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review 2016-09-20 09:02

“Kitty Steals The Show – Kitty Norville #10” by Carrie Vaughn-strong story and new settings

In "Kitty Steals The Show", Kitty accepts an invitation to be the keynote speaker at a scientific conference on the supernatural. The conference is in London which, of course, makes Kitty A Werewolf In London, a line the novel wouldn't have been complete without and which provided me with a soundtrack as I listened to the audiobook.

The book starts with a welcome return to the familiar as we get to listen to more of Kitty's talk show and experience the space she's created where the isolated can feel mainstream. I love Kitty's shows because I like who she is on the show.

I also liked that we saw Kitty with her pack for once. She and Ben are settling into their roles as alphas and starting to enjoy themselves and plan for the future rather than feeling that leadership is a task thrust on them by circumstance.

Moving the action to London provides a new setting and introduces new characters. London, through the eyes of an American in Europe for the first time, is reasonably well drawn. I liked the way Carrie Vaughn picked up on themes in British and European history and politics and used them to shape the supernatural word. The leading British vampires are aristocratic, entitled, and manipulative in a polite, highly cultured and slightly dispassionate way. Their European counterparts are decadent, old-school vampires who keep werewolves as slaves. The British werewolves, it turns out, have not accepted slavery. Nor have they remained in small packs, each with their own territory. Instead they have come together under a single, charismatic but decidedly working class, leader.

We revisit the Long Game and Kitty finds herself up against familiar enemies. There is a strong sense of the gravitational pull from the coming war dragging Kitty into a role she may not be equipped for, has little desire to occupy but is unable to walk away from.

At the end of the book, we return to Kitty's talk show, which she is using as a platform to warn the world of the menace of the Long Game. One of Kitty's listeners asks her to remember why she set up the show: to help those who had nowhere else to go. That's the Kitty who hooked me into this series, not the uber-alpha werewolf leader. That's the Kitty I hope to see more of in the next books.

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review 2016-04-08 00:00

Kitty Steals the Show

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Kitty in London, dealing with international politics and finding more enemies and friends.

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review 2014-04-06 05:41

Kitty Steals the Show by Carrie Vaughn

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Kitty Steals the Show (Kitty Norville #10) - Carrie Vaughn

I really enjoy this series because it's not the typical werewolf series (with an extreme alpha male). What I really like about Kitty are her strengths; her intelligence, curiosity, and ability to talk (about anything). It was nice to reconnect with previous characters (Tyler, Emma, etc) and meet some new ones. Nice, fitting development with Dr Fleming. Good setup for the next book.

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text 2013-12-30 19:23

KOMET'S FAVORITE BOOKS OF 2013 (Fiction & Non-fiction)

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The Georgetown Ladies' Social Club: Power, Passion, and Politics in the Nation's Capital - C. David Heymann

A People's History of the United States (2010 Edition) - Howard Zinn

The Dancing Years - Cynthia Harrod-Eagles

I Told You So: Gore Vidal Talks Politics: Interviews with Jon Wiener - Gore Vidal,Jon Wiener

Nice Work If You Can Get It - Dean Saunders

Behind the Scenes: or, Thirty Years a Slave, and Four Years in the White House - Elizabeth Keckley, William L. Andrews (Introduction)

Here's a cross section of some of the books I read this year that gave me the most pleasure, as well as insight and edification.

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review 2013-09-30 11:59

KITTY COMES TO LONDON

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Kitty receives an invitation to attend the First International Conference on Paranatural Studies in London. What's more: she's been tapped to be the keynote speaker. From the moment, she, her husband Ben, and the redoubtable Cormac arrive in London, where she renews an acquaintance with a young vampire (Emma) she knew in Washington and is introduced to Emma's patron and mentor Ned (the Master Vampire of London, who boasts of having known Shakespeare, Christopher Marlowe, and Winston Churchill), they find themselves caught up in a long, twilight struggle among vampires and werewolves that could erupt into a full-scale war.

Where others might shrink from what may appear hopeless odds, Kitty struggles to stand tall, and together with some of Ned's fellow vampires and a number of werewolves from the UK pack (led by Caleb, a very wily and saavy alpha male), she has some rather hair-raising experiences. There's never a dull moment with this novel, which will always have the reader anxious to know how events unfold. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED.