Kitty Goes to Washington
Carrie Vaughn
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Kitty Goes to Washington
Carrie Vaughn
Warner
Paperback
360 pages
Maly 2006
rated 4 1/2 of 5 possible stars
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Barely escaping Denver, Colorado with her life on the closing pages of Kitty and the Midnight Hour, Kitty Norville takes to the road.  As Kitty Goes to Washington opens, Kitty is drifting aimlessly around the United States broadcasting her newly syndicated late-night radio show from a different city each week.  When she receives an unexpected call informing her that she has been subpoenaed by a Senate hearing into the Center for the Study of Paranatural Biology, chaired by her Bible-thumping nemesis Senator Duke, Kitty heads for the murky political waters of Washington, DC.

Plunging into a city full of international paranaturals, Kitty finds herself surrounded by unfamiliar -- and scary -- politics and games that seem to be governed by bizarre rules. As she enters the city she is stopped and "offered" the hospitality of the city's vampire mistress. Not sure why she needs a vampire's protection, she is further puzzled by the actions of Dr. Paul Flemming. Just a few weeks ago, he was eager to share information with her; now he keeps her at a disconcerting distance just when she needs the information he is hiding. And meeting a were-jaguar in a club for were-creatures only proves that Kitty must figure out the undercurrents in both the paranatural and political worlds if she wishes to escape with her freedom -- and her life.

Carrie Vaughn maintains a delightful tone in this second Kitty novel. Not quite a paranormal romance nor truly just a fantasy novel, Vaughn’s novels sit somewhere in between. Her writing strength is in creating an alternate reality that looks and sounds like modern-day America, the only difference being that Vampires, Were-Creatures and other creatures “of the night” actually do exist. Kitty deals with issues of identity, loneliness, and career ambitions as any other young professional woman does, with the added difficulty of being without a pack and surviving as a lone werewolf.

Old friends reappear in this second adventure helping to quickly move the action into comfortable territory - Cormac the hit man, Ben the lawyer and Matt, Kitty’s faithful sound-man. Once again Carrie Vaughn has included a “playlist” in the acknowledgements, and she has picked the perfect tunes to accompany Kitty’s new adventure - songs like Pink Floyd’s “Us and Them,” Shriekback’s “Nemesis” and Peter Gabriel’s “Games Without Frontier.” I was inspired to go hunting through my CD’s to put together the mix to listen to while sharing Kitty’s adventure.

Packaged with this second Kitty Norville adventure is the short story “Kitty Meets the Band.” Carrie Vaughn has already signed a contract for books three and four - Kitty and the Wolf Moon’s Curse (Spring 2007) and Kitty and the Silver Bullet (Fall 2007), and this reader for one is eagerly awaiting both.



Originally published on Curled Up With A Good Book at www.curledup.com. © Janelle Martin, 2006

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