Prior to reading her latest novel, Discord's Apple, I have to admit I'd not read anything by Carrie Vaughn. As much as I love urban fantasy, somehow I'd missed her series about a werewolf named Kitty entirely. And as if that wasn't bad enough, Vaughn is a Colorado author (based in Boulder) who has set Kitty up in Denver. So how did I miss this?
Well, much like the "Dresden Files" series by Jim Butcher, thankfully I didn't have to start all the way at the beginning to get into this series. Kitty Goes to War is the eighth book in the series and the first published by Tor books. The previous seven are published by Grand Central Publishing. Lucky for me, Amazon doesn't really care who publishes them and will send me the first seven books in the series before too long...
Back to this book though... Kitty Norville is the alpha dog of a pack of werewolves based in Denver. She hosts "The Midnight Hour," a radio talk show she uses to talk to her small (but dedicated and growing) audience about paranormal events in general. Unfortunately she is getting sued after running a series of shows about weird things happening at Speedy Mart convenience stores across the country. Is the owner, Harold Franklin, really up to something nefarious or is it just a series of coincidences? The fact that Franklin is suing the show for libel tends to hint that he has something to hide...
In addition to the weirdness with Speedy Mart, Kitty gets called in to help with three Army soldiers back from Afghanistan having some serious trouble readjusting to civilian life after their leader dies in the field. Though Kitty wants to help, her pack is a bit less inclined to let trained killers into the fold. Can Kitty convince the military and the soldiers that they want to control their wolf halves? Or will they continue to run wild until the military has to use a more permanent solution?
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