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Once Bitten

A Novel of Haven

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Once Bitten

By: Kalayna Price
Narrated by: Piper Goodeve
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Kita Nekai, on the run and the smallest of her shifter clan-a calico cat among lions and tigers-is being hunted. She was expected to accept her role as her father's successor whether or not her cat was up to the task of leading the clan. She disagreed. Now she's less than a step ahead of the hunters, bone-tired, cold, and living hand-to-mouth in the city of Haven. And that's the high point of her day. She's also drugged, "accidentally" turned into a vampire, and sentenced to death for recklessly creating a rogue shifter who tortures its human prey. She's got 72 hours to find the rogue, evade a city full of hunters, prove she's not responsible for the rogue, and keep the vampire council from killing her. All while sorting out an apprentice mage, a married ex-boyfriend shifter-hunter, and the vampire who made her.

©2009 Kalayna Price (P)2011 Audible, Inc.
Fantasy Fiction Genre Fiction Horror Literary Fiction Romance Scary Paranormal Cats Shifter

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Critic reviews

"Ill be watching for book two in this exciting new series." ( Darque Reviews )
"Urban fantasy readers who enjoy the works of Kelly Armstrong and V.K. Forrest will have a great time reading this exhilarating story." (Harriet Klausner )
"This was a perfect adventure." ( Paranormal Romance Reviews)
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I kept waiting for the 22/23-year-old heroine, who's lived rough, and solo, for 5 years to display a hint of adult capability or emotion - but for most of the book she seems stuck as a whiney, petulant, over-touchy adolescent. She tells one of the main male characters several times that she "hates him" - works usually used by 8-year-olds whose mothers won't let them go play, radiates sullen "it's-not-fair", and rejects any offers of friendship or support - I felt quite sorry for Nathaniel at times.
However, while I did get a tad fed up with Kitter, the world building is good, the other characters better drawn and less teenage (Nathaniel is 400 years old after all), and the ending is truly absorbing, running right up to, and slightly over, a deadly deadline, and with a very well described, and rather gruesome, finale. We end with Kitter maybe, just maybe, a smidgen more resigned to her lot, and with her set up as a supernatural investigator for the subsequent series.
Worth the listen, and well read with clear definition between characters - but for heavens sake buy it through Amazon for the cheaper price, you come back to your Audible account, but keep the cheaper price - and I'll be downloading the sequel.

Absorbing, but with a petulant, adolescent heroine

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Sorry I hated our hero, liked some of the other characters. Only listened to the end because I was hoping kitty would prove or die. The book has left me down and irritable, not good.
The story is pretty good, I just don't the rout to get there.

Not fun

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