Kelley Armstrong's books are becoming more and more difficult for me to rate and review. On one hand, her characterization and world building are some of the best I've read. But on the other hand, she apparently wants to be a mystery writer, and her plots have become formulaic. Le sigh. Here is what kicks ass about this book: The Otherworld is amazing. Armstrong's strength as an urban fantasy writer definitely lies her her ability to create a believable, well defined, and engrossing world withou...

3.5 ☆Armstrong alternates the main characters in her Otherworld series. I opted to skip ahead to Broken #6 because I wanted to continue Elena's story from Stolen #2. Broken could be read as a standalone but I believe that it would be more appealing to those already familiar with Elena and Clay's idiosyncrasies. History is being forged as werewolves Elena and Clay are expectant parents after debating for three years whether to try for kids. Jeremy sighed. I looked at him. "And you thoug

Some spoilers ahead. This was boring, sorry. I developed no interest in Elena or Clay. Clay was one-dimensional. Elena was whiney. All other characters stayed flat. The pregnancy lacked interest. Usually supernatural beings with a pregnancy have some interesting character development going on. Not here.These are some of the most boring werewolves ever. Not impressed with the world building in general.The sex scenes were not sexy. They just seemed like a required plot point to tick off. The porta...

So we are back to Elena and the werewolves in Broken, not my favourite character I have to admit, (I much prefer Paige) maybe that makes me more a witchy person. Nevertheless, I still enjoyed this book, just not as much as the others. This series is becoming almost like a supernatural detective series, and it seems now we are adding a bit of history into them, the previous including the story of Lizzie Borden. This one combines the story of Jack the Ripper, and I have to say I was really intrigu...

A solid 3.5 stars, automatically rounded up, for this adventure with the Pack--a very pregnant Elena (narrating), Clay, and Jeremy go to Toronto on a simple mission that gets very complicated and decidedly strange. They wind up bringing in the other Pack members and candidate and, most importantly as it turns out, Jaime Vegas the necromancer whom we met in book #4 Industrial Magic. It was certainly a joy to be back with these characters; I read most of the Otherworld series a few years ago, skip...

We are back to the pack!First thing we learn? Elena and Clay are PREGNANT. That's a whole new thing. Since there has not been a known female werewolf besides Elena, there has never been a child with two people who have the blood of the wolves. Now there are. Elena doesn't know if she is able to actually carry a child to term, but they are going to find out because she is big and pregnant.And Clay and Jeremy are crazy careful about everything. Need help carrying a chair to the patio? Don't worry

Broken is the sixth book in Kelley Armstrong’s Women of the Otherworld series, and it is yet another example of why Kelley Armstrong managed to work her way onto my favourite author list in no time at all. As with all her books I have read, this one kept me gripped throughout – I loved the characters, I enjoyed the storyline, and I cannot wait for more.In Bitten, the first book in the Women of the Otherworld series, we were introduced to Elena. I quickly fell in love with the werewolves, having

OMG! I just can't believe how freaking amazing this book was. I loved every page of it! It just kept getting better and better. Definitely the best book in the series so far. Much better than the rest, actually. I was expecting an amazing read but never one such as this one, with drama, adventure, suspense, and so much more. The best Urban fantasy book I have read in a while.I have been hooked with this series since book 1 and have not been able to stop reading it since then; one book right afte...

Broken4 StarsWhen Elena Michaels is asked to pay back a favor, little does she know that she is about to unleash one of the most vile murderers of all time onto an unsuspecting world. Tasked with stealing Jack the Ripper's "From Hell" letter, Elena accidentally triggers a dimensional portal that enables zombies, plagues and even the notorious killer to appear in modern day Toronto. Fast paced and action packed with strong world building and solid character development. Unfortunately, the Ripper

Reading Broken and Men of the Otherworld simultaneously allowed me to realize what I had long been suspecting, I read Armstrong for the men of her Otherworld, not the women. Strike that, I read Armstrong for the Werewolf men of her Otherworld, not the women.I’ll admit that I shamelessly passed over Dime Store Magic,Industrial Magic and Haunted to get right down to business with Broken. I appreciated, even enjoyed inclusions of other supernatural races in Stolen, but it was Armstrong’s werewolf l...

It's been a while since I've read the Otherworld series, and I'm finding myself a bit at odds. I love (love, LOVE) the characters and their relationships/interactions. About 50% of the time I also love the plot. The other 50% of the time . . . not so much. Saying that I find (some of) them to be over-told or tired seems too strong, but it's also kind of the truth. I called Stolen the best retelling of The Most Dangerous Game that I'd come across. And that's true. But did I like The Most Dangerou...

*** 3.75 ***We are back to Elena as the narrator and after three years of wandering if they should even consider having children, ever, Clay and Elena are heavily pregnant and having no idea how to cope with it. While trying to deal with the anxiety, they decide to mingle with friends so they have less time to think about it. This is how eventually they end up back in Toronto dealing with an interdimentional portal back to Jack the Ripper time London, which is spewing killer zombie rats, infecti...

3 stars for the disconnected, slightly mundane beginning of the novel; 5 stars for the amazing Armstrong-style ending. I won't lie; as much as I fangirl over Kelley Armstrong, Elena, Clay, and the whole werewolf world... I was initially disappointed over Broken. I skipped from Stolen to Broken (shamefully, I wish I'd had enough patience to read the three in-betweens first) and just felt like Armstrong had lost her touch to the werewolf world. Suddenly, Elena's POV wasn't about the werewolves, it...

[3.5/5 stars] Mini Review: Broken was a decent bounce-back from Haunted, with the added benefit of Elena once again as the POV. I’d heard this was another Elena book before diving in, and I admit to setting some expectations that it would also be another “werewolf” book with all the same intense feels as the first two. Er… kind of not the case. If anything, I’d call this a “zombie” book – with a hybrid of Elena’s great POV and the plot structure of the Paige books. Not a bad combination, because...

As much as I hate to say it, but "Broken" is the weakest "Women of the Otherworld" installment so far. My dislike has nothing to do with the main characters (I remember not really liking "Dime Store Magic" strictly because I didn't really care for Paige or Lucas), but has a lot to do with the fact that "Broken" has a wish-fulfillment/filler quality about it. Allow me to elaborate.The focus of this novel is... Elena's pregnancy. That's right, not a zombie outbreak accidentally caused by Elena whe...

So I can't say I wasn't warned... realistically speaking I was warned once I was already three quarters of the way through it, but I was warned none-the-less!Broken revolves around Elena and Clay as they go through their pregnancy while fighting evil and solving mystery and generally proving, yet again, that they're in love.I love this couple. Absolutely love them to pieces. Bitten remains one of my favourite urban fantasy books to this day.My problem was that the mystery in this book was painfu...

After re-read in 2019, changing rating to 3 stars “We sacrificed a mosquito. I bet that's what did it. It was probably a virgin too.” I was happy to finally return to Elena's point of view after being away from her voice for a few books. This turned out to be the weakest of the first three starring Elena's POV, but it's still worth checking out.We get plenty of Elena, Clay, Jeremy, Jaime, and the setting of Toronto with an unusual historical mystery involving magic. The Jack-The-Ripper lore was

Oh my gosh, my heart is so so full right now. I loved this book. It's about Elena and Clay and Ohhh I want to yell it but I don’t want to give away the story. I just love this couple could it be because I read the first book 3 times? Who knows, all I know is I am always rooting for them and when Jeremy is in the story I want him to get a HEA he seems like he has been alone too long. This was an interesting story with zombies from another time. We get to meet more vampires too. Oh and Jamie comes...

I really enjoyed this next installment of the Otherworld series! Elena is now pregnant and it cracked me up to see Clay and Jeremy mother-hening her around. Of course given that she is the only female werewolf and her pregnancy is unprecedented (as far as the wolves know). There is just something about the dynamics of the pack that I love - they are truly a family and their playfulness is fun to read about. It isn't all about oooh I'm a scary werewolf. Plus I loved seeing Elena still be a badass...