KITTY TAKES A HOLIDAY
CARRIE VAUGHN
Fantasy/Paranormal
Hachette Book Group
ISBN# 0446616419
$6.99
Print - Available now
RATING: 4.5 Enchantments
Burned out? Not ready to face the public? Got offered a book deal and need peace and quiet to write in? Do the Walden thing!
And that’s exactly what Kitty does. But she doesn’t have a pond to look at near her little cabin. Just lots of trees. As for peace and quiet, it doesn’t happen. Not when the friendly greeting at her nearest grocery store is having a gun barrel in her face. Nor when dead animals appear on her door step. Before long though, her ideals of peaceful solitude are completely shattered when Cormac comes calling with his mauled friend and lawyer, Ben O’Farrell, in his arms.
As Kitty attempts to acclimate Ben to his new life, things around the cabin get even freakier, particularly when Kitty sees something with red eyes in the woods, and a circle of barbed wire crosses are found circling her rented cabin.
While the sexual tension between Kitty and Cormac sizzles, the sex that goes on between Kitty and Ben pops! When Cormac can no longer handle it, he takes off, but sends someone to help Kitty find out what’s been going on. When it becomes apparent that a great evil has taken root, and Cormac is arrested for shooting a woman, Kitty and Ben take off for New Mexico to find out if Cormac’s victim really was just some crazy woman in a wolf’s skin, or something far worse.
Yay! Another stunner from Ms. Vaughn. This book was a little more serious than the previous one, but still very much so worth the read. The surprise of Ben’s wolfhood definitely got my attention!
The sex scenes are perfect, in my humble opinion. Descriptive without being crass or too over the top. It’s a hard line to walk, and yet Ms. Vaughn makes it look easy. She also creates a page-turning plot with the appearance of great ease. The answer of one mystery simply leads one to the question of another, leaving the reader wanting more Kitty, and more of her world.
Somehow, Ms. Vaughn is able to make her characters and settings very real. It’s obvious that some research has gone into her works, as the subject of skin walkers is very difficult and touchy to deal with.
I applaud your work and am waiting with no small amount of impatience for more! Keep it up Ms. Vaughn!
Cimorene
ENCHANTING REVIEWS
July 2007
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Friday, October 17, 2008
KITTY GOES TO WASHINGTON by Carrie Vaughn
KITTY GOES TO WASHINGTON
CARRIE VAUGHN
Fantasy/Paranormal
Warner Books
ISBN# 0446616419
$6.99
Print - Available now
RATING: 5 Enchantments
“Burn the heathens!” This seems to be the public outcry now that Kitty and her kind have been outted. But what can you do?
Kitty gets a call from Ben O’Farrell, her lawyer, and finds out that she’s been subpoenaed by the Senate to testify in Washington D.C. about her place in the order of “paranatural biology”. Since she’s been run out of Denver, Kitty’s been broadcasting “The Midnight Hour” all across the country, and now, she’s headed to Washington.
When she reaches D.C., she is quickly convinced to accept the Old World hospitality of Alette, Vampire Mistress of the City. Just as quickly, she is urged to shun the local weres, who are considered dangerous without an Alpha.
While Alette tries her best to keep Kitty safe, our favorite lycanthrope keeps herself moving. She meets up with the local were community, and quickly bonds with Luis, a Brazilian wereleopard who makes Kitty purr.
Kitty meets many interesting people at the hearings, including Senator Joseph Duke, who is convinced that the members of the paranormal world are the spawn of Satan; Dr. Paul Flemming, who headed up the Center for the Study of Paranatural Biology; Jeffrey Miles, a communications facilitator – read psychic; and the elusive Elijah Smith, the Faith Healer, or is he something more sinister?
Ms. Vaughn has hit just the right note with me here because she tells us more about Kitty as a person, with all of her thoughts and feelings. Again, the romantic element to this book isn’t necessary to keep the plot going, although it most certainly makes it a helluva hot read! I’ve read this book twice, and it had me hooked both times.
I’m impressed – yet again – with Ms. Vaughn’s ability to spin a tale and keep me on the edge of my seat the whole time, and sometimes even falling off it while I laugh my buns off. I highly look forward to reading more work by Ms. Vaughn because I know that she will provide something new, fresh, and exciting every time. Well, that and she’s an amazing author.
This book is one sweet read. Ms. Vaughn, I’m eagerly awaiting more of your work. It’s insanely awesome!
Cimorene
ENCHANTING REVIEWS
July 2007
CARRIE VAUGHN
Fantasy/Paranormal
Warner Books
ISBN# 0446616419
$6.99
Print - Available now
RATING: 5 Enchantments
“Burn the heathens!” This seems to be the public outcry now that Kitty and her kind have been outted. But what can you do?
Kitty gets a call from Ben O’Farrell, her lawyer, and finds out that she’s been subpoenaed by the Senate to testify in Washington D.C. about her place in the order of “paranatural biology”. Since she’s been run out of Denver, Kitty’s been broadcasting “The Midnight Hour” all across the country, and now, she’s headed to Washington.
When she reaches D.C., she is quickly convinced to accept the Old World hospitality of Alette, Vampire Mistress of the City. Just as quickly, she is urged to shun the local weres, who are considered dangerous without an Alpha.
While Alette tries her best to keep Kitty safe, our favorite lycanthrope keeps herself moving. She meets up with the local were community, and quickly bonds with Luis, a Brazilian wereleopard who makes Kitty purr.
Kitty meets many interesting people at the hearings, including Senator Joseph Duke, who is convinced that the members of the paranormal world are the spawn of Satan; Dr. Paul Flemming, who headed up the Center for the Study of Paranatural Biology; Jeffrey Miles, a communications facilitator – read psychic; and the elusive Elijah Smith, the Faith Healer, or is he something more sinister?
Ms. Vaughn has hit just the right note with me here because she tells us more about Kitty as a person, with all of her thoughts and feelings. Again, the romantic element to this book isn’t necessary to keep the plot going, although it most certainly makes it a helluva hot read! I’ve read this book twice, and it had me hooked both times.
I’m impressed – yet again – with Ms. Vaughn’s ability to spin a tale and keep me on the edge of my seat the whole time, and sometimes even falling off it while I laugh my buns off. I highly look forward to reading more work by Ms. Vaughn because I know that she will provide something new, fresh, and exciting every time. Well, that and she’s an amazing author.
This book is one sweet read. Ms. Vaughn, I’m eagerly awaiting more of your work. It’s insanely awesome!
Cimorene
ENCHANTING REVIEWS
July 2007
KITTY AND THE MIDNIGHT HOUR by Carrie Vaughn
KITTY AND THE MIDNIGHT HOUR
CARRIE VAUGHN
Fantasy/Paranormal
Hachette Book Group
ISBN# 0446616419
$6.99
Print - Available 2007
RATING: 4 Enchantments
A closet werewolf as a night DJ sounds a little fantastic. But in KITTY AND THE MIDNIGHT HOUR, Kitty Norville is a closet werewolf night-DJ. She inadvertently turns her program into an advice arena, giving vampires and weres a place to call in and talk, while keeping her mouth closed about her own issues…Like not telling her mom why she couldn’t make family events. Major guilt!
While ratings on the show skyrocket, Kitty’s Alpha is none too pleased with the publicity, and neither is the local vampire Family Master, Arturo. Both are afraid that Kitty’s show will prompt a witch hunt and send everyone running for cover. The Alpha, Carl, insists that Kitty quit the show, but she won’t give up something that is finally hers and not the pack’s.
Soon Kitty receives a call that has her scrambling for cover from a bounty hunter who sounds only too confused about why he’s hunting a non-rogue werewolf.
The plot only thickens when a lesser vampire comes to Kitty to find out about a traveling Faith Healer who claims to heal Vampires and Weres, and the pack hierarchy seems to come undone.
Who set the bounty hunter on Kitty and why? Who is the Faith Healer from whom no one returns? Kitty is bound and determined to find out.
The title kind of threw me off, but the book is excellent! Ms. Vaughn can spin a tale. The real rollercoaster ride is in how this book is written. You come to a pressing conclusion in the book, and you think, ok, we must be done. But you turn a page, and lo and behold, here’s another piece of the puzzle to be solved! I love it.
The sudden discovery of Carl’s true nature seems a bit abrupt, but I suppose that if it’s that way for Kitty, it should be that way for us.
There is a hint of romance here, but it doesn’t overpower the story, nor is it key to keep it moving. A perfect balance has been struck.Kitty reminds me of mystery-solving Stephanie Plum, in a Sookie Stackhouse world, with a Meredith Gentry attitude.
Miss Vaughn, you rock my socks! Keep it up!!!
Cimorene
ENCHANTING REVIEWS
July 2007
CARRIE VAUGHN
Fantasy/Paranormal
Hachette Book Group
ISBN# 0446616419
$6.99
Print - Available 2007
RATING: 4 Enchantments
A closet werewolf as a night DJ sounds a little fantastic. But in KITTY AND THE MIDNIGHT HOUR, Kitty Norville is a closet werewolf night-DJ. She inadvertently turns her program into an advice arena, giving vampires and weres a place to call in and talk, while keeping her mouth closed about her own issues…Like not telling her mom why she couldn’t make family events. Major guilt!
While ratings on the show skyrocket, Kitty’s Alpha is none too pleased with the publicity, and neither is the local vampire Family Master, Arturo. Both are afraid that Kitty’s show will prompt a witch hunt and send everyone running for cover. The Alpha, Carl, insists that Kitty quit the show, but she won’t give up something that is finally hers and not the pack’s.
Soon Kitty receives a call that has her scrambling for cover from a bounty hunter who sounds only too confused about why he’s hunting a non-rogue werewolf.
The plot only thickens when a lesser vampire comes to Kitty to find out about a traveling Faith Healer who claims to heal Vampires and Weres, and the pack hierarchy seems to come undone.
Who set the bounty hunter on Kitty and why? Who is the Faith Healer from whom no one returns? Kitty is bound and determined to find out.
The title kind of threw me off, but the book is excellent! Ms. Vaughn can spin a tale. The real rollercoaster ride is in how this book is written. You come to a pressing conclusion in the book, and you think, ok, we must be done. But you turn a page, and lo and behold, here’s another piece of the puzzle to be solved! I love it.
The sudden discovery of Carl’s true nature seems a bit abrupt, but I suppose that if it’s that way for Kitty, it should be that way for us.
There is a hint of romance here, but it doesn’t overpower the story, nor is it key to keep it moving. A perfect balance has been struck.Kitty reminds me of mystery-solving Stephanie Plum, in a Sookie Stackhouse world, with a Meredith Gentry attitude.
Miss Vaughn, you rock my socks! Keep it up!!!
Cimorene
ENCHANTING REVIEWS
July 2007
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