This is my introduction to online fiction and Armstrong’s approach seems to be particularly good in that she asks for input from her fans and actually takes their ideas and opinions on board – it’s not every writer who would be so humble. This collection contains five short stories and three novellas.

I found myself literally gagging to get to the next page and see what happens next, so much so that I’ve already begun reading the next online novella in the series, Ascension. Kelley Armstrong’s Tales of The Otherworld is a collection of short stories and novellas featuring characters from the fantasy author’s popular Otherworld series novels. It’s well-written, full of action and insight, and is completely engrossing – I literally sped through it despite currently reading another book at the same time. This is something that usually annoys the hell out of me in novels, but the Otherworld series seems to be the exception to the rule and I’ve barely noticed it while reading any of the books. It’s entirely written in the first person, from Clay’s point of view. It was incredibly interesting to see the dark beginnings of Clay, who, as all Armstrong fans know, eventually grows up to be the main muscle of The Pack and Jeremy’s body guard as well as Elena’s lover. A very popular series by Kelley Armstrong are the Women of the Otherworld books, featuring fantasy, urban fantasy, contemporary and shapeshifters tropes.

Savage is Armstrong’s first online novella and is a prequel to Bitten in that it follows Clay’s story, of how, as a boy, he became a werewolf and was subsequently found and taken in by Jeremy Danvers. Kelley Armstrong has published 155 romance novels, with an average book rating of 4.05 /5 stars.

ISBN: -none- (online novella) (Men of the Otherworld ISBN: 978-1841497433) Title: Savage (Available as part of Men of the Otherworld as of February 2009)

Beginnings by Kelley Armstrong