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Title details for Blood and Chocolate by Annette Curtis Klause - Available

Blood and Chocolate

by Annette Curtis Klause
Alyssa Bresnahan
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Vivian Gandillon relishes the change, the sweet, fierce ache that carries her from girl to wolf. At sixteen, she is beautiful and strong, and all the young wolves are on her tail. But Vivian still grieves for her dead father; her pack remains leaderless and in disarray, and she feels lost in the suburbs of Maryland. She longs for a normal life. But what is normal for a werewolf?

Then Vivian falls in love with a human, a meat-boy. Aiden is kind and gentle, a welcome relief from the squabbling pack. He's fascinated by magic, and Vivian longs to reveal herself to him. Surely he would understand her and delight in the wonder of her dual nature, not fear her as an ordinary human would.

Vivian's divided loyalties are strained further when a brutal murder threatens to expose the pack. Moving between two worlds, she does not seem to belong in either. What is she really—human or beast? Which tastes sweeter—blood or chocolate?

"Klause's imagery is magnetic and her language fierce, rich, and beautiful ... [a] powerful, unforgettable novel."—Booklist, starred

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  • Release date

    December 15, 1997

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9781449869977
      • File size: 219034 KB
      • Duration: 07:36:19

  • Languages

    • English

  • Levels

    • Lexile® Measure: 720
    • Text Difficulty: 3

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      From the smoke and panic-filled opening scene in which Vivian and her werewolf pack are driven out of their home, listeners will be seduced by this tale and by Bresnahan's outstanding narration. Enthralling is not too strong a word to describe Klause's story of a beautiful teenaged werewolf who finds herself irresistibly drawn to a human boy. Bresnahan reads the deliciously sensual story with relish, inhabiting even the smallest roles. Klause's language is full of words with double meanings suggestive of the werewolves' dual nature. Bresnahan conveys the quick, sharp yelps of the young males and the low-throated snarls of females vying for dominance in a manner that expresses their wolf selves while still preserving their human qualities. Her naturalness allows these supernatural creatures to feel credible. Adolescent listeners will devour this, regretting that they are only human. D.M.L. Winner of AUDIOFILE Earphones Award (c)AudioFile, Portland, Maine
    • Publisher's Weekly

      September 6, 1999
      When a 16-year-old werewolf falls in love with a human, she begins to live uncomfortably between two worlds. Klause propels her bloodthirsty tale with "darkly sexy prose and suspenseful storytelling," said PW. Ages 14-up.

    • Publisher's Weekly

      August 13, 2007
      Klause, Annette Curtis. Blood and Chocolate. Random Children's Bks. 1997; reprint. Delacorte Bks for Young Readers. 264p. pap. ~Vivian is a hot-blooded, teenaged werewolf, torn between the sweetness of her "meat boy" Aiden and the heat of Gabriel, the new leader of their pack of loups garoux. Why It Is Great: Ten years before Stephenie Meyer's Twilight, Klause made readers swoon with her tales of teen vampires and werewolves in love. Her first novel, The Silver Kiss (1992), used vampires as a metaphor for death and grief. Lovely stuff. Why It Is for Us: Blood and Chocolate is, on one level, an unironic feminist manifesto. With her sexual self-confidence and sensual description of werewolf physicality, Vivian is the anti-Bella some Twilight fans are looking for..

    • Publisher's Weekly

      July 31, 1997
      Sixteen-year-old Vivian isn't fiction's most likable heroine, and not only because she's a werewolf. She's preoccupied with admiring her own "full breasts, small waist tawny hair." She's viciously competitive with other girls, gloating, "Look at me.... I've got him. You don't. Too bad." Her pack, temporary leaderless and dislocated after the death of her father, is living in some low-rent Maryland suburbs. Expected to mate with one of the rowdy, blood-hungry werewolves her own age, Vivian rejects them as well as 24-year-old Gabriel, who flirts with her aggressively as he prepares to assume leadership of the pack. Instead, she nourishes a crush on a "meat boy" (human) from school, a retro-hippie poet-type who professes a yen for the supernatural. With the darkly sexy prose and suspenseful storytelling that gave such luster to The Silver Kiss, Klause lures readers into the politics of the pack, their forbidden desire for human flesh and the coming of age of their future queen. Though some readers may be alienated by Vivian's self-absorption, and others shocked by her eventual union with Gabriel, most will find this sometimes bloody tale as addictive as chocolate. Ages 14-up.

Formats

  • OverDrive Listen audiobook

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Languages

  • English

Levels

  • Lexile® Measure:720
  • Text Difficulty:3

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