Blood And Chocolate by Annette Curtis Klause

While scanning through the shelves in the bookstore of the nearby mall, I came across the book, Blood And Chocolate, the movie coming into mind. Upon hearing so much about this werewolf story, I decided to see for myself of what all the commotion for it was about.

Blood And Chocolate is an enlighting tale for those who enjoy fantasy and the unrealistic sense of the so-called 'creatures of the night'.
The usual cliched story of a pack of werewolves struggling to live in a peaceful undisturbed city is warped into a some-what twisted tale of lust, love and the brutalities/consequences of murder.

In this story, the main character named Vivan Gandillon desperately tries to keep her persona down low in her town and in her school. Though shockingly beautiful, the other more popular girls scorn at her and push her out of their circle of friends, while any other young male wolf in her pack would die to be at her feet.

Continuing to mourn over her passed father, her mildly-broken pack struggles to find a new leader and through all this, she feels lost and half-empty.

One day while reading through the school's paper, she finds next to her praised artwork, a poem written by a boy that manages to capture her attention, the topic being none other than one thing she knew very well; werewolves.

Wondering how any human could possibly know so much, she tries to find this boy and confronts him. Finding out as much as she could about him, Vivian soon feels a connected towards the one named Aiden and wishes to reveal her true self to him, something constantly telling her that he would understand.

As she continues to try and fit into her town, another problem is soon cooking itself up in the group she called her family, threatening to expose them all and create more blocks between her and a normal life.

As delicious as the plot is and with all that detail thrown into it, this story still seems a little on the predictable side. I must admit though, the twists and turns that are written in each chapter captivates the reader in a way that makes them want to read more with some obscenities as an added bonus.

All in all, I would sum this book up into one word; appetizing.