Frostbitten

Women of the Otherworld, Book 10

By: Kelley Armstrong

Narrated by: Jen Taylor

Length: 10 hrs and 34 mins

Publisher's summary

The Alaskan wilderness is a harsh landscape in the best of conditions, but with a pack of rogue werewolves on the loose, it's downright deadly.

Elena Michaels, the Pack's chief enforcer, knows all too well the havoc "mutts" can wreak. When they hear of a series of gruesome maulings and murders outside Anchorage, she and her husband, Clay, journey to Alaska in the dead of winter in order to hunt down the dangerous werewolves.

Trapped in this savage, untamed winter realm, she and Clay learn more about their own werewolf heritage than they bargained for, tapping a little more into the wild nature of the beast within.

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A Alaskan Home Run -- Must Read

This novel more than any others has a theme and premise that you will connect with. In this book we learn about the abuse Elena endured during her childhood, how she dealt with it and how she has become a stronger better person. We also get a full understanding of her growth with Clay. I have to applaud Armstrong for delivering a clean, concise theme without coming off preachy. It was believable and uplifting. This book was by far and away her best and, for me, made the series work while.

Unlike other series, by book ten you might be questioning the resolve to continue. I highly recommend that you listen to this book. If you've liked the series so far, this one will keep you listening even after you have arrived at you destination. Jen Taylor does her usual excellent job and delivers great performance.

I am anxious to listen to the next and hope Armstrong continues to belt them out!

Really enjoyed it

The story was great as usual. The narrator was good just wish they used the one from Bitten!

Best in the Series

I almost given up on the series, but this book was as good as Bitten.

Great continuation

I love, love this universe and all its parts. This books is a wonderful continuation of Elena and Clay's story.

Better than the last narration

Thankfully Jen Taylor was a far cry better narrating this book than she was with Living with the Dead. Her pronunciation of forte and Neanderthal bugged me, maybe I’m just being picky but hearing forte pronounced like fort and Neanderthal pronounced like neanderTALL was annoying. At least she got Jamie Vegas right this time and all the characters didn’t sound like valley girls. She did an excellent Aussie accent as well as Russian, all in all it was rather enjoyable. The novel itself.... well I can’t say enough good things about Kelley Armstrong and her Otherworld. This novel had just as much surprise, mystery and intrigue that all of her other novels have along with a strong female lead just like all of her other novels have. You can’t go wrong reading any of her books in the Otherworld Series. However I wouldn’t read this one before reading the others it’s better to read them in order. Kelley Armstrong flushes out the characters more in the other books and then takes them on different adventures throughout the rest of her books and this is one of those adventures, and, just like the characters, the novels intertwine. It’s a wonderful world to lose yourself in.

Short, fast and the big huge creatures are scary!

Would you recommend this book to a friend? Why or why not?

Hum... Though it is short, it is a full story. I was dissatisfied with how quickly it ended... gee, now I am seeing I must have liked it more than I was prepared to admit here. Okay, I might recommend it to someone on sale. I like a longer listen.

What was the most interesting aspect of this story? The least interesting?

The characters are always interesting in Ms. Armstrong's books but the Shifters are new and I'm going to wait for some more development of these folks in future books - lots of potential. Least interesting? Hum. The length.

Would you listen to another book narrated by Jen Taylor?

YES. I can understand what she is saying. Being Hard of Hearing the narrator's quality of speech is really important to me.

If this book were a movie would you go see it?

No, I'd wait for the next in the series. This was a complete story, but I felt that more character development (Shifters) and more info about the countryside in Alaska would have been better.

Any additional comments?

nope

Good book but.....

I love Kelley Armstrong...but she got a little lost in this book. The reader changed the accents of the characters that had been well set from previous reads, that was very dissapointing. The writer ruined some of the characters that are previously written as heroes, making them seem week and needy? The worst part was the reader...big bad wolves in this book are not believeable because seriously she gave them mickey mouse has a sore throat voices? I dont understand how the publisher could ever let this happen, let alone the writer. Very irritating.

Subpar Narration

Please get narrators who can have a diversity with both male and female voices. It’s so difficult to enjoy an audiobook when then men all sound like women with bad colds. It’s so disappointing with so many talented narrators out there. This narrator should maybe stick with books with multiple narrators

Great story. Terrible narrator

Why the narrator insists that a werewolf should have a southern drawl is beyond me. Every guy sounds like an upperclass douche and nearly every other woman sounds like a hooker with a smoking habit.

Harlequin-adventure fantasy disorienting at times

I felt manipulated by Frostbitten. It's as if the author said to her publisher, "Hey, I've written a woman-centered action novel and added werewolves. We'll get crossover sales!

Readers who buy this novel for world-building fantasy will sorely disappointed. This novel starts out slowly with the fact that the characters claim to be werewolves barely informing the action until late in the story. We also learn little about the other interesting supernatural characters throughout the novel. The author had the bones of some great ideas here but didn't capitalize on them.

This story does work as a simple action adventure with the caveat that its written from a female perspective.

It was interesting, and somewhat disorienting, as a male reader to observe the way this female character thinks about and interacts with the world. There was a lot more emphasis on relationships than I care to think about. And seduction/sex scenes are completely different. I think this will work very well for a lot of readers. It left me bored.

Bottom line: I wouldn't buy or recommend this book to someone interested in werewolves/otherworld. If you're buying it for the "Women of the...." part of the title, it's a mildly successful adventure title.