Book Review (56).

Hidden (Otherworld Stories #10.4 Novella)

by Kelley Armstrong 
Publication: 28th December 2011
Publisher: Subterranean Press
Pages: 193
Genre: Urban Fantasy
Age Appropriate: Adult
**Warning May Contain Spoilers From Previous Books In The Series**

Hiking through the snow, holiday baking and playing board games by the fire – what’s not to love about an old-fashioned family Christmas?

Werewolves Elena Michaels and Clayton Danvers want to give their four-year-old twins, Kate and Logan, something their parents never had: a nice, normal holiday. No Pack responsibilities, no homicidal half-demons or power-hungry sorcerers to deal with – just the four of them, alone, at a chalet outside Ontario’s Algonquin Park.

Then a strange werewolf shows up at their door…while the town is buzzing about a young man, back from college, found half-eaten in the woods. And there’s the missing little girl …

With all the signs pointing to a rogue mutt with a taste for human flesh, Elena and Clay have no choice but to investigate. But are they the hunters – or the hunted?

My Thoughts.

This series is one of my favourites which is sad because the last book is coming out this year, so I was extra glad that this novella was released so that the fans could say their goodbyes to Elena and Clay who are my favourite couple in the whole series.

Elena and Clay have rented a chalet for the Christmas season so they can spend it together with just their four year old twins Logan and Kate and the rest of the pack will join them the day after Christmas.

Their first night there they are visited by the resident werewolf Douglas Eaton, who seems nervous and denies knowing who Elena and Clay are although Kate who is showing signs of an empathic gift tells them that he's lying, so they investigate in town and online to try to find out more about him.

And so to further investigate they have Nick, Reese and Noah come down to look after the twins while they're investigating Douglas and the apparent 'accidental death' of a local.

What I loved so much about this novella is the interaction we get to see between Elena, Clay and the twins, we've had glimpses in previous books but this was devoted mainly to those four and I love how smart and cute they are.

Elena is struggling to decide whether or not to tell the twins that their parents are werewolves and that they might be one day too but she also doen't want to get their hopes up in case it doesn't happen.

I would love it if there was a spin-off with this family or even the twins I don't want to say good-bye just yet.

But I absolutely loved it and just wish it was longer.

I give this 5/5