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Kitty Raises Hell
By Carrie Vaughn
Kitty Norville book 6
Review:
Book six, Kitty Raises Hell, is almost an extension of Kitty and the Dead Man’s Hand. It certainly continues with some threads that were left untied at the end of that book.
It is a great action packed edition to the Kitty sage. Of the first six books, I’d rank them 3,1,6,5,2,4. I put this one just slightly ahead of 5 because it is essentially the continuation of the action started in that book with the stakes up a great deal. Book five is almost the like the first half of the story with book six being the climax and conclusion. If you love the Kitty Norville saga, this will be a favorite.
Recap:
The book opens with Kitty and Rick, the vampire master of Denver, on the lookout for an attack from Farida, a 4,000-year-old vampire that Kitty crossed paths with in Vegas.
In the B story line, we are introduced to Paradox PI, a hit TV show about the paranormal that just happens to be coming to Denver. They are planning to investigate a place called the Flint House which they claim killed a paranormal investigator. Kitty is skeptical but intrigued.
We get to see Kitty in action as the pack leader when she takes her pack of 18 wolves to the mountains to change for the full moon. The wolves are attacked by an unseen entity and Kitty deals with it in full wolf mode, acting on instinct alone. The wolves all survive but the attack is unsettling.
In the moment Kitty least needs it, TJ’s brother shows up looking for answers. TJ had been Kitty’s best friend when we met her in book 1, but he met an untimely end at the hands of their packmaster over Kitty’s rebellion. Kitty fesses up to the entire story to Peter, something she never did with the police or anyone who wasn’t pack. Unfortunately Peter doesn’t take the news well.
Kitty goes with the Paradox PI crew to investigate the haunted house, unfortunately, whatever attacked the pack on the full moon attacks again and this time on camera. One of the crew – Tina – turns out to have a psychic gift that she has been hiding from everyone. She offers to help Kitty with her problem. The rest of the crew is skeptical, despite being on a show dedicated to documenting the paranormal. She attempts to contact the entity attacking Kitty and the results are less than ideal if very spectacular. Kitty’s restaurant where they are having the séance catches fire.
As if Kitty didn’t already have enough problems, a strange vampire shows up and claims to have tracked a demon to Kitty’s doorstep. Neither Rick nor Kitty trust the stranger who all too conveniently seems to know a little more than he should about the current situations. The vampire’s name is Roman and he seems to be older than Rick and certainly up to something. Roman promises to vanquish the demon in exchange for permanent free passage in Denver. Rick refuses gracefully (by claiming he’ll think about it). To Kitty he admits that he is absolutely not thinking about it.
Kitty gets more bad news from Detective Harden – a member of her pack has been killed by fire. Even stranger, he died in the middle of his apartment with nothing else burned . More work of the demon.
Kitty faces the pack after the bad news. They are angry and defiant but ultimately trust Kitty. Unfortunately, she doesn’t have many options. After Rick flat out refuses Roman, she meets the mysterious vampire behind his back. Bad move Kitty!
Roman names his price for Kitty – loyalty. Like Rick, she is too suspicious to agree.
She turns to Jules of the Paradox crew for help. They find an important clue in some of their video footage. A figure in the middle of the flames.
Peter Gurney shows up again to ask the Paradox crew to talk to his brother. Unfortunately for him, Tina claims she cannot perform on command. Contacting the dead isn’t easy – how could it be? Kitty and Peter bond a little over TJ. Peter has finally accepted that TJ was a werewolf and is now dead but is at a loss as to what to do next.
She invites him to join their investigation. He volunteers the insight that they can’t keep fighting the demon and need to go to the source. Since Kitty doesn’t dare return to Vegas, Peter volunteers to go for her.
Tina does a séance to talk to the demon with dramatic results. Unfortunately the demon either doesn’t speak English or refuses to, either way it spouts off with no one understand what it is saying. Then it starts to burn Tina up - who saw that coming?
Kitty brings her out if it with the magic blood goo that seems to protect them. Luckily, they filmed the entire incident. They watch the footage and guess the language is Arabic. Honestly, they are just guessing – no set up for anyone to actually recognize the language. They posit that they might be facing a genie.
Things get worse when random victims start falling prey to the fires. Kitty has an encounter with Roman in which he appears to ward off the fire entity. Appears being the operative word because Kitty isn’t buying it and it sure stinks of a set up.
Roman forces her to change into a wolf and the wolf attacks. Unfortunately, he is powerful enough to compel her in wolf form. Luckily for Kitty, Rick arrives in time to stop Kitty from fulfilling Roman’s command to attack humans.
As she often does, Kitty throws her problem out her audience and as expected she gets a ton of wacky advice and speculation. In the middle of her show Nick the were-tiger from the Vegas crowd calls in. To taunt her? His motive isn’t clear.
A mysterious woman calls in and tells Kitty she is dealing with an ifrit – a type of jinn, and that she must coax it back into containment. Luckily, Kitty has help with a little magic. Using Kitty as bait, they lure the ifrit into a trap then using a spell seal it into a bottle. A little pat and out of the blue but the Kitty stories are not really about these magical details.
With immediate threat thwarted, Roman reveals himself as the power behind Dom (the puppet ruler of Vegas) and the cult of Tiamat. Rick names him Gaius Albinus, a vampire created in the first century and orders him to leave his city.
The ancient vampire then reveals the name he has given himself – what he refers to as his true name- Dux Bellorum.
Kitty then takes the ifrit sealed in the bottle to Vegas. With her magician friend Odysseus Grant, she faces Farida. In a stroke of genius, Grant frees the ifrit who of course turns its rage on Farida who had forced it to work for her. Grant makes use of his magic box and sends them both away along with Farida’s main henchman Nick. The nature of this box is never explained, but it sure comes in handy.
The book wraps up neatly with Kitty and Peter get a message from TJ via Tina – Let it go.
By Carrie Vaughn
Kitty Norville book 6
Review:
Book six, Kitty Raises Hell, is almost an extension of Kitty and the Dead Man’s Hand. It certainly continues with some threads that were left untied at the end of that book.
It is a great action packed edition to the Kitty sage. Of the first six books, I’d rank them 3,1,6,5,2,4. I put this one just slightly ahead of 5 because it is essentially the continuation of the action started in that book with the stakes up a great deal. Book five is almost the like the first half of the story with book six being the climax and conclusion. If you love the Kitty Norville saga, this will be a favorite.
Recap:
The book opens with Kitty and Rick, the vampire master of Denver, on the lookout for an attack from Farida, a 4,000-year-old vampire that Kitty crossed paths with in Vegas.
In the B story line, we are introduced to Paradox PI, a hit TV show about the paranormal that just happens to be coming to Denver. They are planning to investigate a place called the Flint House which they claim killed a paranormal investigator. Kitty is skeptical but intrigued.
We get to see Kitty in action as the pack leader when she takes her pack of 18 wolves to the mountains to change for the full moon. The wolves are attacked by an unseen entity and Kitty deals with it in full wolf mode, acting on instinct alone. The wolves all survive but the attack is unsettling.
In the moment Kitty least needs it, TJ’s brother shows up looking for answers. TJ had been Kitty’s best friend when we met her in book 1, but he met an untimely end at the hands of their packmaster over Kitty’s rebellion. Kitty fesses up to the entire story to Peter, something she never did with the police or anyone who wasn’t pack. Unfortunately Peter doesn’t take the news well.
Kitty goes with the Paradox PI crew to investigate the haunted house, unfortunately, whatever attacked the pack on the full moon attacks again and this time on camera. One of the crew – Tina – turns out to have a psychic gift that she has been hiding from everyone. She offers to help Kitty with her problem. The rest of the crew is skeptical, despite being on a show dedicated to documenting the paranormal. She attempts to contact the entity attacking Kitty and the results are less than ideal if very spectacular. Kitty’s restaurant where they are having the séance catches fire.
As if Kitty didn’t already have enough problems, a strange vampire shows up and claims to have tracked a demon to Kitty’s doorstep. Neither Rick nor Kitty trust the stranger who all too conveniently seems to know a little more than he should about the current situations. The vampire’s name is Roman and he seems to be older than Rick and certainly up to something. Roman promises to vanquish the demon in exchange for permanent free passage in Denver. Rick refuses gracefully (by claiming he’ll think about it). To Kitty he admits that he is absolutely not thinking about it.
Kitty gets more bad news from Detective Harden – a member of her pack has been killed by fire. Even stranger, he died in the middle of his apartment with nothing else burned . More work of the demon.
Kitty faces the pack after the bad news. They are angry and defiant but ultimately trust Kitty. Unfortunately, she doesn’t have many options. After Rick flat out refuses Roman, she meets the mysterious vampire behind his back. Bad move Kitty!
Roman names his price for Kitty – loyalty. Like Rick, she is too suspicious to agree.
She turns to Jules of the Paradox crew for help. They find an important clue in some of their video footage. A figure in the middle of the flames.
Peter Gurney shows up again to ask the Paradox crew to talk to his brother. Unfortunately for him, Tina claims she cannot perform on command. Contacting the dead isn’t easy – how could it be? Kitty and Peter bond a little over TJ. Peter has finally accepted that TJ was a werewolf and is now dead but is at a loss as to what to do next.
She invites him to join their investigation. He volunteers the insight that they can’t keep fighting the demon and need to go to the source. Since Kitty doesn’t dare return to Vegas, Peter volunteers to go for her.
Tina does a séance to talk to the demon with dramatic results. Unfortunately the demon either doesn’t speak English or refuses to, either way it spouts off with no one understand what it is saying. Then it starts to burn Tina up - who saw that coming?
Kitty brings her out if it with the magic blood goo that seems to protect them. Luckily, they filmed the entire incident. They watch the footage and guess the language is Arabic. Honestly, they are just guessing – no set up for anyone to actually recognize the language. They posit that they might be facing a genie.
Things get worse when random victims start falling prey to the fires. Kitty has an encounter with Roman in which he appears to ward off the fire entity. Appears being the operative word because Kitty isn’t buying it and it sure stinks of a set up.
Roman forces her to change into a wolf and the wolf attacks. Unfortunately, he is powerful enough to compel her in wolf form. Luckily for Kitty, Rick arrives in time to stop Kitty from fulfilling Roman’s command to attack humans.
As she often does, Kitty throws her problem out her audience and as expected she gets a ton of wacky advice and speculation. In the middle of her show Nick the were-tiger from the Vegas crowd calls in. To taunt her? His motive isn’t clear.
A mysterious woman calls in and tells Kitty she is dealing with an ifrit – a type of jinn, and that she must coax it back into containment. Luckily, Kitty has help with a little magic. Using Kitty as bait, they lure the ifrit into a trap then using a spell seal it into a bottle. A little pat and out of the blue but the Kitty stories are not really about these magical details.
With immediate threat thwarted, Roman reveals himself as the power behind Dom (the puppet ruler of Vegas) and the cult of Tiamat. Rick names him Gaius Albinus, a vampire created in the first century and orders him to leave his city.
The ancient vampire then reveals the name he has given himself – what he refers to as his true name- Dux Bellorum.
Kitty then takes the ifrit sealed in the bottle to Vegas. With her magician friend Odysseus Grant, she faces Farida. In a stroke of genius, Grant frees the ifrit who of course turns its rage on Farida who had forced it to work for her. Grant makes use of his magic box and sends them both away along with Farida’s main henchman Nick. The nature of this box is never explained, but it sure comes in handy.
The book wraps up neatly with Kitty and Peter get a message from TJ via Tina – Let it go.
Kitty Raises Hell
By Carrie Vaughn
Kitty Norville book 6
Review:
Book six, Kitty Raises Hell, is almost an extension of Kitty and the Dead Man’s Hand. It certainly continues with some threads that were left untied at the end of that book.
It is a great action packed edition to the Kitty sage. Of the first six books, I’d rank them 3,1,6,5,2,4. I put this one just slightly ahead of 5 because it is essentially the continuation of the action started in that book with the stakes up a great deal. Book five is almost the like the first half of the story with book six being the climax and conclusion. If you love the Kitty Norville saga, this will be a favorite.
Recap:
The book opens with Kitty and Rick, the vampire master of Denver, on the lookout for an attack from Farida, a 4,000-year-old vampire that Kitty crossed paths with in Vegas.
In the B story line, we are introduced to Paradox PI, a hit TV show about the paranormal that just happens to be coming to Denver. They are planning to investigate a place called the Flint House which they claim killed a paranormal investigator. Kitty is skeptical but intrigued.
We get to see Kitty in action as the pack leader when she takes her pack of 18 wolves to the mountains to change for the full moon. The wolves are attacked by an unseen entity and Kitty deals with it in full wolf mode, acting on instinct alone. The wolves all survive but the attack is unsettling.
In the moment Kitty least needs it, TJ’s brother shows up looking for answers. TJ had been Kitty’s best friend when we met her in book 1, but he met an untimely end at the hands of their packmaster over Kitty’s rebellion. Kitty fesses up to the entire story to Peter, something she never did with the police or anyone who wasn’t pack. Unfortunately Peter doesn’t take the news well.
Kitty goes with the Paradox PI crew to investigate the haunted house, unfortunately, whatever attacked the pack on the full moon attacks again and this time on camera. One of the crew – Tina – turns out to have a psychic gift that she has been hiding from everyone. She offers to help Kitty with her problem. The rest of the crew is skeptical, despite being on a show dedicated to documenting the paranormal. She attempts to contact the entity attacking Kitty and the results are less than ideal if very spectacular. Kitty’s restaurant where they are having the séance catches fire.
As if Kitty didn’t already have enough problems, a strange vampire shows up and claims to have tracked a demon to Kitty’s doorstep. Neither Rick nor Kitty trust the stranger who all too conveniently seems to know a little more than he should about the current situations. The vampire’s name is Roman and he seems to be older than Rick and certainly up to something. Roman promises to vanquish the demon in exchange for permanent free passage in Denver. Rick refuses gracefully (by claiming he’ll think about it). To Kitty he admits that he is absolutely not thinking about it.
Kitty gets more bad news from Detective Harden – a member of her pack has been killed by fire. Even stranger, he died in the middle of his apartment with nothing else burned . More work of the demon.
Kitty faces the pack after the bad news. They are angry and defiant but ultimately trust Kitty. Unfortunately, she doesn’t have many options. After Rick flat out refuses Roman, she meets the mysterious vampire behind his back. Bad move Kitty!
Roman names his price for Kitty – loyalty. Like Rick, she is too suspicious to agree.
She turns to Jules of the Paradox crew for help. They find an important clue in some of their video footage. A figure in the middle of the flames.
Peter Gurney shows up again to ask the Paradox crew to talk to his brother. Unfortunately for him, Tina claims she cannot perform on command. Contacting the dead isn’t easy – how could it be? Kitty and Peter bond a little over TJ. Peter has finally accepted that TJ was a werewolf and is now dead but is at a loss as to what to do next.
She invites him to join their investigation. He volunteers the insight that they can’t keep fighting the demon and need to go to the source. Since Kitty doesn’t dare return to Vegas, Peter volunteers to go for her.
Tina does a séance to talk to the demon with dramatic results. Unfortunately the demon either doesn’t speak English or refuses to, either way it spouts off with no one understand what it is saying. Then it starts to burn Tina up - who saw that coming?
Kitty brings her out if it with the magic blood goo that seems to protect them. Luckily, they filmed the entire incident. They watch the footage and guess the language is Arabic. Honestly, they are just guessing – no set up for anyone to actually recognize the language. They posit that they might be facing a genie.
Things get worse when random victims start falling prey to the fires. Kitty has an encounter with Roman in which he appears to ward off the fire entity. Appears being the operative word because Kitty isn’t buying it and it sure stinks of a set up.
Roman forces her to change into a wolf and the wolf attacks. Unfortunately, he is powerful enough to compel her in wolf form. Luckily for Kitty, Rick arrives in time to stop Kitty from fulfilling Roman’s command to attack humans.
As she often does, Kitty throws her problem out her audience and as expected she gets a ton of wacky advice and speculation. In the middle of her show Nick the were-tiger from the Vegas crowd calls in. To taunt her? His motive isn’t clear.
A mysterious woman calls in and tells Kitty she is dealing with an ifrit – a type of jinn, and that she must coax it back into containment. Luckily, Kitty has help with a little magic. Using Kitty as bait, they lure the ifrit into a trap then using a spell seal it into a bottle. A little pat and out of the blue but the Kitty stories are not really about these magical details.
With immediate threat thwarted, Roman reveals himself as the power behind Dom (the puppet ruler of Vegas) and the cult of Tiamat. Rick names him Gaius Albinus, a vampire created in the first century and orders him to leave his city.
The ancient vampire then reveals the name he has given himself – what he refers to as his true name- Dux Bellorum.
Kitty then takes the ifrit sealed in the bottle to Vegas. With her magician friend Odysseus Grant, she faces Farida. In a stroke of genius, Grant frees the ifrit who of course turns its rage on Farida who had forced it to work for her. Grant makes use of his magic box and sends them both away along with Farida’s main henchman Nick. The nature of this box is never explained, but it sure comes in handy.
The book wraps up neatly with Kitty and Peter get a message from TJ via Tina – Let it go.
By Carrie Vaughn
Kitty Norville book 6
Review:
Book six, Kitty Raises Hell, is almost an extension of Kitty and the Dead Man’s Hand. It certainly continues with some threads that were left untied at the end of that book.
It is a great action packed edition to the Kitty sage. Of the first six books, I’d rank them 3,1,6,5,2,4. I put this one just slightly ahead of 5 because it is essentially the continuation of the action started in that book with the stakes up a great deal. Book five is almost the like the first half of the story with book six being the climax and conclusion. If you love the Kitty Norville saga, this will be a favorite.
Recap:
The book opens with Kitty and Rick, the vampire master of Denver, on the lookout for an attack from Farida, a 4,000-year-old vampire that Kitty crossed paths with in Vegas.
In the B story line, we are introduced to Paradox PI, a hit TV show about the paranormal that just happens to be coming to Denver. They are planning to investigate a place called the Flint House which they claim killed a paranormal investigator. Kitty is skeptical but intrigued.
We get to see Kitty in action as the pack leader when she takes her pack of 18 wolves to the mountains to change for the full moon. The wolves are attacked by an unseen entity and Kitty deals with it in full wolf mode, acting on instinct alone. The wolves all survive but the attack is unsettling.
In the moment Kitty least needs it, TJ’s brother shows up looking for answers. TJ had been Kitty’s best friend when we met her in book 1, but he met an untimely end at the hands of their packmaster over Kitty’s rebellion. Kitty fesses up to the entire story to Peter, something she never did with the police or anyone who wasn’t pack. Unfortunately Peter doesn’t take the news well.
Kitty goes with the Paradox PI crew to investigate the haunted house, unfortunately, whatever attacked the pack on the full moon attacks again and this time on camera. One of the crew – Tina – turns out to have a psychic gift that she has been hiding from everyone. She offers to help Kitty with her problem. The rest of the crew is skeptical, despite being on a show dedicated to documenting the paranormal. She attempts to contact the entity attacking Kitty and the results are less than ideal if very spectacular. Kitty’s restaurant where they are having the séance catches fire.
As if Kitty didn’t already have enough problems, a strange vampire shows up and claims to have tracked a demon to Kitty’s doorstep. Neither Rick nor Kitty trust the stranger who all too conveniently seems to know a little more than he should about the current situations. The vampire’s name is Roman and he seems to be older than Rick and certainly up to something. Roman promises to vanquish the demon in exchange for permanent free passage in Denver. Rick refuses gracefully (by claiming he’ll think about it). To Kitty he admits that he is absolutely not thinking about it.
Kitty gets more bad news from Detective Harden – a member of her pack has been killed by fire. Even stranger, he died in the middle of his apartment with nothing else burned . More work of the demon.
Kitty faces the pack after the bad news. They are angry and defiant but ultimately trust Kitty. Unfortunately, she doesn’t have many options. After Rick flat out refuses Roman, she meets the mysterious vampire behind his back. Bad move Kitty!
Roman names his price for Kitty – loyalty. Like Rick, she is too suspicious to agree.
She turns to Jules of the Paradox crew for help. They find an important clue in some of their video footage. A figure in the middle of the flames.
Peter Gurney shows up again to ask the Paradox crew to talk to his brother. Unfortunately for him, Tina claims she cannot perform on command. Contacting the dead isn’t easy – how could it be? Kitty and Peter bond a little over TJ. Peter has finally accepted that TJ was a werewolf and is now dead but is at a loss as to what to do next.
She invites him to join their investigation. He volunteers the insight that they can’t keep fighting the demon and need to go to the source. Since Kitty doesn’t dare return to Vegas, Peter volunteers to go for her.
Tina does a séance to talk to the demon with dramatic results. Unfortunately the demon either doesn’t speak English or refuses to, either way it spouts off with no one understand what it is saying. Then it starts to burn Tina up - who saw that coming?
Kitty brings her out if it with the magic blood goo that seems to protect them. Luckily, they filmed the entire incident. They watch the footage and guess the language is Arabic. Honestly, they are just guessing – no set up for anyone to actually recognize the language. They posit that they might be facing a genie.
Things get worse when random victims start falling prey to the fires. Kitty has an encounter with Roman in which he appears to ward off the fire entity. Appears being the operative word because Kitty isn’t buying it and it sure stinks of a set up.
Roman forces her to change into a wolf and the wolf attacks. Unfortunately, he is powerful enough to compel her in wolf form. Luckily for Kitty, Rick arrives in time to stop Kitty from fulfilling Roman’s command to attack humans.
As she often does, Kitty throws her problem out her audience and as expected she gets a ton of wacky advice and speculation. In the middle of her show Nick the were-tiger from the Vegas crowd calls in. To taunt her? His motive isn’t clear.
A mysterious woman calls in and tells Kitty she is dealing with an ifrit – a type of jinn, and that she must coax it back into containment. Luckily, Kitty has help with a little magic. Using Kitty as bait, they lure the ifrit into a trap then using a spell seal it into a bottle. A little pat and out of the blue but the Kitty stories are not really about these magical details.
With immediate threat thwarted, Roman reveals himself as the power behind Dom (the puppet ruler of Vegas) and the cult of Tiamat. Rick names him Gaius Albinus, a vampire created in the first century and orders him to leave his city.
The ancient vampire then reveals the name he has given himself – what he refers to as his true name- Dux Bellorum.
Kitty then takes the ifrit sealed in the bottle to Vegas. With her magician friend Odysseus Grant, she faces Farida. In a stroke of genius, Grant frees the ifrit who of course turns its rage on Farida who had forced it to work for her. Grant makes use of his magic box and sends them both away along with Farida’s main henchman Nick. The nature of this box is never explained, but it sure comes in handy.
The book wraps up neatly with Kitty and Peter get a message from TJ via Tina – Let it go.
Kitty Raises Hell
By Carrie Vaughn
Kitty Norville book 6
Review:
Book six, Kitty Raises Hell, is almost an extension of Kitty and the Dead Man’s Hand. It certainly continues with some threads that were left untied at the end of that book.
It is a great action packed edition to the Kitty sage. Of the first six books, I’d rank them 3,1,6,5,2,4. I put this one just slightly ahead of 5 because it is essentially the continuation of the action started in that book with the stakes up a great deal. Book five is almost the like the first half of the story with book six being the climax and conclusion. If you love the Kitty Norville saga, this will be a favorite.
Recap:
The book opens with Kitty and Rick, the vampire master of Denver, on the lookout for an attack from Farida, a 4,000-year-old vampire that Kitty crossed paths with in Vegas.
In the B story line, we are introduced to Paradox PI, a hit TV show about the paranormal that just happens to be coming to Denver. They are planning to investigate a place called the Flint House which they claim killed a paranormal investigator. Kitty is skeptical but intrigued.
We get to see Kitty in action as the pack leader when she takes her pack of 18 wolves to the mountains to change for the full moon. The wolves are attacked by an unseen entity and Kitty deals with it in full wolf mode, acting on instinct alone. The wolves all survive but the attack is unsettling.
In the moment Kitty least needs it, TJ’s brother shows up looking for answers. TJ had been Kitty’s best friend when we met her in book 1, but he met an untimely end at the hands of their packmaster over Kitty’s rebellion. Kitty fesses up to the entire story to Peter, something she never did with the police or anyone who wasn’t pack. Unfortunately Peter doesn’t take the news well.
Kitty goes with the Paradox PI crew to investigate the haunted house, unfortunately, whatever attacked the pack on the full moon attacks again and this time on camera. One of the crew – Tina – turns out to have a psychic gift that she has been hiding from everyone. She offers to help Kitty with her problem. The rest of the crew is skeptical, despite being on a show dedicated to documenting the paranormal. She attempts to contact the entity attacking Kitty and the results are less than ideal if very spectacular. Kitty’s restaurant where they are having the séance catches fire.
As if Kitty didn’t already have enough problems, a strange vampire shows up and claims to have tracked a demon to Kitty’s doorstep. Neither Rick nor Kitty trust the stranger who all too conveniently seems to know a little more than he should about the current situations. The vampire’s name is Roman and he seems to be older than Rick and certainly up to something. Roman promises to vanquish the demon in exchange for permanent free passage in Denver. Rick refuses gracefully (by claiming he’ll think about it). To Kitty he admits that he is absolutely not thinking about it.
Kitty gets more bad news from Detective Harden – a member of her pack has been killed by fire. Even stranger, he died in the middle of his apartment with nothing else burned . More work of the demon.
Kitty faces the pack after the bad news. They are angry and defiant but ultimately trust Kitty. Unfortunately, she doesn’t have many options. After Rick flat out refuses Roman, she meets the mysterious vampire behind his back. Bad move Kitty!
Roman names his price for Kitty – loyalty. Like Rick, she is too suspicious to agree.
She turns to Jules of the Paradox crew for help. They find an important clue in some of their video footage. A figure in the middle of the flames.
Peter Gurney shows up again to ask the Paradox crew to talk to his brother. Unfortunately for him, Tina claims she cannot perform on command. Contacting the dead isn’t easy – how could it be? Kitty and Peter bond a little over TJ. Peter has finally accepted that TJ was a werewolf and is now dead but is at a loss as to what to do next.
She invites him to join their investigation. He volunteers the insight that they can’t keep fighting the demon and need to go to the source. Since Kitty doesn’t dare return to Vegas, Peter volunteers to go for her.
Tina does a séance to talk to the demon with dramatic results. Unfortunately the demon either doesn’t speak English or refuses to, either way it spouts off with no one understand what it is saying. Then it starts to burn Tina up - who saw that coming?
Kitty brings her out if it with the magic blood goo that seems to protect them. Luckily, they filmed the entire incident. They watch the footage and guess the language is Arabic. Honestly, they are just guessing – no set up for anyone to actually recognize the language. They posit that they might be facing a genie.
Things get worse when random victims start falling prey to the fires. Kitty has an encounter with Roman in which he appears to ward off the fire entity. Appears being the operative word because Kitty isn’t buying it and it sure stinks of a set up.
Roman forces her to change into a wolf and the wolf attacks. Unfortunately, he is powerful enough to compel her in wolf form. Luckily for Kitty, Rick arrives in time to stop Kitty from fulfilling Roman’s command to attack humans.
As she often does, Kitty throws her problem out her audience and as expected she gets a ton of wacky advice and speculation. In the middle of her show Nick the were-tiger from the Vegas crowd calls in. To taunt her? His motive isn’t clear.
A mysterious woman calls in and tells Kitty she is dealing with an ifrit – a type of jinn, and that she must coax it back into containment. Luckily, Kitty has help with a little magic. Using Kitty as bait, they lure the ifrit into a trap then using a spell seal it into a bottle. A little pat and out of the blue but the Kitty stories are not really about these magical details.
With immediate threat thwarted, Roman reveals himself as the power behind Dom (the puppet ruler of Vegas) and the cult of Tiamat. Rick names him Gaius Albinus, a vampire created in the first century and orders him to leave his city.
The ancient vampire then reveals the name he has given himself – what he refers to as his true name- Dux Bellorum.
Kitty then takes the ifrit sealed in the bottle to Vegas. With her magician friend Odysseus Grant, she faces Farida. In a stroke of genius, Grant frees the ifrit who of course turns its rage on Farida who had forced it to work for her. Grant makes use of his magic box and sends them both away along with Farida’s main henchman Nick. The nature of this box is never explained, but it sure comes in handy.
The book wraps up neatly with Kitty and Peter get a message from TJ via Tina – Let it go.
By Carrie Vaughn
Kitty Norville book 6
Review:
Book six, Kitty Raises Hell, is almost an extension of Kitty and the Dead Man’s Hand. It certainly continues with some threads that were left untied at the end of that book.
It is a great action packed edition to the Kitty sage. Of the first six books, I’d rank them 3,1,6,5,2,4. I put this one just slightly ahead of 5 because it is essentially the continuation of the action started in that book with the stakes up a great deal. Book five is almost the like the first half of the story with book six being the climax and conclusion. If you love the Kitty Norville saga, this will be a favorite.
Recap:
The book opens with Kitty and Rick, the vampire master of Denver, on the lookout for an attack from Farida, a 4,000-year-old vampire that Kitty crossed paths with in Vegas.
In the B story line, we are introduced to Paradox PI, a hit TV show about the paranormal that just happens to be coming to Denver. They are planning to investigate a place called the Flint House which they claim killed a paranormal investigator. Kitty is skeptical but intrigued.
We get to see Kitty in action as the pack leader when she takes her pack of 18 wolves to the mountains to change for the full moon. The wolves are attacked by an unseen entity and Kitty deals with it in full wolf mode, acting on instinct alone. The wolves all survive but the attack is unsettling.
In the moment Kitty least needs it, TJ’s brother shows up looking for answers. TJ had been Kitty’s best friend when we met her in book 1, but he met an untimely end at the hands of their packmaster over Kitty’s rebellion. Kitty fesses up to the entire story to Peter, something she never did with the police or anyone who wasn’t pack. Unfortunately Peter doesn’t take the news well.
Kitty goes with the Paradox PI crew to investigate the haunted house, unfortunately, whatever attacked the pack on the full moon attacks again and this time on camera. One of the crew – Tina – turns out to have a psychic gift that she has been hiding from everyone. She offers to help Kitty with her problem. The rest of the crew is skeptical, despite being on a show dedicated to documenting the paranormal. She attempts to contact the entity attacking Kitty and the results are less than ideal if very spectacular. Kitty’s restaurant where they are having the séance catches fire.
As if Kitty didn’t already have enough problems, a strange vampire shows up and claims to have tracked a demon to Kitty’s doorstep. Neither Rick nor Kitty trust the stranger who all too conveniently seems to know a little more than he should about the current situations. The vampire’s name is Roman and he seems to be older than Rick and certainly up to something. Roman promises to vanquish the demon in exchange for permanent free passage in Denver. Rick refuses gracefully (by claiming he’ll think about it). To Kitty he admits that he is absolutely not thinking about it.
Kitty gets more bad news from Detective Harden – a member of her pack has been killed by fire. Even stranger, he died in the middle of his apartment with nothing else burned . More work of the demon.
Kitty faces the pack after the bad news. They are angry and defiant but ultimately trust Kitty. Unfortunately, she doesn’t have many options. After Rick flat out refuses Roman, she meets the mysterious vampire behind his back. Bad move Kitty!
Roman names his price for Kitty – loyalty. Like Rick, she is too suspicious to agree.
She turns to Jules of the Paradox crew for help. They find an important clue in some of their video footage. A figure in the middle of the flames.
Peter Gurney shows up again to ask the Paradox crew to talk to his brother. Unfortunately for him, Tina claims she cannot perform on command. Contacting the dead isn’t easy – how could it be? Kitty and Peter bond a little over TJ. Peter has finally accepted that TJ was a werewolf and is now dead but is at a loss as to what to do next.
She invites him to join their investigation. He volunteers the insight that they can’t keep fighting the demon and need to go to the source. Since Kitty doesn’t dare return to Vegas, Peter volunteers to go for her.
Tina does a séance to talk to the demon with dramatic results. Unfortunately the demon either doesn’t speak English or refuses to, either way it spouts off with no one understand what it is saying. Then it starts to burn Tina up - who saw that coming?
Kitty brings her out if it with the magic blood goo that seems to protect them. Luckily, they filmed the entire incident. They watch the footage and guess the language is Arabic. Honestly, they are just guessing – no set up for anyone to actually recognize the language. They posit that they might be facing a genie.
Things get worse when random victims start falling prey to the fires. Kitty has an encounter with Roman in which he appears to ward off the fire entity. Appears being the operative word because Kitty isn’t buying it and it sure stinks of a set up.
Roman forces her to change into a wolf and the wolf attacks. Unfortunately, he is powerful enough to compel her in wolf form. Luckily for Kitty, Rick arrives in time to stop Kitty from fulfilling Roman’s command to attack humans.
As she often does, Kitty throws her problem out her audience and as expected she gets a ton of wacky advice and speculation. In the middle of her show Nick the were-tiger from the Vegas crowd calls in. To taunt her? His motive isn’t clear.
A mysterious woman calls in and tells Kitty she is dealing with an ifrit – a type of jinn, and that she must coax it back into containment. Luckily, Kitty has help with a little magic. Using Kitty as bait, they lure the ifrit into a trap then using a spell seal it into a bottle. A little pat and out of the blue but the Kitty stories are not really about these magical details.
With immediate threat thwarted, Roman reveals himself as the power behind Dom (the puppet ruler of Vegas) and the cult of Tiamat. Rick names him Gaius Albinus, a vampire created in the first century and orders him to leave his city.
The ancient vampire then reveals the name he has given himself – what he refers to as his true name- Dux Bellorum.
Kitty then takes the ifrit sealed in the bottle to Vegas. With her magician friend Odysseus Grant, she faces Farida. In a stroke of genius, Grant frees the ifrit who of course turns its rage on Farida who had forced it to work for her. Grant makes use of his magic box and sends them both away along with Farida’s main henchman Nick. The nature of this box is never explained, but it sure comes in handy.
The book wraps up neatly with Kitty and Peter get a message from TJ via Tina – Let it go.
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