Familiar – Michelle Rowen (novella)
Amazon Digital Services/Smashwords, 2011
RRP: US$0.99
ASIN: B0050OWWIO

Reviewed by Liz Grzyb

Familiar, a novella first published in Trisha Telep’s Kiss Me Deadly anthology of young adult paranormal romance, has been released separately as an ebook on Smashwords and Amazon. It’s about a young, reluctant witch-in-training, Brenda, who chooses a kitten as her familiar, only to find out that it’s no ordinary cat.

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Fanged & Fabulous – Michelle Rowen (Immortality Bites #2)
Orion Gollancz, 2010 (reprint)
334 pages
RRP: AU$22.99
ISBN: 9780575094024

Reviewed by Liz Grzyb

Michelle Rowen’s writing is filled with humour, pace and romance. Fanged & Fabulous is no different. Following on from Bitten & Smitten, we follow Sarah Dearly in her romps around Toronto as she gets used to being a vampire and tries to figure out what is happening in her relationship with her boyfriend Thierry. Of course, many people are trying to kill Sarah, as she managed to get quite a name for herself (albeit inadvertently) in the last novel. Hilarity ensues!

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Bitten & Smitten – Michelle Rowen (Immortality Bites #1)
Hachette Gollancz, 2010 (reprint)
372 pages
RRP: AU$22.99
ISBN: 9780575094000

Reviewed by Liz Grzyb

Bitten & Smitten is the first in the Immortality Bites series by Michelle Rowen. I’d read some of her work before, the young adult novel Reign or Shine, and found it amusing and light-hearted. Bitten & Smitten is no less amusing, but follows the somewhat darker tale of Sarah, who was unwillingly turned into a vampire on a blind date. When her sire is killed by the vampire hunters thronging the city, she flees, and is drawn into a love/hate relationship with Thierry, a sexy, six hundred year old vampire with enough ennui to sink a ship.

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Reign or Shine – Michelle Rowen
Bloomsbury Allen & Unwin, 2010
288 pages
RRP: AU$16.99
ISBN: 978-0-8027-9534-2

Review by Liz Grzyb

Nikki Donovan is a typical teenager. She’s just moved to a new town and a new school after her mother married husband #4, and the Winter Formal is coming up! However, her dreams of the most popular boy in the school are disrupted by a strange boy who seems to be stalking her telling her bizarre stories about her father being a demon king.

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