaels takes on a mission to confront Internet billionaire Tyrone Winsloe, who has been capturing Elena's fellow paranormal brethren, conducting experiments on them, and hunting them to their deaths in a live video game.

Women of the Otherworld: Book 2

Stolen

When a young witch tells Elena that a group of humans are kidnapping supernaturals, Elena ignores the warning. After all, everyone knows there’s no such thing as witches. As for the thought of other ‘supernaturals’, well, she’d just rather not dwell on the possibility. Soon, however, she’s confronted with the truth about her world, when she’s kidnapped and thrown into a cell-block with witches, sorcerers, half-demons and other werewolves. As Elena soon discovers, dealing with her fellow captives is the least of her worries. In this prison, the real monsters carry the keys.

Geoffrey Froggatt

I read this book without knowing it was the second book in the series, but that didn’t hinder my enjoyment or engagement of the story itself. This book is about Elena, a rare female werewolf on a mission for her own elite pack. She is lured into the net of ruthless Internet billionaire Tyrone Winsloe, who has funded a bogus scientific investigation of the "other races" and their supernatural powers. Kidnapped and studied in his underground lab deep in the Maine woods, these paranormals - witches, vampires, shamans, werewolves - are then released and hunted to the death in a real-world video game. But when Winsloe captures Elena, he finally meets his match. This book had very creative world-building and the characters were all very interesting. I loved the more mature writing style and atmosphere, and the fact that this book’s intended audience was adults made me love it even more. After reading so many young-adult supernatural stories, it was refreshing reading from one with more mature themes and storytelling devices. I loved Elena’s character as well as the introduction of newer characters that would eventually go on to have their own books in this series. If you love adult supernatural stories, I highly recommend this book series, as there are thirteen books total.

Briar's Reviews

Kelley Armstrong is one of my favourite authors, and not just because she's Canadian! Her Women of the Otherworld series has always and will always knock my socks off!

This novel follows Elena yet again, but as the title suggests - this time she is "Stolen". This book amps up the action, making it equal (if not better) to the original "Bitten" novel. I found this book so strong as a sequel, that it was really hard not picking up the third book immediately after this one! Elena and her pack, as well as the rest of the ladies that eventually lead this series, are a force to be reckoned with! Kelley knows how to write her characters strong and passionate!

This series is definitely for adults (although, there is a YA series if you're interested...), due to some of the brutality the story can get into. It's not an R rated novel, but the themes are better suited for adults (some mature YA audiences could easily read it, I know I originally read these as a teenager). 

I also really enjoy Elena and Clay together. Their relationship isn't the smoothest, and it has it's rocky moments, but they work really well together. Knowing that their relationship builds well over multiple books, I can look back and be impressed with how Kelley built them over time. The other characters and their relationships are also very strong, but these two really shine in the Elena books.

Kelley will pull you in and have you hooked almost instantly. If you haven't read anything by her, get on it! I love this author, and she always meets my expectations and surpasses them!

If there was one series I'd highly recommend, it's this series! It has drama, action, adventure, romance and comedy all packaged into a fantastic Canadian series! It's well worth the read, and worth every penny I've spent on this series (even when I accidentally bought doubles and triples of the books, because I forgot the order...whoops!). If I did have one recommendation, try not to read this series far apart from each other. I find it's a great binge read, because the story is so full of lore and excitement! 

And if you couldn't get enough of this series, there's a television show based off of the book (it's pretty close for first season, but second and third are loosely based - but it's still incredble!). 

Five out of five stars! Can I make that six out of five? No? Darn. I guess it'll stick to five!

Wren Hardwick

WrensReads Review:

So Stolen is the second book of this marvelous series. It is as well written and introduces important characters for the books to come. It also introduces other types of super-human type species.

That's right folks, there aren't just werewolves anymore.



For example, 

Half Demons: Father is a demon, Mother is a human. They get superhuman powers from their good ole' dad
Witches: Women with magic
Sorcerers: Men with magic
Shamans: Something about being able to deal with spirits

But, luckily for us, it is still narrated by our favorite female-werewolf: Elena.

This story starts out that Elena and Jeremy meet two women who claim they have evidence of werewolves existence. They play the part of people who believe, but the two ladies actually tell them about their (Elena and Jeremy's) personal life and their pack. Hits too close to home. They claim to be witches.

She doesn’t believe a word they are saying.

Then she gets attacked. She believes words they are saying.

They go to this "meeting of the otherworldly-ins" and they believe they are getting set up. They really just don't want to deal with the fact that there are other supernatural beings out there and want to go back to just focusing on themselves and their own ways. 

Elena gets attacked… again again. 



This time though, she is captured and taken to some scientific headquarters were they have other super human people and know all about her (why does everyone know about her, seriously? Was there a newsletter we missed?) and want to know everything more about her species and others alike.

Obviously that’s not okay. How would you like to be captured by a hunt-crazed, lust-driven lunatic, an unstable business woman, a science-driven mad man, a teleporting cocky half-demon with a bunch of other messed up super people? 

This is one of my favorite stories in this series. It is interesting to see how humans react when they find out about the super-natural word. In all seriousness, this would be exactly what would happen because humans would hate to know there is something out there that is better than them.

And they would want to have it for themselves. So they can be top dog again. 

I love this series and I love Armstrong’s writing. I don’t know how many more times I can say that and not be labeled as a creepy fan-stalker girl. Sorry not sorry.

Read these books. You won’t be disappointed I SWEAR.

Stolen Women of the Otherworld: Book 2

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