Where the Wild Things Bite

REVIEW PROVIDED BY: KellyNUMBER OF HEARTS: 4 1/2As always I am blown away by Ms. Harper’s ability to write a story that makes me fall in love with her writing, her characters and the world she has created all over again.Where The Wild Things Bite we get to meet up Finn Palmeroy again. If you may have recalled in The Single Undead Moms Club I wanted badly to stab Finn with a fork. I disliked him greatly. But in WTWTB Finn redeems himself..... Kinda. I mean I guess he does. Or does he? Anna is great. I love her knowledge of so many random facts about surviving in the wilderness. She is one tough cookie and she puts up with Finn. I hope that we will see more of Anna & Finn in future stories. I can’t wait to see what/who is next in Half-Moon Hollow.As always I let the amazingly talented Amanda Ronconi read this story to me. I absolutely love Amanda ability to bringing Molly’s characters to life for me. And it is always fun when you are in the car and you are laughing so hard that the people next to you look at you like your are crazy. I look forward to our next audio meeting Ms. Ronconi!!!Disclaimer:I received a complimentary copy of this book from Edelweiss in exchange for an honest review. I also purchased an audio copy of this book from Audible.com. This review is my own opinion and not a paid review.

For anyone else, Where the Wild Things Bite would be a four star book, but Molly Harper is one of my favorite authors, and she just didn't quite pull this one off with her usual skill. As much as it pains my heart, and without spoilers, here's what went wrong.We spend a whole lot of time in the h's head, so much so that the H doesn't really get fleshed out and their attraction doesn't quite seem possible.A pretty serious plot point involving prescription drugs is brought up twice then glossed over. Let's say the person involved would have been sick, possibly incapacitated, but Ms. Harper just tossed that aside. Probably best not to bring it up.Timeline issues. For instance, the h eating something, then not having eaten, then saying she was full.Believability issues. I'm willing to read about almost anything as long as you make it believable. I did not believe the h could have survived much of what she goes through, which makes me go, "Huh?" which takes me out of the story.Then there is a big plot point, a very serious one, and it weirdly doesn't get addressed in any realistic way. It's just shrugged off as, "oh well, yeah that was pretty bad, har har." Wth?While I enjoyed Wild Things, it didn't pull well together to find that "extremely wacky yet still possible" tone of her other books. Even so, I quite liked these characters and hope to see them in a future story.Conclusion? A bit of a miss for Ms. Harper who can do, and usually does, much better. But Molly Harper books are like pizza: even when they're not great they're still pretty darn good.

Anna is sort of a hermit that lives for her job surrounded by old books, until a very valuable one comes to her and Anna believes it is her duty to give it back by hand to its rightful owner and not by courier. So even though she is an agoraphobe, germophobe and a lot more adjectives that end in "phobe", she bravely gets on a plane to Half-Moon Hollow to deliver that precious book to Jane Jameson. And then her plane crashes.I could not put this book down, but I am afraid I was expecting more - probably because whole idea of having a germophobe lost in the woods promised a lot of laugh out moments, but failed short. They basically walked and slept, where were the savage animals, the lost tribes, eating disgusting things, hazardous survival ideas, meeting amazons,...? All those absolutely ridiculous but perfectly plausible scenes to this sort of book? I enjoyed the story, I liked how the main character is so like Jane but also very different, how she grows and fights but I was left wanting more.

I adore Molly Harper and Half Moon Hollow!! I did miss a few of the series regulars in this book, but Finn and Anna made the story great! I did feel that there were a few issues with continuity, especially in the last quarter of the book, but it was easy enough to figure out what was going on.As I've come to expect from Ms Harper, this book was filled with action and humor. I'd recommend this book to any fan of PNR books. I'd normally warn that you need to read the whole series, though I always recommend that, but I feel you could read this installment of the series without feeling lost. There are small references to the earlier books, but nothing that would keep you from enjoying this one!!

Read Jane Jameson series first though.

I absolutely loved this book! cannot wait for the second one. Molly Harper has a HUGE knack for story telling and i own every one of her books. in this story, Nell (the main character) comes alive in a short story with the Jane Yellowrock series but is expanded here. She has a very small part in "Off the Grid" in the Jane Yellowrock series but this story is all hers! She lives alone in a cabin, takes care of herself and even gains a power she did not know she had. I highly recommend this story to all women and to those who want to empower their daughters. Even to men who think that women cannot be as strong as they are.

I really enjoyed the main characters in this book. It is set in the same world as Molly's other HMH books, but the characters are mostly on their own through the book, so you don't necessarily need to have read the previous books to enjoy this one. Anna is much stronger than she thinks she is at the beginning and I really enjoyed seeing how she grows, but Finn also grows up a bit. There is one completely terrifying scene in it, or at least I think so as a PhD student, but most of it is fun and Molly's usual combination of sassy, hilarious and a bit sexy. Can't say enough good things about the book or the author.

Enjoying this new series

This book caused me to rethink this series by Molly Harper (but so far I think my initial poor impressions are accurate overall having revisited several since) but I've come to the conclusion that that's because it takes place apart from the rest of the characters in this series (mostly). I just can't work up any enthusiasm for this series, and I've really tried.The book itself was fun and fast moving.

As always this series lives up to the previous ones and is in no way a disappointment.

Anna, eine von Ängsten gesteuerte Bibliographin, hat ein wertvolles altes Buch in ihrer Obhut das sie der Eigentümerin persönlich zurückbringen möchte. Sie steigt deshalb in ein winziges Flugzeug das sie in eine entlegene Kleinstadt bringen soll. Außer dem Piloten Ernie gibt es nur noch einen weiteren Passagier, ein nerviger Schönling namens Finn. Dann geschieht das Unglaubliche, der Pilot versucht, das Buch zu rauben, und als ihm dies nicht gelingt, verlässt er per Fallschirm den Flieger. Finn gibt sich als Vampir zu erkennen und rettet sich und Anna durch einen beherzten Sprung aus dem Flugzeug, Sekunden bevor dieses am Boden zerschellt. Da stehen sie nun, inmitten eines riesigen Naturschutzgebietes in Kentucky, viele hundert Meilen entfernt von jeglicher Zivilisation. Ohne Essen, Trinken und in Ballerina Schuhen muss Anna wohl oder übel dem Vampir vertrauen, den sie nicht ausstehen kann.Annas Charakter und ängstliche Wesenszüge sind sehr gut und glaubwürdig ausgearbeitet. Durch ihre überbehütete Kindheit konnte sie kaum Selbstvertrauen entwickeln, dafür umso mehr Neurosen. Im Kampf ums Überleben verändern sich langsam die Sichtweisen und Ängste von Anna, zum Teil erzwungen durch die Umstände, die Wildnis in der es keine Medikamente oder antibakterielle Feuchttücher gibt. Doch vorallem durch Finn, der ein gutes Gespür dafür besitzt, wie weit er sie herausfordern kann. Mit viel Geduld schafft er es, dass Anna sich öffnet, ihm gegenüber und auch dem Leben an sich. Anfangs kann Anna ihn nicht ausstehen, doch sie lernt schnell, dass sie aufeinander angewiesen sind, und dass sie ihn unterschätzt hat. Es entsteht eine Vertrautheit zwischen beiden die sich in gegenseitige Anziehung wandelt.Es gibt allerdings auch eine andere Seite, die des nicht unbegründeten Misstrauens, denn Finn ist nicht nur ein Vampir, also ein gefährliches Raubtier, sondern vermutlich auch im Bunde mit Annas Angreifer Ernie. Auch über Finns Hintergrund erfährt man mehr, und auch er macht eine glaubwürdige Entwicklung durch. Finn ist nicht der übliche tolle Vampirheld, er hat eigene innere Dämonen zu bekämpfen.Mit Situationskomik und ihrem gewohnten Wortwitz, aber auch mit Tiefgang schildert die Autorin zwei Schicksale, denen nichts Besseres hätte passieren können, als dieser Flugzeugabsturz. 5 Sterne für ein weiteres tolles Buch aus der liebenswerten Half Moon Hollow Reihe.

Molly Harper a deux qualités : elle est drôle et elle sait écrire, ce qui n'est pas si fréquent dans les histoires de vampires qui ont une fâcheuse tendance à abuser du beau ténébreux comme argument de vente.Même si vous n'avez pas lu la série des "Nice Girls don't ...", vous pouvez lire ce bouquin avec plaisir. Evidemment, vous aurez raté les histoires de Jane Jameson-Nightingale mais cette histoire vous donnera peut-être envie de commencer la série.Ici, nous suivons Anna, spécialiste de livres anciens et accessoirement phobique au dernier degré, qui prend son courage à deux mains et l'avion pour aller livrer à Jane un manuscrit oh combien précieux qu'elle a expertisé pour elle.L'avion ne restera pas en l'air (ce sera mon seul spoiler). Comment Anne va-t-elle survivre au milieu de nulle part avec un compagnon qui l'a sauvée mais qui pourrait bien la considérer comme son dernier snack ? Sortira-t'elle indemne de ce trekking forcé et échappera t-elle à ses poursuivants ? Si vous aimez les héroïnes pleines de surprises et peu conventionnelles, partez en ballade avec Anna.