Blood And Chocolate Essay

Blood and Chocolate is a young adult urban fantasy novel about a girl named Vivian who’s a loup-garou or werewolf. She used to live peacefully with her pack. Until some of them decided to up the game and start killing people. The humans who live near them suspected them and tried to chase them away by burning their home. The fire ended up killing Vivian’s father who’s also the pack’s leader. Now, they’ve left and moved to the suburbs area of Maryland. Without a leader, the pack is beginning to fall apart. Vivian feels that she doesn’t belong to the pack anymore. Instead, she finds her place among the Amoeba. A social group consists of her school friends. The problem is the members of Amoeba are humans and Vivian falls in love with one of them.
In fact, all of her clan (including Vivian’s mother) behave that way; nasty and vulgar. But then again, these ‘people’ are driven by their animal instinct. All they had in mind is survivals which means food and reproduce (if you know what I mean). Once I had that in mind, I got used to these characters. But the premise of this book is how Vivian got caught in between. She wants to have normal life as a human, but she realizes that she still has this strong animal instinct.
This book has its flaws. For example, Aiden who is Vivian’s love interest. In my opinion, his character is just dull. He seems kind and gentle at first but he’s a coward. He’s like any other teenage boys. He often says how he longs for something different with his life which I suspect is his way trying to act to be cool. I wish the friendship between Vivian and Bingo (if I’m not mistaken) was explored more. It would be interesting to see how the female friendship between werewolf and a human portrayed in this book.
All in all, it was a fun and enjoyable read. Although I don’t recommend this book for young readers as they might take it at face value and think that such behavior depicted in this book is