Kitty Goes to War (Kitty Norville Book 8)
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Kitty Goes to War (Kitty Norville #8)
by Carrie Vaughn
The eighth outing in the Kitty Norville saga breathes some life into the series that sagged a little for me with book seven.
Iâd rank them 3 (5 stars), 1 ( 5 stars), 8 (4 stars), 6 (4 stars), 5 (4 stars), 7 (3 stars), 2 (4 stars), 4 (3 stars), putting Kitty Goes to War among my favorites in the series.
The title refers to war on two fronts, not the least of which is a pack of werewolf soldiers deliberately (sort of) created by the military and now out of control. When Kitty is asked to help, you know she canât turn her back on them.
The book opens (as they often do) with Kitty doing her show and fielding weird callers. This episode is strangely about Speedy Mart and some correlation with supernatural occurrences there. She is sued for libel by the end of the first chapter. Good one Kitty! You know you are on to something when they sue you.
Cormac, released on parole, renews his relationship with Kitty and Ben and they hire him to do some PI work investigating Harold Franklin the CEO of Speedy Mart. As if dealing with one problem isnât enough, Kitty is contacted byDr Elizabeth Shumacher from the Center for Supernatural Studies. She asks for Kitties help but is unwilling to tell her anything over the phone beyond âIt is a werewolf problem.â Kitty canât refuse.
The problem turns out to be a project involving werewolf soldiers. Even though officially there was no such thing, a soldier who was a stable werewolf was recruited. Captain Gordon then created his own squad of werewolves. The squad was a huge success until Gordon, their alpha was killed. He had chosen them carefully, but he apparently didnât think ahead to leave a clear line of succession. With two of the remaining pack dead as a results of a fight for leadership, the military finally caught on and put them in custody, unfortunately, they call Kitty in because the rogue team has escaped. They pose a danger to the civilian population and to Kittyâs pack.
Kitty quickly puts together a plan to intercept the rogues with the help of one of her pack (Becky) and Cormac. Her first plan is too of course in true Kitty fashion to talk to them, but the military is ready with traps and tranks if that doesnât work. Though she does here best to use reason, all she can do is distract them long enough for her back up to shoot them up with the tranquilizers. As the the rogues (three of them) are taken away, Kitty promises to come talk to them as human when they wake up. She and Cormac argue over the value of that plan. He is all for just putting silver bullets into them. It is an on going philosophy disagreement that defines Kitty as who she is in this series. She isnât willing to give up on the chance there is some humanity left in the soldiers. As an aside, it is a good analogy to the problem of sending men to war in general. We worship them as heroes in the abstract but they come back changes and are often thrown away by society.
As promised, Kitty goes to see three prisoners. They are hard to talk to, but Kitty gives them the grim truth - she is the only one who still has any hope for them. She is their only advocate and they are otherwise facing permanent incarceration or death. The alpha (Vanderman) seems to far gone, and when one of the other men answer Kitty he attacks. On an interesting note: Vandermanâs answer to what he want is to go back to Afghanistan. An answer that baffles Kitty but is ofter all too common among war veterans with PTSD who canât deal with civilian life.
Her advice is to separate to the two submissive wolves from Vanderman who seems to far gone to save. She offers to try to integrate them into a stable pack. Smart plan that just might work.
With one crisis under control, of course there has to be another in the works. Harold Franklin, CEO of Speedy Mart shows up at her door. His threatening manner combined with the death of one of her callers raises Kittyâs hackles.
The next time Kitty visits the werewolves, she only sees the two deemed âsalvageableâ - the alpha removed and presumably beyond all help. She thinks she can still help so she turns to Rick, vampire master of the city. He knows of a pack that takes in werewolves, but doesnât think theyâll take in the rogues. Kitty of course doesnât give up on them.
While working with the werewolves, Kitty still has to deal with the Harold Franklin herald situation though it isnât really clear at all what that situation actually is. Kitty, Ben, and Cormac go on a stakeout and Carrie Vaughn reminds me why I love this trio and how much Iâm missed it while Cormac was in prison. We also see t he first glimpse that something is different about Cormac. He declares that Harold Franklin is a wizard without any evidence that Kitty or Ben can see but they trust Cormacâs judgement.
Kitty takes the two rogue werewolves for an outing in Denver, introducing them to some of her pack. The session is tense for everyone but Kitty proclaims it a success with no incidents.
The situation with Harold Franklin is at a slow burn as Cormac continues to investigate and Kitty thinks he is acting a little strange (strange compared to how he was before prison).
As the full moon approaches, Kitty promises the tow werewolf soldiers that they can come run with her pack, but she also warns them to behave because they wonât get another chance if things go wrong. Unfortunately after a perfect hunt and run, Kitty wakes up to find one of the new wolves (Waters) has fled. Unfortunately by the time Kitty, Ben, and Tyler catch up to him, he has already killed in an attempt to rescue his Alpha. Both Vanderman and Waters end up dead.
With the A story wrapped up (mostly) Kitty must tackle a weather wizard (Harold Franklin) who is whipping up a supernatural blizzard over Denver. Turns out Cormac has a magical counter spell that just needs Kitty and her wolves to mark symbols all over Denver and keep the wizard distracted as they do so. Furious over being thwarted, Franklin has a magical showdown with Cormac is beaten (throughly!). Which bring to front the big questions - when and how the hell did Cormac become a wizard?
The answer is as bizarre and brilliant as it is creepy. Cormac is now sharing his body with a powerful sorcerous, Amelia Parker, who was hanged 100 years earlier.
After some diplomatic queries, Kitty gets Tyler integrated into the Seattle pack of werewolves.
by Carrie Vaughn
The eighth outing in the Kitty Norville saga breathes some life into the series that sagged a little for me with book seven.
Iâd rank them 3 (5 stars), 1 ( 5 stars), 8 (4 stars), 6 (4 stars), 5 (4 stars), 7 (3 stars), 2 (4 stars), 4 (3 stars), putting Kitty Goes to War among my favorites in the series.
The title refers to war on two fronts, not the least of which is a pack of werewolf soldiers deliberately (sort of) created by the military and now out of control. When Kitty is asked to help, you know she canât turn her back on them.
The book opens (as they often do) with Kitty doing her show and fielding weird callers. This episode is strangely about Speedy Mart and some correlation with supernatural occurrences there. She is sued for libel by the end of the first chapter. Good one Kitty! You know you are on to something when they sue you.
Cormac, released on parole, renews his relationship with Kitty and Ben and they hire him to do some PI work investigating Harold Franklin the CEO of Speedy Mart. As if dealing with one problem isnât enough, Kitty is contacted byDr Elizabeth Shumacher from the Center for Supernatural Studies. She asks for Kitties help but is unwilling to tell her anything over the phone beyond âIt is a werewolf problem.â Kitty canât refuse.
The problem turns out to be a project involving werewolf soldiers. Even though officially there was no such thing, a soldier who was a stable werewolf was recruited. Captain Gordon then created his own squad of werewolves. The squad was a huge success until Gordon, their alpha was killed. He had chosen them carefully, but he apparently didnât think ahead to leave a clear line of succession. With two of the remaining pack dead as a results of a fight for leadership, the military finally caught on and put them in custody, unfortunately, they call Kitty in because the rogue team has escaped. They pose a danger to the civilian population and to Kittyâs pack.
Kitty quickly puts together a plan to intercept the rogues with the help of one of her pack (Becky) and Cormac. Her first plan is too of course in true Kitty fashion to talk to them, but the military is ready with traps and tranks if that doesnât work. Though she does here best to use reason, all she can do is distract them long enough for her back up to shoot them up with the tranquilizers. As the the rogues (three of them) are taken away, Kitty promises to come talk to them as human when they wake up. She and Cormac argue over the value of that plan. He is all for just putting silver bullets into them. It is an on going philosophy disagreement that defines Kitty as who she is in this series. She isnât willing to give up on the chance there is some humanity left in the soldiers. As an aside, it is a good analogy to the problem of sending men to war in general. We worship them as heroes in the abstract but they come back changes and are often thrown away by society.
As promised, Kitty goes to see three prisoners. They are hard to talk to, but Kitty gives them the grim truth - she is the only one who still has any hope for them. She is their only advocate and they are otherwise facing permanent incarceration or death. The alpha (Vanderman) seems to far gone, and when one of the other men answer Kitty he attacks. On an interesting note: Vandermanâs answer to what he want is to go back to Afghanistan. An answer that baffles Kitty but is ofter all too common among war veterans with PTSD who canât deal with civilian life.
Her advice is to separate to the two submissive wolves from Vanderman who seems to far gone to save. She offers to try to integrate them into a stable pack. Smart plan that just might work.
With one crisis under control, of course there has to be another in the works. Harold Franklin, CEO of Speedy Mart shows up at her door. His threatening manner combined with the death of one of her callers raises Kittyâs hackles.
The next time Kitty visits the werewolves, she only sees the two deemed âsalvageableâ - the alpha removed and presumably beyond all help. She thinks she can still help so she turns to Rick, vampire master of the city. He knows of a pack that takes in werewolves, but doesnât think theyâll take in the rogues. Kitty of course doesnât give up on them.
While working with the werewolves, Kitty still has to deal with the Harold Franklin herald situation though it isnât really clear at all what that situation actually is. Kitty, Ben, and Cormac go on a stakeout and Carrie Vaughn reminds me why I love this trio and how much Iâm missed it while Cormac was in prison. We also see t he first glimpse that something is different about Cormac. He declares that Harold Franklin is a wizard without any evidence that Kitty or Ben can see but they trust Cormacâs judgement.
Kitty takes the two rogue werewolves for an outing in Denver, introducing them to some of her pack. The session is tense for everyone but Kitty proclaims it a success with no incidents.
The situation with Harold Franklin is at a slow burn as Cormac continues to investigate and Kitty thinks he is acting a little strange (strange compared to how he was before prison).
As the full moon approaches, Kitty promises the tow werewolf soldiers that they can come run with her pack, but she also warns them to behave because they wonât get another chance if things go wrong. Unfortunately after a perfect hunt and run, Kitty wakes up to find one of the new wolves (Waters) has fled. Unfortunately by the time Kitty, Ben, and Tyler catch up to him, he has already killed in an attempt to rescue his Alpha. Both Vanderman and Waters end up dead.
With the A story wrapped up (mostly) Kitty must tackle a weather wizard (Harold Franklin) who is whipping up a supernatural blizzard over Denver. Turns out Cormac has a magical counter spell that just needs Kitty and her wolves to mark symbols all over Denver and keep the wizard distracted as they do so. Furious over being thwarted, Franklin has a magical showdown with Cormac is beaten (throughly!). Which bring to front the big questions - when and how the hell did Cormac become a wizard?
The answer is as bizarre and brilliant as it is creepy. Cormac is now sharing his body with a powerful sorcerous, Amelia Parker, who was hanged 100 years earlier.
After some diplomatic queries, Kitty gets Tyler integrated into the Seattle pack of werewolves.
Kitty Goes to War (Kitty Norville #8)
by Carrie Vaughn
The eighth outing in the Kitty Norville saga breathes some life into the series that sagged a little for me with book seven.
Iâd rank them 3 (5 stars), 1 ( 5 stars), 8 (4 stars), 6 (4 stars), 5 (4 stars), 7 (3 stars), 2 (4 stars), 4 (3 stars), putting Kitty Goes to War among my favorites in the series.
The title refers to war on two fronts, not the least of which is a pack of werewolf soldiers deliberately (sort of) created by the military and now out of control. When Kitty is asked to help, you know she canât turn her back on them.
The book opens (as they often do) with Kitty doing her show and fielding weird callers. This episode is strangely about Speedy Mart and some correlation with supernatural occurrences there. She is sued for libel by the end of the first chapter. Good one Kitty! You know you are on to something when they sue you.
Cormac, released on parole, renews his relationship with Kitty and Ben and they hire him to do some PI work investigating Harold Franklin the CEO of Speedy Mart. As if dealing with one problem isnât enough, Kitty is contacted byDr Elizabeth Shumacher from the Center for Supernatural Studies. She asks for Kitties help but is unwilling to tell her anything over the phone beyond âIt is a werewolf problem.â Kitty canât refuse.
The problem turns out to be a project involving werewolf soldiers. Even though officially there was no such thing, a soldier who was a stable werewolf was recruited. Captain Gordon then created his own squad of werewolves. The squad was a huge success until Gordon, their alpha was killed. He had chosen them carefully, but he apparently didnât think ahead to leave a clear line of succession. With two of the remaining pack dead as a results of a fight for leadership, the military finally caught on and put them in custody, unfortunately, they call Kitty in because the rogue team has escaped. They pose a danger to the civilian population and to Kittyâs pack.
Kitty quickly puts together a plan to intercept the rogues with the help of one of her pack (Becky) and Cormac. Her first plan is too of course in true Kitty fashion to talk to them, but the military is ready with traps and tranks if that doesnât work. Though she does here best to use reason, all she can do is distract them long enough for her back up to shoot them up with the tranquilizers. As the the rogues (three of them) are taken away, Kitty promises to come talk to them as human when they wake up. She and Cormac argue over the value of that plan. He is all for just putting silver bullets into them. It is an on going philosophy disagreement that defines Kitty as who she is in this series. She isnât willing to give up on the chance there is some humanity left in the soldiers. As an aside, it is a good analogy to the problem of sending men to war in general. We worship them as heroes in the abstract but they come back changes and are often thrown away by society.
As promised, Kitty goes to see three prisoners. They are hard to talk to, but Kitty gives them the grim truth - she is the only one who still has any hope for them. She is their only advocate and they are otherwise facing permanent incarceration or death. The alpha (Vanderman) seems to far gone, and when one of the other men answer Kitty he attacks. On an interesting note: Vandermanâs answer to what he want is to go back to Afghanistan. An answer that baffles Kitty but is ofter all too common among war veterans with PTSD who canât deal with civilian life.
Her advice is to separate to the two submissive wolves from Vanderman who seems to far gone to save. She offers to try to integrate them into a stable pack. Smart plan that just might work.
With one crisis under control, of course there has to be another in the works. Harold Franklin, CEO of Speedy Mart shows up at her door. His threatening manner combined with the death of one of her callers raises Kittyâs hackles.
The next time Kitty visits the werewolves, she only sees the two deemed âsalvageableâ - the alpha removed and presumably beyond all help. She thinks she can still help so she turns to Rick, vampire master of the city. He knows of a pack that takes in werewolves, but doesnât think theyâll take in the rogues. Kitty of course doesnât give up on them.
While working with the werewolves, Kitty still has to deal with the Harold Franklin herald situation though it isnât really clear at all what that situation actually is. Kitty, Ben, and Cormac go on a stakeout and Carrie Vaughn reminds me why I love this trio and how much Iâm missed it while Cormac was in prison. We also see t he first glimpse that something is different about Cormac. He declares that Harold Franklin is a wizard without any evidence that Kitty or Ben can see but they trust Cormacâs judgement.
Kitty takes the two rogue werewolves for an outing in Denver, introducing them to some of her pack. The session is tense for everyone but Kitty proclaims it a success with no incidents.
The situation with Harold Franklin is at a slow burn as Cormac continues to investigate and Kitty thinks he is acting a little strange (strange compared to how he was before prison).
As the full moon approaches, Kitty promises the tow werewolf soldiers that they can come run with her pack, but she also warns them to behave because they wonât get another chance if things go wrong. Unfortunately after a perfect hunt and run, Kitty wakes up to find one of the new wolves (Waters) has fled. Unfortunately by the time Kitty, Ben, and Tyler catch up to him, he has already killed in an attempt to rescue his Alpha. Both Vanderman and Waters end up dead.
With the A story wrapped up (mostly) Kitty must tackle a weather wizard (Harold Franklin) who is whipping up a supernatural blizzard over Denver. Turns out Cormac has a magical counter spell that just needs Kitty and her wolves to mark symbols all over Denver and keep the wizard distracted as they do so. Furious over being thwarted, Franklin has a magical showdown with Cormac is beaten (throughly!). Which bring to front the big questions - when and how the hell did Cormac become a wizard?
The answer is as bizarre and brilliant as it is creepy. Cormac is now sharing his body with a powerful sorcerous, Amelia Parker, who was hanged 100 years earlier.
After some diplomatic queries, Kitty gets Tyler integrated into the Seattle pack of werewolves.
by Carrie Vaughn
The eighth outing in the Kitty Norville saga breathes some life into the series that sagged a little for me with book seven.
Iâd rank them 3 (5 stars), 1 ( 5 stars), 8 (4 stars), 6 (4 stars), 5 (4 stars), 7 (3 stars), 2 (4 stars), 4 (3 stars), putting Kitty Goes to War among my favorites in the series.
The title refers to war on two fronts, not the least of which is a pack of werewolf soldiers deliberately (sort of) created by the military and now out of control. When Kitty is asked to help, you know she canât turn her back on them.
The book opens (as they often do) with Kitty doing her show and fielding weird callers. This episode is strangely about Speedy Mart and some correlation with supernatural occurrences there. She is sued for libel by the end of the first chapter. Good one Kitty! You know you are on to something when they sue you.
Cormac, released on parole, renews his relationship with Kitty and Ben and they hire him to do some PI work investigating Harold Franklin the CEO of Speedy Mart. As if dealing with one problem isnât enough, Kitty is contacted byDr Elizabeth Shumacher from the Center for Supernatural Studies. She asks for Kitties help but is unwilling to tell her anything over the phone beyond âIt is a werewolf problem.â Kitty canât refuse.
The problem turns out to be a project involving werewolf soldiers. Even though officially there was no such thing, a soldier who was a stable werewolf was recruited. Captain Gordon then created his own squad of werewolves. The squad was a huge success until Gordon, their alpha was killed. He had chosen them carefully, but he apparently didnât think ahead to leave a clear line of succession. With two of the remaining pack dead as a results of a fight for leadership, the military finally caught on and put them in custody, unfortunately, they call Kitty in because the rogue team has escaped. They pose a danger to the civilian population and to Kittyâs pack.
Kitty quickly puts together a plan to intercept the rogues with the help of one of her pack (Becky) and Cormac. Her first plan is too of course in true Kitty fashion to talk to them, but the military is ready with traps and tranks if that doesnât work. Though she does here best to use reason, all she can do is distract them long enough for her back up to shoot them up with the tranquilizers. As the the rogues (three of them) are taken away, Kitty promises to come talk to them as human when they wake up. She and Cormac argue over the value of that plan. He is all for just putting silver bullets into them. It is an on going philosophy disagreement that defines Kitty as who she is in this series. She isnât willing to give up on the chance there is some humanity left in the soldiers. As an aside, it is a good analogy to the problem of sending men to war in general. We worship them as heroes in the abstract but they come back changes and are often thrown away by society.
As promised, Kitty goes to see three prisoners. They are hard to talk to, but Kitty gives them the grim truth - she is the only one who still has any hope for them. She is their only advocate and they are otherwise facing permanent incarceration or death. The alpha (Vanderman) seems to far gone, and when one of the other men answer Kitty he attacks. On an interesting note: Vandermanâs answer to what he want is to go back to Afghanistan. An answer that baffles Kitty but is ofter all too common among war veterans with PTSD who canât deal with civilian life.
Her advice is to separate to the two submissive wolves from Vanderman who seems to far gone to save. She offers to try to integrate them into a stable pack. Smart plan that just might work.
With one crisis under control, of course there has to be another in the works. Harold Franklin, CEO of Speedy Mart shows up at her door. His threatening manner combined with the death of one of her callers raises Kittyâs hackles.
The next time Kitty visits the werewolves, she only sees the two deemed âsalvageableâ - the alpha removed and presumably beyond all help. She thinks she can still help so she turns to Rick, vampire master of the city. He knows of a pack that takes in werewolves, but doesnât think theyâll take in the rogues. Kitty of course doesnât give up on them.
While working with the werewolves, Kitty still has to deal with the Harold Franklin herald situation though it isnât really clear at all what that situation actually is. Kitty, Ben, and Cormac go on a stakeout and Carrie Vaughn reminds me why I love this trio and how much Iâm missed it while Cormac was in prison. We also see t he first glimpse that something is different about Cormac. He declares that Harold Franklin is a wizard without any evidence that Kitty or Ben can see but they trust Cormacâs judgement.
Kitty takes the two rogue werewolves for an outing in Denver, introducing them to some of her pack. The session is tense for everyone but Kitty proclaims it a success with no incidents.
The situation with Harold Franklin is at a slow burn as Cormac continues to investigate and Kitty thinks he is acting a little strange (strange compared to how he was before prison).
As the full moon approaches, Kitty promises the tow werewolf soldiers that they can come run with her pack, but she also warns them to behave because they wonât get another chance if things go wrong. Unfortunately after a perfect hunt and run, Kitty wakes up to find one of the new wolves (Waters) has fled. Unfortunately by the time Kitty, Ben, and Tyler catch up to him, he has already killed in an attempt to rescue his Alpha. Both Vanderman and Waters end up dead.
With the A story wrapped up (mostly) Kitty must tackle a weather wizard (Harold Franklin) who is whipping up a supernatural blizzard over Denver. Turns out Cormac has a magical counter spell that just needs Kitty and her wolves to mark symbols all over Denver and keep the wizard distracted as they do so. Furious over being thwarted, Franklin has a magical showdown with Cormac is beaten (throughly!). Which bring to front the big questions - when and how the hell did Cormac become a wizard?
The answer is as bizarre and brilliant as it is creepy. Cormac is now sharing his body with a powerful sorcerous, Amelia Parker, who was hanged 100 years earlier.
After some diplomatic queries, Kitty gets Tyler integrated into the Seattle pack of werewolves.
Kitty Goes to War (Kitty Norville #8)
by Carrie Vaughn
The eighth outing in the Kitty Norville saga breathes some life into the series that sagged a little for me with book seven.
Iâd rank them 3 (5 stars), 1 ( 5 stars), 8 (4 stars), 6 (4 stars), 5 (4 stars), 7 (3 stars), 2 (4 stars), 4 (3 stars), putting Kitty Goes to War among my favorites in the series.
The title refers to war on two fronts, not the least of which is a pack of werewolf soldiers deliberately (sort of) created by the military and now out of control. When Kitty is asked to help, you know she canât turn her back on them.
The book opens (as they often do) with Kitty doing her show and fielding weird callers. This episode is strangely about Speedy Mart and some correlation with supernatural occurrences there. She is sued for libel by the end of the first chapter. Good one Kitty! You know you are on to something when they sue you.
Cormac, released on parole, renews his relationship with Kitty and Ben and they hire him to do some PI work investigating Harold Franklin the CEO of Speedy Mart. As if dealing with one problem isnât enough, Kitty is contacted byDr Elizabeth Shumacher from the Center for Supernatural Studies. She asks for Kitties help but is unwilling to tell her anything over the phone beyond âIt is a werewolf problem.â Kitty canât refuse.
The problem turns out to be a project involving werewolf soldiers. Even though officially there was no such thing, a soldier who was a stable werewolf was recruited. Captain Gordon then created his own squad of werewolves. The squad was a huge success until Gordon, their alpha was killed. He had chosen them carefully, but he apparently didnât think ahead to leave a clear line of succession. With two of the remaining pack dead as a results of a fight for leadership, the military finally caught on and put them in custody, unfortunately, they call Kitty in because the rogue team has escaped. They pose a danger to the civilian population and to Kittyâs pack.
Kitty quickly puts together a plan to intercept the rogues with the help of one of her pack (Becky) and Cormac. Her first plan is too of course in true Kitty fashion to talk to them, but the military is ready with traps and tranks if that doesnât work. Though she does here best to use reason, all she can do is distract them long enough for her back up to shoot them up with the tranquilizers. As the the rogues (three of them) are taken away, Kitty promises to come talk to them as human when they wake up. She and Cormac argue over the value of that plan. He is all for just putting silver bullets into them. It is an on going philosophy disagreement that defines Kitty as who she is in this series. She isnât willing to give up on the chance there is some humanity left in the soldiers. As an aside, it is a good analogy to the problem of sending men to war in general. We worship them as heroes in the abstract but they come back changes and are often thrown away by society.
As promised, Kitty goes to see three prisoners. They are hard to talk to, but Kitty gives them the grim truth - she is the only one who still has any hope for them. She is their only advocate and they are otherwise facing permanent incarceration or death. The alpha (Vanderman) seems to far gone, and when one of the other men answer Kitty he attacks. On an interesting note: Vandermanâs answer to what he want is to go back to Afghanistan. An answer that baffles Kitty but is ofter all too common among war veterans with PTSD who canât deal with civilian life.
Her advice is to separate to the two submissive wolves from Vanderman who seems to far gone to save. She offers to try to integrate them into a stable pack. Smart plan that just might work.
With one crisis under control, of course there has to be another in the works. Harold Franklin, CEO of Speedy Mart shows up at her door. His threatening manner combined with the death of one of her callers raises Kittyâs hackles.
The next time Kitty visits the werewolves, she only sees the two deemed âsalvageableâ - the alpha removed and presumably beyond all help. She thinks she can still help so she turns to Rick, vampire master of the city. He knows of a pack that takes in werewolves, but doesnât think theyâll take in the rogues. Kitty of course doesnât give up on them.
While working with the werewolves, Kitty still has to deal with the Harold Franklin herald situation though it isnât really clear at all what that situation actually is. Kitty, Ben, and Cormac go on a stakeout and Carrie Vaughn reminds me why I love this trio and how much Iâm missed it while Cormac was in prison. We also see t he first glimpse that something is different about Cormac. He declares that Harold Franklin is a wizard without any evidence that Kitty or Ben can see but they trust Cormacâs judgement.
Kitty takes the two rogue werewolves for an outing in Denver, introducing them to some of her pack. The session is tense for everyone but Kitty proclaims it a success with no incidents.
The situation with Harold Franklin is at a slow burn as Cormac continues to investigate and Kitty thinks he is acting a little strange (strange compared to how he was before prison).
As the full moon approaches, Kitty promises the tow werewolf soldiers that they can come run with her pack, but she also warns them to behave because they wonât get another chance if things go wrong. Unfortunately after a perfect hunt and run, Kitty wakes up to find one of the new wolves (Waters) has fled. Unfortunately by the time Kitty, Ben, and Tyler catch up to him, he has already killed in an attempt to rescue his Alpha. Both Vanderman and Waters end up dead.
With the A story wrapped up (mostly) Kitty must tackle a weather wizard (Harold Franklin) who is whipping up a supernatural blizzard over Denver. Turns out Cormac has a magical counter spell that just needs Kitty and her wolves to mark symbols all over Denver and keep the wizard distracted as they do so. Furious over being thwarted, Franklin has a magical showdown with Cormac is beaten (throughly!). Which bring to front the big questions - when and how the hell did Cormac become a wizard?
The answer is as bizarre and brilliant as it is creepy. Cormac is now sharing his body with a powerful sorcerous, Amelia Parker, who was hanged 100 years earlier.
After some diplomatic queries, Kitty gets Tyler integrated into the Seattle pack of werewolves.
by Carrie Vaughn
The eighth outing in the Kitty Norville saga breathes some life into the series that sagged a little for me with book seven.
Iâd rank them 3 (5 stars), 1 ( 5 stars), 8 (4 stars), 6 (4 stars), 5 (4 stars), 7 (3 stars), 2 (4 stars), 4 (3 stars), putting Kitty Goes to War among my favorites in the series.
The title refers to war on two fronts, not the least of which is a pack of werewolf soldiers deliberately (sort of) created by the military and now out of control. When Kitty is asked to help, you know she canât turn her back on them.
The book opens (as they often do) with Kitty doing her show and fielding weird callers. This episode is strangely about Speedy Mart and some correlation with supernatural occurrences there. She is sued for libel by the end of the first chapter. Good one Kitty! You know you are on to something when they sue you.
Cormac, released on parole, renews his relationship with Kitty and Ben and they hire him to do some PI work investigating Harold Franklin the CEO of Speedy Mart. As if dealing with one problem isnât enough, Kitty is contacted byDr Elizabeth Shumacher from the Center for Supernatural Studies. She asks for Kitties help but is unwilling to tell her anything over the phone beyond âIt is a werewolf problem.â Kitty canât refuse.
The problem turns out to be a project involving werewolf soldiers. Even though officially there was no such thing, a soldier who was a stable werewolf was recruited. Captain Gordon then created his own squad of werewolves. The squad was a huge success until Gordon, their alpha was killed. He had chosen them carefully, but he apparently didnât think ahead to leave a clear line of succession. With two of the remaining pack dead as a results of a fight for leadership, the military finally caught on and put them in custody, unfortunately, they call Kitty in because the rogue team has escaped. They pose a danger to the civilian population and to Kittyâs pack.
Kitty quickly puts together a plan to intercept the rogues with the help of one of her pack (Becky) and Cormac. Her first plan is too of course in true Kitty fashion to talk to them, but the military is ready with traps and tranks if that doesnât work. Though she does here best to use reason, all she can do is distract them long enough for her back up to shoot them up with the tranquilizers. As the the rogues (three of them) are taken away, Kitty promises to come talk to them as human when they wake up. She and Cormac argue over the value of that plan. He is all for just putting silver bullets into them. It is an on going philosophy disagreement that defines Kitty as who she is in this series. She isnât willing to give up on the chance there is some humanity left in the soldiers. As an aside, it is a good analogy to the problem of sending men to war in general. We worship them as heroes in the abstract but they come back changes and are often thrown away by society.
As promised, Kitty goes to see three prisoners. They are hard to talk to, but Kitty gives them the grim truth - she is the only one who still has any hope for them. She is their only advocate and they are otherwise facing permanent incarceration or death. The alpha (Vanderman) seems to far gone, and when one of the other men answer Kitty he attacks. On an interesting note: Vandermanâs answer to what he want is to go back to Afghanistan. An answer that baffles Kitty but is ofter all too common among war veterans with PTSD who canât deal with civilian life.
Her advice is to separate to the two submissive wolves from Vanderman who seems to far gone to save. She offers to try to integrate them into a stable pack. Smart plan that just might work.
With one crisis under control, of course there has to be another in the works. Harold Franklin, CEO of Speedy Mart shows up at her door. His threatening manner combined with the death of one of her callers raises Kittyâs hackles.
The next time Kitty visits the werewolves, she only sees the two deemed âsalvageableâ - the alpha removed and presumably beyond all help. She thinks she can still help so she turns to Rick, vampire master of the city. He knows of a pack that takes in werewolves, but doesnât think theyâll take in the rogues. Kitty of course doesnât give up on them.
While working with the werewolves, Kitty still has to deal with the Harold Franklin herald situation though it isnât really clear at all what that situation actually is. Kitty, Ben, and Cormac go on a stakeout and Carrie Vaughn reminds me why I love this trio and how much Iâm missed it while Cormac was in prison. We also see t he first glimpse that something is different about Cormac. He declares that Harold Franklin is a wizard without any evidence that Kitty or Ben can see but they trust Cormacâs judgement.
Kitty takes the two rogue werewolves for an outing in Denver, introducing them to some of her pack. The session is tense for everyone but Kitty proclaims it a success with no incidents.
The situation with Harold Franklin is at a slow burn as Cormac continues to investigate and Kitty thinks he is acting a little strange (strange compared to how he was before prison).
As the full moon approaches, Kitty promises the tow werewolf soldiers that they can come run with her pack, but she also warns them to behave because they wonât get another chance if things go wrong. Unfortunately after a perfect hunt and run, Kitty wakes up to find one of the new wolves (Waters) has fled. Unfortunately by the time Kitty, Ben, and Tyler catch up to him, he has already killed in an attempt to rescue his Alpha. Both Vanderman and Waters end up dead.
With the A story wrapped up (mostly) Kitty must tackle a weather wizard (Harold Franklin) who is whipping up a supernatural blizzard over Denver. Turns out Cormac has a magical counter spell that just needs Kitty and her wolves to mark symbols all over Denver and keep the wizard distracted as they do so. Furious over being thwarted, Franklin has a magical showdown with Cormac is beaten (throughly!). Which bring to front the big questions - when and how the hell did Cormac become a wizard?
The answer is as bizarre and brilliant as it is creepy. Cormac is now sharing his body with a powerful sorcerous, Amelia Parker, who was hanged 100 years earlier.
After some diplomatic queries, Kitty gets Tyler integrated into the Seattle pack of werewolves.
Kitty Goes to War (Kitty Norville #8)
by Carrie Vaughn
The eighth outing in the Kitty Norville saga breathes some life into the series that sagged a little for me with book seven.
Iâd rank them 3 (5 stars), 1 ( 5 stars), 8 (4 stars), 6 (4 stars), 5 (4 stars), 7 (3 stars), 2 (4 stars), 4 (3 stars), putting Kitty Goes to War among my favorites in the series.
The title refers to war on two fronts, not the least of which is a pack of werewolf soldiers deliberately (sort of) created by the military and now out of control. When Kitty is asked to help, you know she canât turn her back on them.
The book opens (as they often do) with Kitty doing her show and fielding weird callers. This episode is strangely about Speedy Mart and some correlation with supernatural occurrences there. She is sued for libel by the end of the first chapter. Good one Kitty! You know you are on to something when they sue you.
Cormac, released on parole, renews his relationship with Kitty and Ben and they hire him to do some PI work investigating Harold Franklin the CEO of Speedy Mart. As if dealing with one problem isnât enough, Kitty is contacted byDr Elizabeth Shumacher from the Center for Supernatural Studies. She asks for Kitties help but is unwilling to tell her anything over the phone beyond âIt is a werewolf problem.â Kitty canât refuse.
The problem turns out to be a project involving werewolf soldiers. Even though officially there was no such thing, a soldier who was a stable werewolf was recruited. Captain Gordon then created his own squad of werewolves. The squad was a huge success until Gordon, their alpha was killed. He had chosen them carefully, but he apparently didnât think ahead to leave a clear line of succession. With two of the remaining pack dead as a results of a fight for leadership, the military finally caught on and put them in custody, unfortunately, they call Kitty in because the rogue team has escaped. They pose a danger to the civilian population and to Kittyâs pack.
Kitty quickly puts together a plan to intercept the rogues with the help of one of her pack (Becky) and Cormac. Her first plan is too of course in true Kitty fashion to talk to them, but the military is ready with traps and tranks if that doesnât work. Though she does here best to use reason, all she can do is distract them long enough for her back up to shoot them up with the tranquilizers. As the the rogues (three of them) are taken away, Kitty promises to come talk to them as human when they wake up. She and Cormac argue over the value of that plan. He is all for just putting silver bullets into them. It is an on going philosophy disagreement that defines Kitty as who she is in this series. She isnât willing to give up on the chance there is some humanity left in the soldiers. As an aside, it is a good analogy to the problem of sending men to war in general. We worship them as heroes in the abstract but they come back changes and are often thrown away by society.
As promised, Kitty goes to see three prisoners. They are hard to talk to, but Kitty gives them the grim truth - she is the only one who still has any hope for them. She is their only advocate and they are otherwise facing permanent incarceration or death. The alpha (Vanderman) seems to far gone, and when one of the other men answer Kitty he attacks. On an interesting note: Vandermanâs answer to what he want is to go back to Afghanistan. An answer that baffles Kitty but is ofter all too common among war veterans with PTSD who canât deal with civilian life.
Her advice is to separate to the two submissive wolves from Vanderman who seems to far gone to save. She offers to try to integrate them into a stable pack. Smart plan that just might work.
With one crisis under control, of course there has to be another in the works. Harold Franklin, CEO of Speedy Mart shows up at her door. His threatening manner combined with the death of one of her callers raises Kittyâs hackles.
The next time Kitty visits the werewolves, she only sees the two deemed âsalvageableâ - the alpha removed and presumably beyond all help. She thinks she can still help so she turns to Rick, vampire master of the city. He knows of a pack that takes in werewolves, but doesnât think theyâll take in the rogues. Kitty of course doesnât give up on them.
While working with the werewolves, Kitty still has to deal with the Harold Franklin herald situation though it isnât really clear at all what that situation actually is. Kitty, Ben, and Cormac go on a stakeout and Carrie Vaughn reminds me why I love this trio and how much Iâm missed it while Cormac was in prison. We also see t he first glimpse that something is different about Cormac. He declares that Harold Franklin is a wizard without any evidence that Kitty or Ben can see but they trust Cormacâs judgement.
Kitty takes the two rogue werewolves for an outing in Denver, introducing them to some of her pack. The session is tense for everyone but Kitty proclaims it a success with no incidents.
The situation with Harold Franklin is at a slow burn as Cormac continues to investigate and Kitty thinks he is acting a little strange (strange compared to how he was before prison).
As the full moon approaches, Kitty promises the tow werewolf soldiers that they can come run with her pack, but she also warns them to behave because they wonât get another chance if things go wrong. Unfortunately after a perfect hunt and run, Kitty wakes up to find one of the new wolves (Waters) has fled. Unfortunately by the time Kitty, Ben, and Tyler catch up to him, he has already killed in an attempt to rescue his Alpha. Both Vanderman and Waters end up dead.
With the A story wrapped up (mostly) Kitty must tackle a weather wizard (Harold Franklin) who is whipping up a supernatural blizzard over Denver. Turns out Cormac has a magical counter spell that just needs Kitty and her wolves to mark symbols all over Denver and keep the wizard distracted as they do so. Furious over being thwarted, Franklin has a magical showdown with Cormac is beaten (throughly!). Which bring to front the big questions - when and how the hell did Cormac become a wizard?
The answer is as bizarre and brilliant as it is creepy. Cormac is now sharing his body with a powerful sorcerous, Amelia Parker, who was hanged 100 years earlier.
After some diplomatic queries, Kitty gets Tyler integrated into the Seattle pack of werewolves.
by Carrie Vaughn
The eighth outing in the Kitty Norville saga breathes some life into the series that sagged a little for me with book seven.
Iâd rank them 3 (5 stars), 1 ( 5 stars), 8 (4 stars), 6 (4 stars), 5 (4 stars), 7 (3 stars), 2 (4 stars), 4 (3 stars), putting Kitty Goes to War among my favorites in the series.
The title refers to war on two fronts, not the least of which is a pack of werewolf soldiers deliberately (sort of) created by the military and now out of control. When Kitty is asked to help, you know she canât turn her back on them.
The book opens (as they often do) with Kitty doing her show and fielding weird callers. This episode is strangely about Speedy Mart and some correlation with supernatural occurrences there. She is sued for libel by the end of the first chapter. Good one Kitty! You know you are on to something when they sue you.
Cormac, released on parole, renews his relationship with Kitty and Ben and they hire him to do some PI work investigating Harold Franklin the CEO of Speedy Mart. As if dealing with one problem isnât enough, Kitty is contacted byDr Elizabeth Shumacher from the Center for Supernatural Studies. She asks for Kitties help but is unwilling to tell her anything over the phone beyond âIt is a werewolf problem.â Kitty canât refuse.
The problem turns out to be a project involving werewolf soldiers. Even though officially there was no such thing, a soldier who was a stable werewolf was recruited. Captain Gordon then created his own squad of werewolves. The squad was a huge success until Gordon, their alpha was killed. He had chosen them carefully, but he apparently didnât think ahead to leave a clear line of succession. With two of the remaining pack dead as a results of a fight for leadership, the military finally caught on and put them in custody, unfortunately, they call Kitty in because the rogue team has escaped. They pose a danger to the civilian population and to Kittyâs pack.
Kitty quickly puts together a plan to intercept the rogues with the help of one of her pack (Becky) and Cormac. Her first plan is too of course in true Kitty fashion to talk to them, but the military is ready with traps and tranks if that doesnât work. Though she does here best to use reason, all she can do is distract them long enough for her back up to shoot them up with the tranquilizers. As the the rogues (three of them) are taken away, Kitty promises to come talk to them as human when they wake up. She and Cormac argue over the value of that plan. He is all for just putting silver bullets into them. It is an on going philosophy disagreement that defines Kitty as who she is in this series. She isnât willing to give up on the chance there is some humanity left in the soldiers. As an aside, it is a good analogy to the problem of sending men to war in general. We worship them as heroes in the abstract but they come back changes and are often thrown away by society.
As promised, Kitty goes to see three prisoners. They are hard to talk to, but Kitty gives them the grim truth - she is the only one who still has any hope for them. She is their only advocate and they are otherwise facing permanent incarceration or death. The alpha (Vanderman) seems to far gone, and when one of the other men answer Kitty he attacks. On an interesting note: Vandermanâs answer to what he want is to go back to Afghanistan. An answer that baffles Kitty but is ofter all too common among war veterans with PTSD who canât deal with civilian life.
Her advice is to separate to the two submissive wolves from Vanderman who seems to far gone to save. She offers to try to integrate them into a stable pack. Smart plan that just might work.
With one crisis under control, of course there has to be another in the works. Harold Franklin, CEO of Speedy Mart shows up at her door. His threatening manner combined with the death of one of her callers raises Kittyâs hackles.
The next time Kitty visits the werewolves, she only sees the two deemed âsalvageableâ - the alpha removed and presumably beyond all help. She thinks she can still help so she turns to Rick, vampire master of the city. He knows of a pack that takes in werewolves, but doesnât think theyâll take in the rogues. Kitty of course doesnât give up on them.
While working with the werewolves, Kitty still has to deal with the Harold Franklin herald situation though it isnât really clear at all what that situation actually is. Kitty, Ben, and Cormac go on a stakeout and Carrie Vaughn reminds me why I love this trio and how much Iâm missed it while Cormac was in prison. We also see t he first glimpse that something is different about Cormac. He declares that Harold Franklin is a wizard without any evidence that Kitty or Ben can see but they trust Cormacâs judgement.
Kitty takes the two rogue werewolves for an outing in Denver, introducing them to some of her pack. The session is tense for everyone but Kitty proclaims it a success with no incidents.
The situation with Harold Franklin is at a slow burn as Cormac continues to investigate and Kitty thinks he is acting a little strange (strange compared to how he was before prison).
As the full moon approaches, Kitty promises the tow werewolf soldiers that they can come run with her pack, but she also warns them to behave because they wonât get another chance if things go wrong. Unfortunately after a perfect hunt and run, Kitty wakes up to find one of the new wolves (Waters) has fled. Unfortunately by the time Kitty, Ben, and Tyler catch up to him, he has already killed in an attempt to rescue his Alpha. Both Vanderman and Waters end up dead.
With the A story wrapped up (mostly) Kitty must tackle a weather wizard (Harold Franklin) who is whipping up a supernatural blizzard over Denver. Turns out Cormac has a magical counter spell that just needs Kitty and her wolves to mark symbols all over Denver and keep the wizard distracted as they do so. Furious over being thwarted, Franklin has a magical showdown with Cormac is beaten (throughly!). Which bring to front the big questions - when and how the hell did Cormac become a wizard?
The answer is as bizarre and brilliant as it is creepy. Cormac is now sharing his body with a powerful sorcerous, Amelia Parker, who was hanged 100 years earlier.
After some diplomatic queries, Kitty gets Tyler integrated into the Seattle pack of werewolves.
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