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Blood and Chocolate (Laurel-Leaf Books) by Annette Curtis Klause
Reading level: Young Adult
Characterizing the adolescent experience as monstrous is not exactly a new idea. M.T. Anderson's woefully confused teen vampire in Thirsty and Jean Thesman's reluctant young witch in The Other Ones serve as excellent examples of this metaphor set to fiction. But no one really captures how our hormones make us howl as well as Annette Curtis Klause.
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Blood and Chocolate chronicles the longings and passions of one Vivian Gandillon, teenage werewolf. Her pack family, recently burned out of their West Virginia home by suspicious neighbors, has resettled in a sleepy Maryland suburb. At her new school, Viv quickly falls for sensitive heartthrob Aiden, a human--or "meat-boy," as her pack calls him. Soon she is trying to tame her undomesticated desires to match his more civilized sensibilities.
"He was gentle. She hadn't expected that. Kisses to her were a tight clutch, teeth, and tongue... His eyes were shy beneath his dark lashes, and his lips curved with delight and desire--desire he wouldn't force on her... he was different." But Vivian's animal ardor cannot be stilled, and she must decide if she should keep Aiden in the dark about her true nature or invite him to take a walk on her wild side.
Klause poetically describes the violence and sensuality of the pack lifestyle, creating a hot-blooded heroine who puts the most outrageous riot grrrls to shame. Blood and Chocolate is a masterpiece of adolescent angst wrapped in wolf's clothing, and its lovely, sensuous taste is sure to be sweet on the teenage tongue. (Ages 13 and older)
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our class was on the topic of challenged/baned books.
I chose this book and thought okay I could so see why
it was challenged because its about wearwolf's.
Untill I started to read the book I was so wraped up in it i
couldn't put it down. How she protects the pack by
deciding to take her life, from someone really framing
her. It was wild it had me gripping till the end. I think
that i would recommend this book to anyone from
12 yrs. and up. It's the best book I have read in a long
time. I remember when reading the book Rafe put a
move on Vivian and she grabed his croch! That had
me balling because of how i realized how she felt toward
him, for a minute I acctually thought she would cheat on
Aden but she grabed Rafe when he put the moves on
her and showed him she don't like him.....also I never
would have expected how Aden shot her in the end and
she ended up with Gabrial. That was shocking... but I
am glade that's how it ended.