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41 of 47 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Free For Now, July 31, 2006
In the first book we met Kitty Norville, late night radio host and werewolf. During the course of the book she managed to break away from her pack and took her radio show on the road. Now she has been moving around and finds herself summoned to Washington to appear before a Senate committee looking into the supernatural and the government's involvement. Kitty takes her show to the nation's capital and things get a little hairy.
First she meets the local vampire in control. While Kitty may be in danger, she cannot help exploring the city. She soon meets some of the local lycanthrope community. Then at the hearings she meets some characters from the first book as well as some of the Senate committee. Between local politics, witch hunts, scientific research, and some very colorful characters things come a head for Kitty and many involved.
BONUS: After the book there is a short story where Kitty does a sow on music. As a guest on the show is the group Plague of Locusts. We have heard of them in the books as they claim their bass guitarist is possessed by a demon. In this story Kitty learns the truth.
I really enjoyed this book. It is rather different from the first as Kitty is not a member of a pack, but she still has to exercise her newfound control as so many others try to control her. The ending was not an action-film ending, but is much more believable and in keeping with the world being revealed. There is also a very short excerpt from the next Kitty novel (yup, there will be more). All in all a very entertaining book with good plotting and characters. Check it out.
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25 of 29 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Kitty Is At It Again!, June 25, 2006
Our favorite werewolf DJ is at it again. This time, Kitty Norville has been summoned to Washington DC to testify before a Senate committee on paranormal biology. While there, she is taken under the wing of the city's vampire mistress, Alette. Kitty fights against Alette's controlling ways while admiring her calm strength. A hunky South American were-jaguar who pants after her, military hit men who want to kidnap her, an evil sidhe who wants to control her, and extreme religious fanatic who wants to kill her make up just a small part of the cast in this intrigue-filled romp through our nation's capitol.
While not as fun or as quick a read as the first book, Kitty and the Midnight Hour, Vaughn's second "Kitty" book is a satisfying chick-lit read. Just don't expect the hero and heroine to ride (run?) off together in a happily-ever-after ending. If you don't mind that, then definitely pick up this sequel. It's a good continuation of the first story - but is also a good stand-alone book.
Oh, and as a bonus, the author has included a short "Kitty" story at the end of the book. A quick, fun read that for all its brevity shows a keen insight into human behavior.
Reviewed by Vicky Burkholder
6/16/2006
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12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Great follow up to "Kitty And The Midnight Hour", March 27, 2007
This book is the follow up to the wonderful "Kitty And The Midnight Hour" featuring a young werewolf who has a midnight talk radio show. In the first book Kitty found herself growing up and eventually had to leave her pack and go on the road when she felt they let her down.
"Kitty Goes To Washington" starts a month after those events when Kitty is called to testify to a senate hearing on werewolves and vampires. She arrives in Washington and spends some time as a tourist, and alongside the usual American monuments and museums she visits a Werewolf bar (where she meets the rather lovely were-jaguar Luis) and the vampire Mistress of the City, Alette, with her sidekick Leo.
However, whilst waiting to be called to testify, Kitty finds herself investigating the Rev Elijah Wood's church, breaking into a US facility with Cormac and interviewing a former Nazi werewolf. And time time for her testimony is becoming dangerously close to the full moon.
As in the former book, this is a really good fun read with some fast pacing, some interesting vignettes into werewolf life, a little love interest and a lot of amusing plot. Kitty is a great character with a winsome naivete but with a streak of iron through her too.
As an English reader I noticed a classic American mistake; Alette and Leo apparently have a "British Accent"; of course there is no such thing - there's English, Welsh, Scottish, Irish and others as well but "British" can't refer overall to one accent. Still I got the message - that they probably seem like your traditional film villain because of that accent. It also became very clear that Carrie Vaughn is a bit of a tourist herself with some very gushing descriptions of Kitty's time looking round Washington.
"Kitty Goes To Washington" doesn't have complete backstory so those who haven't read the first book might not get all the nuances, particularly with regard to why Kitty left her pack. There are more supernatural creatures in this book than the previous but it isn't overloaded with them like some urban fantasies these days.
Carrie Vaughn sticks to all the traditional tropes for this genre - vampires being allergic to garlic, werewolves to silver, etc - but she infuses her own interpretation on what it might be like to be one of these creatures. I liked the way that we see into Kitty's head, we follow her trying to rationalise her situation, to see the good in it and to help others see some possible benefits of their status as different from normal humans. I've made it sound a bit philosophical which it isn't, it's just a fun book with a possible deeper message in there for those who want to look.
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