Product Description

After being exposed on national television while turning wolf, Kitty heads to the mountains of Colorado to pen her memoirs and get some much needed R and R. But this is Kitty, so trouble is never far behind, and instead of Walden Pond, she gets Evil Dead. First someone leaves grotesque animal sacrifices on her front porch to curse her, then werewolf hunter Cormac shows up with an injured Ben O'Farrell, Kitty's lawyer, slung over his shoulder. Two hotties and one Kitty in a single-room cabin - can the situation get more tense? When a wolf-life creature with glowing red eyes starts niffing around the cabin, Kitty wonders if any of them will get out of these woods alive

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #94763 in Books
• Published on: 2007-07-05
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• 336 pages

Review
'I relished this book. Enough excitement, astonishment, pathos and victory to satisfy any reader' - Charlaine Harris

Synopsis
After being exposed on national television while turning wolf, Kitty heads to the mountains of Colorado to pen her memoirs and get some much needed R and R. But this is Kitty, so trouble is never far behind, and instead of Walden Pond, she gets Evil Dead. First someone leaves grotesque animal sacrifices on her front porch to curse her, then werewolf hunter Cormac shows up with an injured Ben O'Farrell, Kitty's lawyer, slung over his shoulder. Two hotties and one Kitty in a single-room cabin - can the situation get more tense? When a wolf-life creature with glowing red eyes starts niffing around the cabin, Kitty wonders if any of them will get out of these woods alive

About the Author
Carrie Vaughn had the nomadic childhood of the typical Air Force brat, with stops in California, Florida, North Dakota, Maryland and Colorado. She holds a Masters in English Literature and collects hobbies - fencing and sewing are currently high on the list.

Customer Reviews

Carries weakest so far
Whilst everyone enjoys a series this for me was Carries, weakest book so far, whilst the characterisations were cracking as usual, I did feel that something was missing and that the ball was dropped a little towards the end through what came across as a pointless chase and rather than proving something for the reader it left me feeling a bit depressed. Whether this was intentional or not I don't know but all I do know as I was a quite upset with it as if it were a rushed ending just to get it in for the deadline. I will continue to read Carries work as I love what she's done and will still eagerly rip the envelope to get the next story to land but with the way this tale ended I'm just hoping that I'll be disappointed. Having spoken to Carrie as well as having heard about the next couple of books I don't think I will be but that niggling doubt, however small, is still there.

A Sanity Saver and a Plain-Old Good Read
Let me start off by prefacing that in an airport, where one is the required two hours early for departure and inherits an additional rascally three-hour delay in said departure, one desperately needs an escape. Five hours literally flew by when I cracked the pages of this book. That, in a nutshell, made it a spectacular read. Engrossing, witty and packed with characters a reader can sink their literary teeth into is the slightly longer version, but gives one an even better idea of all this book has to offer.

Kitty Norville needs a break. Going national about her furry side isn't the only reason. She's got a writing gig now too and a secluded mountain cabin seems the ideal retreat. Having a severe case of writer's block though, Kitty is distracted to say the least...especially when dead animals keep showing up to decorate her front porch. The locals are nice enough, though not particularly keen to have the nation's first werewolf at their doorsteps. Naturally, it seems someone wants her gone. When Cormac, werewolf hunter extraordinaire, shows up with an injured Ben (her lawyer) in tow, it's all Kitty can do to hold down the fort, much less write about it. Witchcraft and evil skin walkers compound the situation and Kitty begins to wonder if any of them will get out of this alive, much less walk the right side of the law.

Having never read the series before, I was prepared to be a little lost. Surprisingly, and pleasantly enough, I was glad to read a book that made sense from its own perspective while still gleaning enough information about the past two books (Kitty and the Midnight hour first, then Kitty Goes to Washington) to want to double back. Kitty is an interesting character, and her special twist, that of the first werewolf to exit the closet, puts a whole new perspective on the werewolf story. Being that the story takes place mainly at the cabin, I was also prepared for the story to get a little stale, but not so. There's plenty of action to keep readers turning the pages. There's a slight romantic edge, and I suspect a carryover from past books with one of the characters, though it's not the main focus of this primarily fantasy minded novel. I'm glad I had this book with me during my stay at the airport. Not only did it save my sanity, but it made me laugh, made me chew my lips in suspense and made me an all out fan of Vaughn's first person writing. Looking forward to the others in the series now.

I did enjoy it...
...but there was just something about this story that weirded me out. We got to know more about the background of the other characters, and Kitty writing a book was entertaining. But I didn't really like the 'darkness' of what the humans created, and Ben seemed to get used to what happened to him a little too easily.

I will read the next one, but just not sure why this didn't hit the same buttons as previously.