Kitty Goes To Washington Book Review

Kitty Goes to Washington is the second book in the Kitty Norville series by Carrie Vaughn. Kitty is a lone wolf that has taken her radio show, The Midnight Hour, on the road. She has no pack and no place to live she travels from city to city broadcasting her supernatural help line. She caters to vampires and werewolves and all sorts of other things that no one believes exist.

In this book Kitty is called to Washington to testify at a committee hearing for supernatural research. As soon as she hits the city limits she is hauled off by the city's head vampire and placed under her protection. She meets a fascinating bunch of were-animals as she explores the city and even starts a romance with a were-panther. Cormack the hired killer of all things that go bump in the night makes an appearance in the book as well.

In this book you start to learn more about the super secret branch of government that studies supernatural creatures and what they plan to do with that knowledge. You also get an front seat viewing of the cult that claimed to cure vampires and werewolves of there afflictions. You also meet a few new interesting characters along the way.

I was bored by the romance in this book it was flat and felt wrong to me. I kept thinking it was just a fling but I suppose the next book will clear that up. I would have liked to see Cormack a little more as well. I was a little disappointed in this book for quite some time.

 I just kept wondering when something exciting would happen. It started slow and I thought the story lines were roughly pulled together but after a while I found I was wrong. I highly enjoyed the book after the action started. The only thing that I really didn't like is you didn't get to see much of Kitty as a wolf and what you did see was not spectacular.

So I am going to give this book 3 out of 5 stars. I liked it but it has a slow start and there could have been much more interesting  action scenes. I would love to read the next book because there were some hints of some great romantic tension to come. I loved the first book because of the interaction between Kitty and her wolf and this book was really lacking in that.

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Tuesday Teaser Kitty Goes to Washington

 Today's Tuesday Teaser comes from page 170 of the book I am reading right now. Kitty Goes to Washington by Carrie Vaughn.
 

Grab your current read and let the book fall open to a random page. Share two sentences somewhere on that page and the title of the book that you’re getting the teaser from. Please avoid spoilers! 

"The two bodyguards put their hands on the chains of the gate and hopped over, leaving the chains rattling. They continued on, right toward us."  

I should have this book finished tonight and will be starting the next Kate Daniels book. If you have a Tuesday Teaser on your website leave a link in the comments.
 

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Kitty and the Midnight Hour by Carrie Vaughn

Kitty and the Midnight Hour
By Carrie Vaughn
Kitty is a DJ at a radio station in Denver who accidentally opens up her phone lines for hurting and misguided supernatural beings. Kitty is also a werewolf who knows more than a little about her callers issues. I absolutely loves her as a human and a DJ but the wolf side of her I hated, at least for more than half the book.

She willingly took the lowly wolf role and allowed even the alpha wolf to use her body like she was a sex toy because that was the way it was her the pack. She spend a lot of time cowering in the presence of other wolves and it made me rather sick.

As the book progresses she grows a backbone which leads me to believe the series will be great. The writing style is great and the book is packed full of action. I especially love the way she changes perspective when Kitty turns wolf. Kitty’s wolf form is in the third person and near the end of the book her wolf is awesome.

After Kitty’s show becomes a great success she starts to deal with contracts to kill her, disorder in her pack and a serial murder. She actually becomes friend with the man hired to kill her and even teams up with some vampires to deal with a cult that is believed to heal supernatural conditions.

I really liked this book despite not liking Kitty’s wolf side the first half of the book. In the end it was obvious that was not going to be the case in the next books. It was also obvious that I was supposed to feel that way but it still made portions of the book hard to read.

I give this book four stars out of five. It could have been better, I was very unsatisfied with her relationship with the leader of the pack. I did love Kitty’s show and how it gave her confidence. The show is what changed her in the end and I think this will be a great series.

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