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Dewey Decimal Number: 813.6
EAN num: 9780446616416
ISBN number: 0446616419
Label: Grand Central Publishing
Manufacturer: Grand Central Publishing
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 288
Printing Date: November 01, 2005
Publishing house: Grand Central Publishing
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Description: VAMPIRES. WEREWOLVES. TALK RADIO. Kitty Norville is a midnight-shift DJ for a Denver radio station—and a werewolf in the closet. Sick of lame song requests, she accidentally starts 'The Midnight Hour,' a late-night advice show for the supernaturally disadvantaged. After desperate vampires, werewolves, and witches across the country begin calling in to share their woes, her new show is a raging success. But it’s Kitty who can use some help. With one sexy werewolf-hunter and a few homicidal undead on her tail, Kitty may have bitten off more than she can chew…
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Kitty Norville is the late-night host of a Denver alternative radio station, and with a one-time, joking reference to the supernatural realm, her show becomes a call-in about all things paranormal and an overnight smash. Before she knows it, "[i]The Midnight Hour[/i]" is syndicated, and she's opened the door to her own life as a "closet" werewolf.
Naturally, this kind of attention is hardly limited to her adoring fans, with her Pack and the local vampire Family disliking the attention that her show brings to their world. Her own relationship with her wolf family straining under the combined influences of the show and Pack politics, Kitty finds herself at the center of too much attention. Things are further complicated by the arrival of a werewolf-hunter, Cormac, into her already-complicated life, murders by a rogue, Pack-less werewolf, and an enigmatic faith-healer who was not quite what he seemed.
I highly enjoyed this book. Carrie Vaughn is one of those rare authors whose can start off a novel with highly-defined characters; you really feel like you're just jumping into the lives of believable people, not formulaic characters. Her world-building is exquisite, the side-characters are absolutely fantastic, and the character evolves wonderfully throughout the course of the book. Two thumbs up, and a "well done" to the author.
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I've tried a few different werewolf main character books, and have had mixed feelings. I read this book in one sitting and I am very happy with it. First, what I didn't like. I didn't like that it was fairly obvious who the murderer was from the beginning. Also, I didn't like the main characters submissiveness. Well, knowing who the bad guy was didn't take away from learning more about the characters introduced in the book, and the submissiveness didn't last long. The talk radio part of the plot made me not want to pick up the book, I thought it would be too cheesy. When I ran out of books to read I gave this a try, and the radio part didn't hurt the story at all. In fact, it added humour to the plot and a likability to the main character. Your very first impressions about each character turn out to be right, so don't get too discouraged too quickly if you disagree with some events that happen early on. Stick with it, you'll enjoy it!
After reading 10-15 different paranormal series lately I thought they would start to seem the same. I thought I would feel that they are cookie cutter and all alike, like most reviews say. Yet, that hasn't been my experience. I saw parallels between the Mercy Thompson books and Urban Shaman, but other than that each new story and each new series has been refreshing and promising. This one is no different. Give it a shot, you'll be glad you did!
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Kitty is a talk show hostess in Denver. Even though she has told the audience that she is a werewolf, most are skeptical and it's usually the nuts that just call in. Some are quite humorous, like the ones wanting to know how to find a vampire because they want to be a vampire or at least have the great sex vampires are known for, or how do you tell your husband you are a werewolf, etc. (Questions kind of like Dear Abby would be asked if she were a supernatural being!) The vampire king and the alpha male werewolf from her pack don't like her announcing to the world she is a werewolf (you'd be surprised at how many people believe her without any proof at all). Someone hires a hitman to get rid of her so there is a lot of mystery to the story. Not much sex but a lot of whining at very first because Kitty is a timid werewolf and the lowest member of the pack. Her whining irritated me at very first but soon I saw Kitty as the strong character she was and after that I just pictured her as a maltese instead of a wolf (since I'm used to hearing my maltese whine when she wants something). Kitty doesn't remain low on the pack number list for long though since she eventually settles up with the werewolf who turned her. Not a lot of foul language as in some of these series and the pace is rapid and you are rooting for Kitty all the way through the book. I have started the second book of series and it is getting better all the time. The very first book just has vampires and werewolves but the second one is taking on some more supernatural characters so if you want to read the series, you need to read them in order.
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Always on the hunt for a good urban fantasy, I picked up Kitty based
on a number of recommendations and good reviews (specifically one that
compared this book to vintage Anita Blake) and for the most part, its
pretty good.
Kitty herself is likable, neither too self-deprecating nor too
self-absorbed. The writing is good too. And there aren't any
gratuitous sex scenes that so often plague this genre.
A couple of things bothered me. The werewolf pack dynamic: it was
pretty abusive and unpleasant to read about. Also, a personal pet
peeve of mine is portraying Republicans/Christians as either evil or
legalistic hatemongers. I mean come on already.
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I liked Kitty as a character because I felt she was trying to grow. I felt that her victimness was part of her character because of how she became a werewolf; I just don't like that it took her three years to become more than just a victim. I also didn't like that she was raped (by Bill the human), that her werewolf attacker (Zan) got away with effectively raping her humanity from her/killing her old self, however you want to say it. The pack didn't punish him for attacking a human, and turning her into them against her will. But then, the pack was not exactly about fairness and justice. Carl, the leader, basically used his power to get sex from Kitty, and that's a kind of rape. He was supposed to be protecting her, and he wasn't... he was just victimizing her in another way. Kitty's wolf is so in love/adores the leader so much that she'd do anything to make him happy... but in humans, that translates into making oneself a willing victim to someone else's desires - I almost felt that Kitty was trying to make excuses for Carl using her like that and perhaps any enjoyment she got from his touch (which is because of the wolf in her). (Sometimes part of the shame of being raped is that you may have enjoyed part of it before it turned bad... like enjoying kissing but wanting to go no farther and having someone say you asked for it because you kissed the guy.)
I hated Meg. She was also supposed to be protecting her pack, and she betrayed it in so many ways, and I can't see how Carl could ever let that be. He seemed so controlling and abusive with Kitty, I don't see how he wouldn't be so with Meg. Meg was also a coward, afraid of Kitty. The way Carl was willing to kill Kitty for Meg, and with Meg helping him didn't seem to fit his original image either. So I feel Ms. Vaughn characterized Carl inconsistently.
I hate that a certain someone dies in the end, as he was my favorite character throughout the book. I hate the amount of abuse Kitty has gone through. I hate that she's the submissive wolf in the pack, and that everyone picks on her. I feel like Zan being able to continue to pick on her after she was turned because of him was like him being rewarded for bad behavior. Same with Carl and Meg's actions against her, and Carl's lack of a backbone when standing against Meg (for the most part anyway). The pack was just messed up.
What I did like was that Kitty was a radio host, and that the book is dealing with the uncovering of the paranormal. I liked that her human friends didn't abandon her when she was outted as a werewolf. I like that she isn't as pigheaded as some other women I've read about - she listens to people, and thinks about things. I like that she's trying to learn to stand up for herself. I like that she's not a cold blooded killer trying to convince herself she's not a monster, and whining about it all the while. I like that she doesn't have a harem of men (aka a hisem) following her around, licking her boots, and whining about THAT all the while (not quite a subtle dig at one of my old favorite book series). I liked her compassion.
There were some other things I liked and disliked about the book, but I feel like those were the most important.
I'd check this out of the library, or buy it used. I've gotten a lot more picky about which books I buy, and I'd heard so many people praise this series, I thought it'd be worth it, but now I'm not so sure.
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