Annette Curtis Klause's Blood and Chocolate, certainly falls into the current Hot Zone. Vivian, an attractive seventeen year old werewolf, struggles to fit into a world that does not even acknowledge that she exists. Though she lives with her extended familiar pack, Vivian is not sure that she truly wants the future that she is being offered. In rebellion she begins to date a human boy, and she suddenly finds herself falling in love. As Vivian desperately considers revealing her true self to her beloved, Klause thoughtfully challenges her reader's to contemplate the divide between instinct and intellect. Friendship, family, sex, relationships, love, desire, death, and violence weave together this hot and fast read, leaving the reading thinking about all about what it really means to grow up and to fall in love.
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