Book Review: Kitty and the Midnight Hour, by Carrie Vaughn

A late-night radio DJ comes out of the closet as a werewolf.



Warner Books, 2005, 288 pages

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.

( Wolves don't act like this, really. )

Verdict: If a hardbody with obligatory tramp-stamp on the cover is enough to make you read a vampire/werewolf book, then this one has competent writing and a decent story. I didn't find it to be anything special though, and after gritting my teeth through a bunch of wankery about "alpha" wolves and the heroine taking forever to assert herself (yeah, it was character development, but seeing her start out so weak, she only manages to acquire half a level in bad-ass by the end of the book), I'm not a fan, sorry. The setting isn't interesting or original enough for me to wonder what else is happening in other corners of the world, and that and interesting characters are my main reason for reading anything in the urban fantasy genre.

Book Review: Kitty and the Midnight Hour, by Carrie Vaughn

A late-night radio DJ comes out of the closet as a werewolf.



Warner Books, 2005, 288 pages

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.

( Wolves don't act like this, really. )

Verdict: If a hardbody with obligatory tramp-stamp on the cover is enough to make you read a vampire/werewolf book, then this one has competent writing and a decent story. I didn't find it to be anything special though, and after gritting my teeth through a bunch of wankery about "alpha" wolves and the heroine taking forever to assert herself (yeah, it was character development, but seeing her start out so weak, she only manages to acquire half a level in bad-ass by the end of the book), I'm not a fan, sorry. The setting isn't interesting or original enough for me to wonder what else is happening in other corners of the world, and that and interesting characters are my main reason for reading anything in the urban fantasy genre.