Because I “met” Elena first, I always particularly want to spend booktime with her character above all others (and, so far, she narrates four of the books in the series), but Haunted is told in Eve’s voice.Įve really wasn’t my favourite character - not because of the rumours that have circulated about her, how baaaaaaaaaad she is (muahhahhah), but because I never really felt that I understood her motivations as a character - so imagine my surprise to find that this, the fifth novel in the series, is a contender for my favourite to date. It adds to the credibility, I think, (perhaps even more important when establishing otherworldly characters) and gives the reader a sense of community for the characters, all the while keeping the narrative style fresh from book-to book.

Apparently the author has been told several times that her series would sell better if she stuck with a single narrator, but she likes the challenge of different voices. That’s one of the things I especially like about this series, the way characters drift in and out.

She, like other characters, drifts from the centre of the storytelling in one novel to just brushing another charcter’s story in later books. Interesting premise (it’s what hooked me on the first novel) and it definitely adds a complexity to the story that I appreciate.Įlena isn’t always the focus of the novels, however.

Kelley Armstrong’s Otherworld series has taken hold in unexpected and dramatic ways and I am completely and entirely hooked.īitten is told in the voice of Elena Michaels, the only female werewolf, one strong woman in a world traditionally dominated in every way by men, er, that is male werewolves. It begins with Bitten, first published in hardcover in 2001, and is projected to have thirteen books in total, the eleventh having recently been released, Tales of the Otherworld.

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