Call that 4.5 stars. I try to be stingy with the 5 star ratings, but this one comes damn close. I'd almost gotten sick of paranormal romance (blame Anita's ardeur on that one), but this renewed my interest. Following is more of a review of the series than just this book.

This entire series is engaging, and the author does such a great job making each narrator's writing different. For example, I don't really enjoy reading Paige's books all that much, because I don't like her narrative style at all. Still, the peripheral characters in that book eventually do or may have their own book, so I find it worth it to read Paige's. Have you gotten online to see the short online-only stories included in the series?

One complaint I have, not with Bitten or Stolen, but with the others is that many characters who have been fleshed out in previous books all of a sudden become flat in future ones. Clay and Elena, who we've become practically intimate with by the end of Stolen, turn stereotypical and annoying when viewed through the lens of the books narrated by other characters. It's like she just threw them in there in case you only continued reading other books to catch up on their lives, but she didn't really care to expound. Of course, I'm a serial series reader, so perhaps this series is more for the reader who doesn't typically pick up series books.(?)