Banned Book Week Review : Blood and Chocolate

  

I was surprised to see this book on the banned book list. The reasons cited were

 "mature content" and "sexuality"

For the audience this book is intended (YA) I think Annette Curtis Klause has created a beautiful story.

"Vivian Gandillion relishes the , change the sweet, fierce ache that carries her from girl to wolf"

The change is the one joy in Vivian's complicated life. Her Alpha father is recently deceased, and the pack dynamics are in flux. What proud wolf will show dominance and claim Vivian's mother? Or will her mothers grief force her to step down and cede her status to Vivian? So the change and the sweet young human boy Aiden are the only things that make her feel safe and whole. Even that changes. Vivian  starts to wake up in the middle of the night naked in the woods, the remains of dead humans scattered around her and her memory fuzzy. She also has inadvertently asserted her dominance among the female wolves and now the uncontested Alpha Gabriel is watching her and waiting.  This was one of the first Ya books I read. It's beautiful , stunning, lyrical and joyful. It will teach young men and women and even adults the Joy of accepting yourself for all you are.

P.S DON'T WATCH THE MOVIE!!!! IT'S A HORRIBLE DISSERVICE TO THIS AWESOME BOOK!

:)