Review: Call me a glutton for punishment...
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 09 13, 2011
This installment in the Bitten series picks up where Ben's mate, Ally, a human, has been kidnapped by his vampire fiance (I saw that one coming a mile away.). Moira has no intention of letting this morphing vampire keep Ben. She has been conspiring for hundreds of years for this marriage, and nothing is going to stand in her way. She loves Ben (or thinks she does). Her behavior is both juvenile and evil. Moira has no intention of letting her hostages go. (Yes, I said hostages. Now both of Ally's best friends have been kidnapped to insure her good behavior. Saw that one coming, too.)Ben refuses to believe that Moira has had anything to do with Ally's disappearance, after all, she's hunting for her true mate also. His friend, Gabe, suspects the truth, and sets out to find it. Moira's family is known to be power hungry and cruel, although no one on the Council has caught them doing anything illegal. Gabe's family was destroyed by them when information was manufactured against them. Now they only have about thirty percent of what they once had, and Moira's family took most of their magical relics, stating they had been stolen from them.Ben finally gets suspicious! (Took him almost all of the story to get there!) Give me a break. This man is supposed to be worried sick over his mate's kidnapping, and doesn't suspect the one person who has the most to gain? He's supposed to be hundreds of years old, and he hasn't learned that people lie to get what they want?This second 'novella' is really another couple of chapters in 'Bitten' saga , and like the first, it ended in another(!) cliffhanger. This series reads like a serial novel, and second one cannot be read as a stand alone, and make any sense. Call me a glutton for punishment, but I was hoping 'Stolen' was better. There was a little more action, but the same problems exist in this one as they do in the first. To wit: grammatical errors, misspellings, tense errors, juvenile dialogue, and repeated phrases. I had sincerely hoped I would be more pleased with 'Stolen', but I wasn't. I do not like writing critical reviews, but I think they are important when merited. In this particular case, I feel like there weren't as many critical reviews of 'Stolen', because many chose not to read it after having read 'Bitten'. I cannot, in all honesty, provide a good recommendation, but good luck to those who still want to try it.