Kitty and the Midnight Hour (Kitty Norville)
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There are now 11 books in this series, so I donât consider it a spoiler that Kitty survives the first book! Also, Iâm still reading the series, so I obviously love it. Kitty and the Midnight Hour is the debut novel in the long-running series. Even though Iâm now reading book 11, Iâm going to go back in time and review the previous books while trying to keep the series as a whole separate from each book.
Book 1 will always be my favorite, for many reasons. I give it an enthusiastic five stars as an urban fantasy must-read.
First and foremost is Kitty herself. She isn't the typical kick-ass heroine so popular in todayâs urban fantasies. She isn't a cop, a private eye, or a bounty hunter. She is a very ordinary woman who was brutally attacked by a werewolf and didnât have much choice but to join the local werewolf pack. A major theme of the first book is Kittyâs struggle with her werewolf self and finding her place in the pack.
When the story opens, Kitty's place is at the very bottom of the pack, and she is deeply in the closet, not having told even her family that she is a werewolf. Werewolves are not known to the general public.
The rest of the review covers plot points in the book.
Kitty is a DJ at a local radio station, where she runs the midnight hour. One night she gets bored with playing music on request and starts talking on the air and taking calls. She gets a call from an apparent wacko talking about vampires and asks people to call in with anything âweird.â The switchboard lights up in no time, âKitty and the Midnight Hourâ is accidentally created, and the show takes off quickly.
Soon her professional life is the best it has ever been, but her life in the pack is lousy. Carl, the alpha of the pack, thinks itâs his right to bully and control everyone else in the pack. When we first meet him, Kitty is just trying to be a normal human, but Carl won't allow that. He expects sex from anyone he wants in the pack, and that includes Kitty. Carrie Vaughn does an amazing job describing pack behavior â including Kittyâs submissiveness simultaneously from wolf and human points of view. We also meet Carlâs mate and fellow pack-leader Meg, who definitely doesn't like Kitty. Her best friend TJ. â her gay BFF â is her only friend and ally in the pack.
Kittyâs show gets her unwanted attention from the local vampire master, who isn't pleased with a talk show devoted to the supernatural even if, as Kitty insists, no one really believes it.
One night, the moment everyone warned about arrives, and a bounty hunter named Cormac arrives to assassinate Kitty. In a gutsy move that made me fall in love with Kitty Norville, she talks Cormac out of killing herâ¦temporarily.
With that threat on hold, Kitty faces her abusive pack leader who insists she must quit the radio show. As she stands up to him, her role in the pack and her self esteem both start to change. A pivotal moment is facing off Carlâs enforcer, who happens to be her best friend TJ Instead of fighting him as a wolf, she appeals to his human nature. This is a often-repeated theme in the series.
But problems keep piling on. Cormac is still a threat, and the vampires are unhappy with Kitty. To add more crazy to the mix, Dr Paul Fleming from the CDC sets his sights on Kitty, claiming to be an expert in paranatural biology, and the police ask Kitty to consult on a murder case. They suspect a rogue werewolf, and she seems to be the resident expert â albeit accidentally. Throw in a little cult action (the Church of the Pure Faith) and the result is non-stop tension and suspense for Kitty and the reader. Kitty spends much of her time talking to people â often on air â so I wouldn't say non-stop action but Carrie Vaughn is excellent at ramping up the drama even when thereâs only dialog.
When things get really bad between Kitty and the werewolf that turned her â Zan â her friend TJ kills him. Kitty calls Cormac for help dealing with that, figuring that he is in her debt for the moment. This is the moment when their relationship starts to change forever. The death of Zan also brings lawyer Ben OâFarrell, Cormacâs cousin, into Kittyâs life.
TJ and Kitty figure out that someone in the pack had set Zan on Kitty and wants her dead. It turns out that the rogue wolf (wanted by police) and the attack by Zan are related. Kitty finds the rogue wolf and discovers he had been made by Meg in an attempt to overthrow Carl. That discovery is the final straw for Kitty. She tries to challenge Meg and ends up facing down Carl. She survives, but at great cost. TJ comes to her rescue and is killed saving her. Kitty is allowed to live, but she is banished from the pack and Carlâs territory.
There are a ton of loose ends by the end of Kitty and the Midnight Hour but when I first read this I was eager for the next book.
Book 1 will always be my favorite, for many reasons. I give it an enthusiastic five stars as an urban fantasy must-read.
First and foremost is Kitty herself. She isn't the typical kick-ass heroine so popular in todayâs urban fantasies. She isn't a cop, a private eye, or a bounty hunter. She is a very ordinary woman who was brutally attacked by a werewolf and didnât have much choice but to join the local werewolf pack. A major theme of the first book is Kittyâs struggle with her werewolf self and finding her place in the pack.
When the story opens, Kitty's place is at the very bottom of the pack, and she is deeply in the closet, not having told even her family that she is a werewolf. Werewolves are not known to the general public.
The rest of the review covers plot points in the book.
Kitty is a DJ at a local radio station, where she runs the midnight hour. One night she gets bored with playing music on request and starts talking on the air and taking calls. She gets a call from an apparent wacko talking about vampires and asks people to call in with anything âweird.â The switchboard lights up in no time, âKitty and the Midnight Hourâ is accidentally created, and the show takes off quickly.
Soon her professional life is the best it has ever been, but her life in the pack is lousy. Carl, the alpha of the pack, thinks itâs his right to bully and control everyone else in the pack. When we first meet him, Kitty is just trying to be a normal human, but Carl won't allow that. He expects sex from anyone he wants in the pack, and that includes Kitty. Carrie Vaughn does an amazing job describing pack behavior â including Kittyâs submissiveness simultaneously from wolf and human points of view. We also meet Carlâs mate and fellow pack-leader Meg, who definitely doesn't like Kitty. Her best friend TJ. â her gay BFF â is her only friend and ally in the pack.
Kittyâs show gets her unwanted attention from the local vampire master, who isn't pleased with a talk show devoted to the supernatural even if, as Kitty insists, no one really believes it.
One night, the moment everyone warned about arrives, and a bounty hunter named Cormac arrives to assassinate Kitty. In a gutsy move that made me fall in love with Kitty Norville, she talks Cormac out of killing herâ¦temporarily.
With that threat on hold, Kitty faces her abusive pack leader who insists she must quit the radio show. As she stands up to him, her role in the pack and her self esteem both start to change. A pivotal moment is facing off Carlâs enforcer, who happens to be her best friend TJ Instead of fighting him as a wolf, she appeals to his human nature. This is a often-repeated theme in the series.
But problems keep piling on. Cormac is still a threat, and the vampires are unhappy with Kitty. To add more crazy to the mix, Dr Paul Fleming from the CDC sets his sights on Kitty, claiming to be an expert in paranatural biology, and the police ask Kitty to consult on a murder case. They suspect a rogue werewolf, and she seems to be the resident expert â albeit accidentally. Throw in a little cult action (the Church of the Pure Faith) and the result is non-stop tension and suspense for Kitty and the reader. Kitty spends much of her time talking to people â often on air â so I wouldn't say non-stop action but Carrie Vaughn is excellent at ramping up the drama even when thereâs only dialog.
When things get really bad between Kitty and the werewolf that turned her â Zan â her friend TJ kills him. Kitty calls Cormac for help dealing with that, figuring that he is in her debt for the moment. This is the moment when their relationship starts to change forever. The death of Zan also brings lawyer Ben OâFarrell, Cormacâs cousin, into Kittyâs life.
TJ and Kitty figure out that someone in the pack had set Zan on Kitty and wants her dead. It turns out that the rogue wolf (wanted by police) and the attack by Zan are related. Kitty finds the rogue wolf and discovers he had been made by Meg in an attempt to overthrow Carl. That discovery is the final straw for Kitty. She tries to challenge Meg and ends up facing down Carl. She survives, but at great cost. TJ comes to her rescue and is killed saving her. Kitty is allowed to live, but she is banished from the pack and Carlâs territory.
There are a ton of loose ends by the end of Kitty and the Midnight Hour but when I first read this I was eager for the next book.
There are now 11 books in this series, so I donât consider it a spoiler that Kitty survives the first book! Also, Iâm still reading the series, so I obviously love it. Kitty and the Midnight Hour is the debut novel in the long-running series. Even though Iâm now reading book 11, Iâm going to go back in time and review the previous books while trying to keep the series as a whole separate from each book.
Book 1 will always be my favorite, for many reasons. I give it an enthusiastic five stars as an urban fantasy must-read.
First and foremost is Kitty herself. She isn't the typical kick-ass heroine so popular in todayâs urban fantasies. She isn't a cop, a private eye, or a bounty hunter. She is a very ordinary woman who was brutally attacked by a werewolf and didnât have much choice but to join the local werewolf pack. A major theme of the first book is Kittyâs struggle with her werewolf self and finding her place in the pack.
When the story opens, Kitty's place is at the very bottom of the pack, and she is deeply in the closet, not having told even her family that she is a werewolf. Werewolves are not known to the general public.
The rest of the review covers plot points in the book.
Kitty is a DJ at a local radio station, where she runs the midnight hour. One night she gets bored with playing music on request and starts talking on the air and taking calls. She gets a call from an apparent wacko talking about vampires and asks people to call in with anything âweird.â The switchboard lights up in no time, âKitty and the Midnight Hourâ is accidentally created, and the show takes off quickly.
Soon her professional life is the best it has ever been, but her life in the pack is lousy. Carl, the alpha of the pack, thinks itâs his right to bully and control everyone else in the pack. When we first meet him, Kitty is just trying to be a normal human, but Carl won't allow that. He expects sex from anyone he wants in the pack, and that includes Kitty. Carrie Vaughn does an amazing job describing pack behavior â including Kittyâs submissiveness simultaneously from wolf and human points of view. We also meet Carlâs mate and fellow pack-leader Meg, who definitely doesn't like Kitty. Her best friend TJ. â her gay BFF â is her only friend and ally in the pack.
Kittyâs show gets her unwanted attention from the local vampire master, who isn't pleased with a talk show devoted to the supernatural even if, as Kitty insists, no one really believes it.
One night, the moment everyone warned about arrives, and a bounty hunter named Cormac arrives to assassinate Kitty. In a gutsy move that made me fall in love with Kitty Norville, she talks Cormac out of killing herâ¦temporarily.
With that threat on hold, Kitty faces her abusive pack leader who insists she must quit the radio show. As she stands up to him, her role in the pack and her self esteem both start to change. A pivotal moment is facing off Carlâs enforcer, who happens to be her best friend TJ Instead of fighting him as a wolf, she appeals to his human nature. This is a often-repeated theme in the series.
But problems keep piling on. Cormac is still a threat, and the vampires are unhappy with Kitty. To add more crazy to the mix, Dr Paul Fleming from the CDC sets his sights on Kitty, claiming to be an expert in paranatural biology, and the police ask Kitty to consult on a murder case. They suspect a rogue werewolf, and she seems to be the resident expert â albeit accidentally. Throw in a little cult action (the Church of the Pure Faith) and the result is non-stop tension and suspense for Kitty and the reader. Kitty spends much of her time talking to people â often on air â so I wouldn't say non-stop action but Carrie Vaughn is excellent at ramping up the drama even when thereâs only dialog.
When things get really bad between Kitty and the werewolf that turned her â Zan â her friend TJ kills him. Kitty calls Cormac for help dealing with that, figuring that he is in her debt for the moment. This is the moment when their relationship starts to change forever. The death of Zan also brings lawyer Ben OâFarrell, Cormacâs cousin, into Kittyâs life.
TJ and Kitty figure out that someone in the pack had set Zan on Kitty and wants her dead. It turns out that the rogue wolf (wanted by police) and the attack by Zan are related. Kitty finds the rogue wolf and discovers he had been made by Meg in an attempt to overthrow Carl. That discovery is the final straw for Kitty. She tries to challenge Meg and ends up facing down Carl. She survives, but at great cost. TJ comes to her rescue and is killed saving her. Kitty is allowed to live, but she is banished from the pack and Carlâs territory.
There are a ton of loose ends by the end of Kitty and the Midnight Hour but when I first read this I was eager for the next book.
Book 1 will always be my favorite, for many reasons. I give it an enthusiastic five stars as an urban fantasy must-read.
First and foremost is Kitty herself. She isn't the typical kick-ass heroine so popular in todayâs urban fantasies. She isn't a cop, a private eye, or a bounty hunter. She is a very ordinary woman who was brutally attacked by a werewolf and didnât have much choice but to join the local werewolf pack. A major theme of the first book is Kittyâs struggle with her werewolf self and finding her place in the pack.
When the story opens, Kitty's place is at the very bottom of the pack, and she is deeply in the closet, not having told even her family that she is a werewolf. Werewolves are not known to the general public.
The rest of the review covers plot points in the book.
Kitty is a DJ at a local radio station, where she runs the midnight hour. One night she gets bored with playing music on request and starts talking on the air and taking calls. She gets a call from an apparent wacko talking about vampires and asks people to call in with anything âweird.â The switchboard lights up in no time, âKitty and the Midnight Hourâ is accidentally created, and the show takes off quickly.
Soon her professional life is the best it has ever been, but her life in the pack is lousy. Carl, the alpha of the pack, thinks itâs his right to bully and control everyone else in the pack. When we first meet him, Kitty is just trying to be a normal human, but Carl won't allow that. He expects sex from anyone he wants in the pack, and that includes Kitty. Carrie Vaughn does an amazing job describing pack behavior â including Kittyâs submissiveness simultaneously from wolf and human points of view. We also meet Carlâs mate and fellow pack-leader Meg, who definitely doesn't like Kitty. Her best friend TJ. â her gay BFF â is her only friend and ally in the pack.
Kittyâs show gets her unwanted attention from the local vampire master, who isn't pleased with a talk show devoted to the supernatural even if, as Kitty insists, no one really believes it.
One night, the moment everyone warned about arrives, and a bounty hunter named Cormac arrives to assassinate Kitty. In a gutsy move that made me fall in love with Kitty Norville, she talks Cormac out of killing herâ¦temporarily.
With that threat on hold, Kitty faces her abusive pack leader who insists she must quit the radio show. As she stands up to him, her role in the pack and her self esteem both start to change. A pivotal moment is facing off Carlâs enforcer, who happens to be her best friend TJ Instead of fighting him as a wolf, she appeals to his human nature. This is a often-repeated theme in the series.
But problems keep piling on. Cormac is still a threat, and the vampires are unhappy with Kitty. To add more crazy to the mix, Dr Paul Fleming from the CDC sets his sights on Kitty, claiming to be an expert in paranatural biology, and the police ask Kitty to consult on a murder case. They suspect a rogue werewolf, and she seems to be the resident expert â albeit accidentally. Throw in a little cult action (the Church of the Pure Faith) and the result is non-stop tension and suspense for Kitty and the reader. Kitty spends much of her time talking to people â often on air â so I wouldn't say non-stop action but Carrie Vaughn is excellent at ramping up the drama even when thereâs only dialog.
When things get really bad between Kitty and the werewolf that turned her â Zan â her friend TJ kills him. Kitty calls Cormac for help dealing with that, figuring that he is in her debt for the moment. This is the moment when their relationship starts to change forever. The death of Zan also brings lawyer Ben OâFarrell, Cormacâs cousin, into Kittyâs life.
TJ and Kitty figure out that someone in the pack had set Zan on Kitty and wants her dead. It turns out that the rogue wolf (wanted by police) and the attack by Zan are related. Kitty finds the rogue wolf and discovers he had been made by Meg in an attempt to overthrow Carl. That discovery is the final straw for Kitty. She tries to challenge Meg and ends up facing down Carl. She survives, but at great cost. TJ comes to her rescue and is killed saving her. Kitty is allowed to live, but she is banished from the pack and Carlâs territory.
There are a ton of loose ends by the end of Kitty and the Midnight Hour but when I first read this I was eager for the next book.
There are now 11 books in this series, so I donât consider it a spoiler that Kitty survives the first book! Also, Iâm still reading the series, so I obviously love it. Kitty and the Midnight Hour is the debut novel in the long-running series. Even though Iâm now reading book 11, Iâm going to go back in time and review the previous books while trying to keep the series as a whole separate from each book.
Book 1 will always be my favorite, for many reasons. I give it an enthusiastic five stars as an urban fantasy must-read.
First and foremost is Kitty herself. She isn't the typical kick-ass heroine so popular in todayâs urban fantasies. She isn't a cop, a private eye, or a bounty hunter. She is a very ordinary woman who was brutally attacked by a werewolf and didnât have much choice but to join the local werewolf pack. A major theme of the first book is Kittyâs struggle with her werewolf self and finding her place in the pack.
When the story opens, Kitty's place is at the very bottom of the pack, and she is deeply in the closet, not having told even her family that she is a werewolf. Werewolves are not known to the general public.
The rest of the review covers plot points in the book.
Kitty is a DJ at a local radio station, where she runs the midnight hour. One night she gets bored with playing music on request and starts talking on the air and taking calls. She gets a call from an apparent wacko talking about vampires and asks people to call in with anything âweird.â The switchboard lights up in no time, âKitty and the Midnight Hourâ is accidentally created, and the show takes off quickly.
Soon her professional life is the best it has ever been, but her life in the pack is lousy. Carl, the alpha of the pack, thinks itâs his right to bully and control everyone else in the pack. When we first meet him, Kitty is just trying to be a normal human, but Carl won't allow that. He expects sex from anyone he wants in the pack, and that includes Kitty. Carrie Vaughn does an amazing job describing pack behavior â including Kittyâs submissiveness simultaneously from wolf and human points of view. We also meet Carlâs mate and fellow pack-leader Meg, who definitely doesn't like Kitty. Her best friend TJ. â her gay BFF â is her only friend and ally in the pack.
Kittyâs show gets her unwanted attention from the local vampire master, who isn't pleased with a talk show devoted to the supernatural even if, as Kitty insists, no one really believes it.
One night, the moment everyone warned about arrives, and a bounty hunter named Cormac arrives to assassinate Kitty. In a gutsy move that made me fall in love with Kitty Norville, she talks Cormac out of killing herâ¦temporarily.
With that threat on hold, Kitty faces her abusive pack leader who insists she must quit the radio show. As she stands up to him, her role in the pack and her self esteem both start to change. A pivotal moment is facing off Carlâs enforcer, who happens to be her best friend TJ Instead of fighting him as a wolf, she appeals to his human nature. This is a often-repeated theme in the series.
But problems keep piling on. Cormac is still a threat, and the vampires are unhappy with Kitty. To add more crazy to the mix, Dr Paul Fleming from the CDC sets his sights on Kitty, claiming to be an expert in paranatural biology, and the police ask Kitty to consult on a murder case. They suspect a rogue werewolf, and she seems to be the resident expert â albeit accidentally. Throw in a little cult action (the Church of the Pure Faith) and the result is non-stop tension and suspense for Kitty and the reader. Kitty spends much of her time talking to people â often on air â so I wouldn't say non-stop action but Carrie Vaughn is excellent at ramping up the drama even when thereâs only dialog.
When things get really bad between Kitty and the werewolf that turned her â Zan â her friend TJ kills him. Kitty calls Cormac for help dealing with that, figuring that he is in her debt for the moment. This is the moment when their relationship starts to change forever. The death of Zan also brings lawyer Ben OâFarrell, Cormacâs cousin, into Kittyâs life.
TJ and Kitty figure out that someone in the pack had set Zan on Kitty and wants her dead. It turns out that the rogue wolf (wanted by police) and the attack by Zan are related. Kitty finds the rogue wolf and discovers he had been made by Meg in an attempt to overthrow Carl. That discovery is the final straw for Kitty. She tries to challenge Meg and ends up facing down Carl. She survives, but at great cost. TJ comes to her rescue and is killed saving her. Kitty is allowed to live, but she is banished from the pack and Carlâs territory.
There are a ton of loose ends by the end of Kitty and the Midnight Hour but when I first read this I was eager for the next book.
Book 1 will always be my favorite, for many reasons. I give it an enthusiastic five stars as an urban fantasy must-read.
First and foremost is Kitty herself. She isn't the typical kick-ass heroine so popular in todayâs urban fantasies. She isn't a cop, a private eye, or a bounty hunter. She is a very ordinary woman who was brutally attacked by a werewolf and didnât have much choice but to join the local werewolf pack. A major theme of the first book is Kittyâs struggle with her werewolf self and finding her place in the pack.
When the story opens, Kitty's place is at the very bottom of the pack, and she is deeply in the closet, not having told even her family that she is a werewolf. Werewolves are not known to the general public.
The rest of the review covers plot points in the book.
Kitty is a DJ at a local radio station, where she runs the midnight hour. One night she gets bored with playing music on request and starts talking on the air and taking calls. She gets a call from an apparent wacko talking about vampires and asks people to call in with anything âweird.â The switchboard lights up in no time, âKitty and the Midnight Hourâ is accidentally created, and the show takes off quickly.
Soon her professional life is the best it has ever been, but her life in the pack is lousy. Carl, the alpha of the pack, thinks itâs his right to bully and control everyone else in the pack. When we first meet him, Kitty is just trying to be a normal human, but Carl won't allow that. He expects sex from anyone he wants in the pack, and that includes Kitty. Carrie Vaughn does an amazing job describing pack behavior â including Kittyâs submissiveness simultaneously from wolf and human points of view. We also meet Carlâs mate and fellow pack-leader Meg, who definitely doesn't like Kitty. Her best friend TJ. â her gay BFF â is her only friend and ally in the pack.
Kittyâs show gets her unwanted attention from the local vampire master, who isn't pleased with a talk show devoted to the supernatural even if, as Kitty insists, no one really believes it.
One night, the moment everyone warned about arrives, and a bounty hunter named Cormac arrives to assassinate Kitty. In a gutsy move that made me fall in love with Kitty Norville, she talks Cormac out of killing herâ¦temporarily.
With that threat on hold, Kitty faces her abusive pack leader who insists she must quit the radio show. As she stands up to him, her role in the pack and her self esteem both start to change. A pivotal moment is facing off Carlâs enforcer, who happens to be her best friend TJ Instead of fighting him as a wolf, she appeals to his human nature. This is a often-repeated theme in the series.
But problems keep piling on. Cormac is still a threat, and the vampires are unhappy with Kitty. To add more crazy to the mix, Dr Paul Fleming from the CDC sets his sights on Kitty, claiming to be an expert in paranatural biology, and the police ask Kitty to consult on a murder case. They suspect a rogue werewolf, and she seems to be the resident expert â albeit accidentally. Throw in a little cult action (the Church of the Pure Faith) and the result is non-stop tension and suspense for Kitty and the reader. Kitty spends much of her time talking to people â often on air â so I wouldn't say non-stop action but Carrie Vaughn is excellent at ramping up the drama even when thereâs only dialog.
When things get really bad between Kitty and the werewolf that turned her â Zan â her friend TJ kills him. Kitty calls Cormac for help dealing with that, figuring that he is in her debt for the moment. This is the moment when their relationship starts to change forever. The death of Zan also brings lawyer Ben OâFarrell, Cormacâs cousin, into Kittyâs life.
TJ and Kitty figure out that someone in the pack had set Zan on Kitty and wants her dead. It turns out that the rogue wolf (wanted by police) and the attack by Zan are related. Kitty finds the rogue wolf and discovers he had been made by Meg in an attempt to overthrow Carl. That discovery is the final straw for Kitty. She tries to challenge Meg and ends up facing down Carl. She survives, but at great cost. TJ comes to her rescue and is killed saving her. Kitty is allowed to live, but she is banished from the pack and Carlâs territory.
There are a ton of loose ends by the end of Kitty and the Midnight Hour but when I first read this I was eager for the next book.
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