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Driven

por Kelley Armstrong

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Series: Otherworld (Illustrated novella, 13.6)

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Elena Michaels and her werewolf pack team up with a family of Mutts (werewolves who don't belong to any pack) to attempt to track a group of werewolf-killers. The Cains are a mutt clan, and are known for being big, brutish and not-too-bright; they embody all the worst stereotypes about werewolves. But not even the Cains deserve to be hunted down and skinned like animals. When Davis Cain comes to the Pack for help, Alpha Elena Michaels can't refuse him. But Elena is also dealing with Malcolm Danvers, onetime enforcer, full-time psycho. If Elena has to let Malcolm in, she's going to make full use of him... and the best person to catch monsters is one who knows exactly how they think.… (más)
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I’ve read all the books and I have this one on order from the publisher. I was able to get a review copy of this and for the new reader this isn’t where you want to start. This is mostly a direct sequel to the events in Forsaken since Malcolm is in it. David Cain has contacted the Pack since someone is hunting his family and killing them while in werewolf form. Elena decides that even though the mystery group is killing mutts she will take on the problem with the Pack to find out who is targeting the mutts and why. Malcolm is brought along as part of the group hunting and most of the story is his reintegration back into the pack.

Digital review copy provided by the publisher through NetGalley
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  Glennis.LeBlanc | Jan 6, 2020 |
Driven is the story of werewolf Malcolm Danvers wanting either of two things. He doesn't succeed in tricking Elena into granting him his preferred wish, so he has to settle for Plan B: rejoining the pack. Oh, horrors! The Pack has CHANGED since he was a last a member. Imagine a White Supremacist needing to work at a formerly all-white good old boys company that now has a female head and employees from all races, creeds, and genders; and you'll have a good idea of what Malcolm has to contend with. My heart bleeds. There are some very satisfying comeuppances for Malcolm, one of them when he meets his great-grandchildren, young twins Kate and Logan [the children of his biological son's foster/adopted son]. Couldn't have happened to a nicer guy.

Remember the Cain family of mutts (werewolves who don't belong to a pack)? One of their brighter members, Davis, comes to the Pack for help after making a grisly discovery. It's werewolf business and Alpha Elena Michaels is on it, along with her mate Clayton 'Clay' Danvers, and Malcolm. Can the old sociopath prove he's still got a contribution to make?

The action starts five months after the prologue. There's an unnumbered chapter between the prologue and chapter one that is from Davis' viewpoint. The rest of the book is from Elena's.

This being set in the Women of Otherworld universe, we will be treated to glimpses of other characters and their relationships -- hurrah!

Notes:

Prologue: Malcolm says he can provide a map of shallow graves to prove he can still fight.

Davis chapter: Davis was lucky to be allowed to attend high school and college -- other members of the clan are home-schooled.

Chapter 1:

a. Karl lives in Philadelphia.

b. Malcolm lives in Pittsburgh, the territory the Pack granted him. He's the omega wolf in the American Pack.

c. Jeremy Danvers' current feelings about his father are stated.

d. The American Pack has 12 adult werewolf members, four kids (the Danvers twins and Karl & Hope,s kids), and three non-werewolf members: Jaime, Vanessa, & Hope.

e. Malcolm considers Karl's son, as grandson of Lucifer and therefore a werewolf with chaos demon blood, interesting. He's very interested in meeting Kate Danvers because she's a full-blooded female werewolf who changed before she was 10.

Chapter 2:

a. Karl & Hope's son is two months old and their daughter, Nita, is a toddler.

b. Charlie Gray won't be at the Pack Meet because he's in Australia.

c. The American Pack has three Australian members.

d. Malcolm learns that Charlie's daughter, Madison, is a full Pack member even though she's not a werewolf.

Chapter 3:

a. Karl was 15 when Malcolm murdered his mother. There's a synopsis of how Karl's life is going for him now.

b. Elena tells us what kind of things are covered in a Pack Meet.

c. Maddie & Reese are now the ones who use the internet to check for potential werewolf trouble.

Chapter 4:

a. Logan likes languages. Jeremy teaches him.

b. Karl knows more languages than Jeremy. Karl is teaching the twins Japanese.

c. Kate is learning French, too. Her Spanish is pretty good and her Russian isn't bad.

Chapter 5:

a. Under Elena, the protocol is to contact the Alpha directly, not through her beta.

b. No member of the Pack gets to eat until the Alpha does.

Chapter 6:

a. There's a description of Davis Cain here. If you're British, a 'pullover' is what you call a 'jumper'. What we call a 'jumper' is what you call a 'pinafore'.

b. When it comes to Deliverance, Nick is probably referring to the 1972 movie adaptation of the novel by James Dickey. It made its 1955 Arthur Smith theme song, 'Dueling (originally 'Feuding') Banjos' famous. If you don't want to watch the film, look up the plot. (Eeeek.)

c. This is where Malcolm meets Davis and learns something he doesn't like at all.

d. We learn a new detail about the horror Davis Cain found in his uncle's woods.

Chapter 7:

a. See Brazen for that bounty hunter case Elena mentions.

b. Elena has the best nose in the American Pack.

c. Logan and Kate like video games and they like role-playing video games best.

d. Elena explains the difference between the way she handles her Pack members' mates and what was done in the Bad Old Days.

Chapter 8:

a. The Pack is paying the rent on Malcolm's apartment

b. Elena tells us about her relationship with Clay during the 15 years since they got back together. For the biting incident, see Bitten, the first book in the Women of Otherworld series.

c. Elena tells us why she and Vanessa get along so well.

Chapter 9: See the Darkest Powers trilogy (most likely The Reckoning) for how Ramon Santos' partner, Liam, died.

Chapter 10: See 'Stalked' in My Big Fat Supernatural Honeymoon or The Hunter and the Hunted for the Ford Cain incident.

Chapter 11:

a. Davis and Nick discuss how old they and some of Davis' cousins were when they first Changed.

b. Elena uses an incident from Nick's past to distract Davis from worrying about his kin.

Chapter 12:

a. In her wolf form, Elena smells like a bitch in heat. Davis handles that better than Malcolm does.

b. We get more explanations about werewolf gestures.

Chapter 13 contains some comments about how Malcolm treated Clay when he was a child and older.

Chapter 14 has both Clay and Nick telling Malcolm off.

Chapter 16:

a. Theo Cain states what he has against Clay and Malcolm -- and he's madder at Malcolm. (Theo doesn't believe that Elena is really the Alpha.)

b. Elena explains why they can't kill Malcolm now.

Chapter 17:

a. The Paige Elena phones is Paige Winterbourne, a witch and detective, who is married to Lucas Cortez of the Cortez Cabal. To learn more about Paige, see Stolen, Dime Store Magic, Industrial Magic, and, according to Ms. Armstrong's website, a novella - Counterfeit Magic.

b. Derek Cain, son of the late Zachary Cain, is better known to fans of the Darkest Powers trilogy as Derek Souza. The necromancer girlfriend talked about is Chloe Saunders. Derek is said to be 20 or 21 now.

Chapter 20: Elena and Vanessa discuss Nick wanting her (Ness) to move in with him.

Chapter 22: We find out why some of the Cains are being hunted. It's understandable.

Chapter 25: Carter gives his version of the incident that led to this hunt. *shudder*

Chapter 27: Elena and Clay tell Malcolm they know what he was trying to do.

If there is anything I wish Ms. Armstrong would do, it would be putting an asterisk at the mention of a past incident with the title of the relevant book listed at the bottom of the page. Other than that, it's a good book.

Dog lovers, there are some scenes with Atalanta, Kate Danvers' five-month-old puppy to enjoy. She also appears in two of the illustrations. ( )
  JalenV | Mar 28, 2016 |
Yes! Yes yes yes yes! Yes and more yes!

When the Otherworld Series ended, I was deeply saddened because this series had so many more books left in it. In particularly, of everyone’s stories, I wanted to know Elena’s. Not because she was my favourite of the Otherworld protagonists (that would be Paige), but because her story was the one that had the most meat left in it. Everyone else could certainly have more stories told about their lives and experiences, but it was Elena’s that screamed to be continued

We saw hints of it in some of the short stories – but those hints made me want more. I wanted to see Elena and her expanded Pack as she gathered more numbers to replace the decimation of the very first book. I wanted to see her develop her pack with new ideas and principles. A pack that moves on from the horror of before, a pack that is more open, more cosmopolitan, a pack that sees Mutts as more than vermin and a pack that is part of the greater supernatural community. A pack that thinks and cares while still being skilled and ruthless

Elena’s pack. Elena taking the foundation that Jeremy began and taking it to all new levels. That is what I wanted and this is it – what I always thought the series needed and here it is

So yes, much glee

And it’s awesome. It’s everything I wanted. The pack has grown, it has numerous female characters who have been added to the pack through love and family; not werewolves but equally powerful and dangerous and skillfull and useful. The pack is richer for their presence

And it’s richer for having Elena in the lead. Elena seeing werewolves beyond the Pack. Elena who sees the greater supernatural community and the place of the Pack within it. Elena who understands the modern world. Elena who is leading the Pack to a true golden age – and it’s really excellent to see. She is a brilliant Alpha

I love how she mixes both her new progressiveness with the continued traditions of the pack and the Alpha traditions still that keep the pack as werewolves. She’s still the Alpha, she still eats first, there are still ways and means to speak to the Alpha. Not that you can’t disagree with her – but there’s a means: she combines the two. Both an Alpha you can disagree with - but still an Alpha, an Alpha who must be respected.

This is all shown off excellently well with Malcolm. The epitome of the old pack, of what the old pack stood for, of everything that was wrong with the old pack (and, maybe, just a few shreds of what was right as well). He constantly questions and every time we see why Elena is right, why the new Pack is better, why her way is better

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  FangsfortheFantasy | Mar 2, 2016 |
I am so glad that, though the series has officially “ended,” there are still more Otherworld stories to discover!

I’ve been a fan of the Women of the Otherworld (now just called the Otherworld series) for a long time. Of all the races and characters in the series, the werewolves have always been one of my favorites.

I love seeing Elena in the role of Alpha of the pack, and I particularly love her children. I can’t wait until they start getting their own stories. I did notice that I’ve either missed a few stories or just haven’t read them in a while; I was unfamiliar with some of the characters and events mentioned. I know I missed the Bounty Hunt novella as that has not come out in an ebook format. It seems I missed other references to the Cain family, too. That gives me a GREAT excuse to go back and read the whole series over again, which I’ve been wanting to do, anyway. :)

What I like most about this story is the way in which it shows a family dealing with the impact of a toxic person. We all have THOSE people in the family — the troublemaker, the energy vampire, the one no one wants to see but can’t always avoid. In many cases, this person has a profound negative impact on everyone they touch. Learning to deal with a person like this can take years of therapy and introspection. It is great to see how Elena’s family deals with their toxic family member in a variety of ways.

Copy provided by NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. Review courtesy of onebooktwo.com | one book, two reviews. ( )
  InvestedIvana | Dec 18, 2015 |
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Malcolm...well, Malcolm stared. That's all he did. As if he'd been plunged into an episode of The Twilight Zone, one where nine-year-olds discussed the subtleties of language and learned Japanese to real original texts. And one where, apparently, nine-year-olds could render Malcolm Danvers speechless. (chapter 4)
Davis looked like a Cain, which is to say he was big and brawny and not about to win a beauty contest anytime soon. He wasn't as downright ugly as some Cains, but only a touch to the negative side of average. He also looked a little less rough-around-the-edges than most of his family. Nick jokes that whenever he meets a Cain, he hears the banjos from Deliverance in the background. Davis looked more like a college football player, dressed in jeans, sneakers and a pullover, with short brown hair and a clean-shaven square face. (chapter 6)
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Elena Michaels and her werewolf pack team up with a family of Mutts (werewolves who don't belong to any pack) to attempt to track a group of werewolf-killers. The Cains are a mutt clan, and are known for being big, brutish and not-too-bright; they embody all the worst stereotypes about werewolves. But not even the Cains deserve to be hunted down and skinned like animals. When Davis Cain comes to the Pack for help, Alpha Elena Michaels can't refuse him. But Elena is also dealing with Malcolm Danvers, onetime enforcer, full-time psycho. If Elena has to let Malcolm in, she's going to make full use of him... and the best person to catch monsters is one who knows exactly how they think.

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