Blood and Chocolate is a book that I picked up after seeing the movie.

Blood and Chocolate is a book that I picked up after seeing the movie. Very different but I ended up liking both, even if they appear to have nothing to do with each other other than a shared title and names...

In the book Vivian is a high school aged closet werewolf. She's lonely, and spends most of her time by herself working on a mural. She falls for a human who integrates her into his group of friends helping her to be less lonely in her new city. But meanwhile the pack politics are getting complicated with a new leader being chosen and pressure on her to pick a werewolf "mate" instead of a human. In the movie Vivian appears to be collegiate aged though it never really comes up, and the human boyfriend is the artist.

Aidan is able in the movie to accept Vivian's species after some angsting, and the plot is significantly different because of this, instead of being about acceptance issues etc it's more of an action flick about escaping the evil pack and their bizarre traditions. In the book however, he freaks out and breaks up with her. Oddly, the hero and the villain are switched in he movie adaptation of the book.

The biggest difference in the role of Gabriel. In the movie, he's the evil bad guy who leaves her aunt because of some prophecy about changing mates every 7 years. Gabriel in the book however, is actually a good guy, never was with her aunt, and generally takes care of the pack. He's also a lot younger, collegiate aged in the book vs middle aged in the movie.

Movie: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000OCY7TY?ie=UTF8&tag=shasbloxom-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B000OCY7TY

Book: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0385734212?ie=UTF8&tag=shasbloxom-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0385734212