By Carrie Vaughn.
(Note: some spoiler discussion will be going on below the cut, the followups will be denoted with stars.)
After the events of the last book, Kitty Norville's wanted to take some time off. Go do the Walden Pond thing. Write her memoirs. This isn't quite as good as it sounded, though. The writing isn't going well. She misses doing her show and finds herself stewing and listening to a rival paranormal radio show (and calling in under fake names). And the locals in her new area aren't happy to have a werewolf around, and are leaving animal corpses and barbed-wire crosses around her place to let her know of it.
Things get more interesting in the not-great way when Cormac shows up with his cousin (a.k.a. Kitty's lawyer) Ben. They were just on a hunt for a rogue werewolf, and Ben's been infected with lycanthropy. They also found some other furrish evil creature at the same time, and don't know what it is. Kitty ends up adopting Ben into her pack (of two), and they end up getting closer, much to Cormac's...well, you can't really tell with Cormac, but one could presume he's not that happy about it, and he goes off to track the other creature. This ends up having major consequences, which at least one of the characters, if not more, will have to live with for a long time.* It will be interesting to see what happens with regards to that.
This novel kind of leaves some loose ends** and mysteries going on. I am hoping at least some of this gets followed up on in the next book.
I liked this one, but it's a bit weaker (maybe because of the open-endedness). Plus I missed Kitty doing her show, but I think that's a major point of this novel- you're SUPPOSED to miss her doing the show, because Kitty misses it. Anyway, I'll still be looking out for the next book. I'm giving this one 3 1/2 stars, though.
Spoiler remarks below the cut.
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* Cormac goes to jail for four years, because they are unable to prove that the chick he killed was a skinwalker and not just a nutcase in an animal skin. Harsh consequence, eh?
I am wondering how the author is going to handle this, seeing how fond she is of the character and that's a long time to have him out of the action, even if Kitty visits him in jail (which according to the preview of the next book at the back of this one, she does). I suspect that some kind of Faith-in-jail-on-Buffy/Angel thing will have to go on, because I don't see the author leaving him in jail for the next four books.
** Kitty has been "cursed" by the supernatural baddie, or so she's told. But this book doesn't really follow up on that beyond her original injuries and her being handed some amulets. It seems odd to not mention or resolve that again.
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