Well, it certainly is refreshing (to say the least) to have a female protagonist who is aggressively confident in her sexuality. Vivian knows she is beautiful and she knows that you know it too. Blood and Chocolate has some really good writing but I wasn't feeling a lot of it because I'm just not really that big on werewolves. The wildness, the hair and the drool, the stink of scent-marking, the primal violence of pack dominance and mating, the bestiality overtones. So there's a lot of that here. Annette Curtis Klause does a really good job in depicting what the social lives and behaviors of canines would be, if they were in human form: constantly humping each other and fighting for dominance of the pack.