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jaceyCarrie Vaughan: Kitty Goes to Washington – Kitty #2
Radio presenter Kitty Norville, outed publicly as a werewolf in ‘Kitty and the Midnight Hour’, is called to Washington to testify before a Senate Committee on werewolves and other supernatural beings. To her dismay she finds that the committee is chaired by antagonistic, right-wing, ultra Christian Senator Duke who is trying to start a witch-hunt. She's already crossed paths with him before and he’s dangerous. She soon realises he's determined to make sure that she won't be called to testify until the full moon (her time of the month and then some) in the hope that her control will slip and that she'll confirm his assertions that werewolves (etc.) are dangerous and need to be controlled.
With her lawyer, Ben, in tow and Cormac the bounty hunter making a welcome reappearance Kitty makes new friends and enemies in the capital, including the vampire queen Alette and her mate Leo, a sexy Brazillian were-jaguar, Luis, a psychic called Jeffrey and Stockton, a pushy reporter who’s out for the main chance. Cult leader Elijah Smith reappears, invulnerable except to groceries; and then there’s Flemming, a scientist who will go to any lengths to make sure the funding isn’t cut for his paranormal biology study. Suddenly Kitty finds that the anonymity of radio is about to give way to being a recognisable TV face.
The problems I had with the dangling plot threads in ‘Kitty and the Midnight Hour’ are not so obvious here – or maybe I’m now in the mindset of reading this as an ongoing soap-opera with ongoing characters and multi-book story arcs. Both the Elijah Smith and the Flemming threads started in the previous book, but were left dangling inconclusively. In this book, however, they’re both wrapped up – which helps the overall satisfaction levels enormously. On the whole I’m liking Kitty and very happy to read on.
Radio presenter Kitty Norville, outed publicly as a werewolf in ‘Kitty and the Midnight Hour’, is called to Washington to testify before a Senate Committee on werewolves and other supernatural beings. To her dismay she finds that the committee is chaired by antagonistic, right-wing, ultra Christian Senator Duke who is trying to start a witch-hunt. She's already crossed paths with him before and he’s dangerous. She soon realises he's determined to make sure that she won't be called to testify until the full moon (her time of the month and then some) in the hope that her control will slip and that she'll confirm his assertions that werewolves (etc.) are dangerous and need to be controlled.
With her lawyer, Ben, in tow and Cormac the bounty hunter making a welcome reappearance Kitty makes new friends and enemies in the capital, including the vampire queen Alette and her mate Leo, a sexy Brazillian were-jaguar, Luis, a psychic called Jeffrey and Stockton, a pushy reporter who’s out for the main chance. Cult leader Elijah Smith reappears, invulnerable except to groceries; and then there’s Flemming, a scientist who will go to any lengths to make sure the funding isn’t cut for his paranormal biology study. Suddenly Kitty finds that the anonymity of radio is about to give way to being a recognisable TV face.
The problems I had with the dangling plot threads in ‘Kitty and the Midnight Hour’ are not so obvious here – or maybe I’m now in the mindset of reading this as an ongoing soap-opera with ongoing characters and multi-book story arcs. Both the Elijah Smith and the Flemming threads started in the previous book, but were left dangling inconclusively. In this book, however, they’re both wrapped up – which helps the overall satisfaction levels enormously. On the whole I’m liking Kitty and very happy to read on.
