Kitty Norville is a midnight-shift DJ for a Denver radio station - and a werewolf in the closet. Her new late-night advice show for the supernatura...
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Oct 14, 2010
Elizabeth
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I don't think I can tell you anything about this book; I read it in about a minute. And it doesn't matter. The book is pretty much the same as the rest of the genre: pretty woman, suffered violence, struggles to rebuild herself and her life, learns to stand on her own, with werewolves and vampires. I loved these when I was seventeen and twenty two. It doesn't hold the same allure now. Writing about it makes me yawn.
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But. I read this as a reaction to a difficult week at work and while More...
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May 29, 2010
Bry
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Thoughts from before I finished the book:
Only 3 chapters in and I am slightly disgusted. All the reviews here talk about this story being a coming to story for Kitty, a woman traumatized and learning to stand on her own again. Seriously though the way she is treated within the pack is just as emotional and mentally abusive as the half ripping her to shreds to make her a were in the first place.
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Only 3 chapters in and I am slightly disgusted. All the reviews here talk about this story being a coming to story for Kitty, a woman traumatized and learning to stand on her own again. Seriously though the way she is treated within the pack is just as emotional and mentally abusive as the half ripping her to shreds to make her a were in the first place.
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Apr 26, 2010
Heather
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I'll admit it, Vaughn lost me at the pornstache, but I'll take it from the top.
For starters, her heroine is named after a stripper. Kitty? Are we serious? But I could have overlooked that had she not have been so flat, dull, and underdeveloped. Kitty is a werewolf at the bottom rung of her pack. She allows herself to be commanded and screwed by the men of her pack in exchange flickering moments of affection, that almost always occur while she is being pounded, and “protection”, wh More...
For starters, her heroine is named after a stripper. Kitty? Are we serious? But I could have overlooked that had she not have been so flat, dull, and underdeveloped. Kitty is a werewolf at the bottom rung of her pack. She allows herself to be commanded and screwed by the men of her pack in exchange flickering moments of affection, that almost always occur while she is being pounded, and “protection”, wh More...
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Nov 25, 2011
David
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I am generally not a huge fan of post-Buffy urban fantasy, particularly the "hot chicks in leather" genre. The only reason I decided to try the first book in the popular "Kitty Norville" series is that I've heard good things about the author, Carrie Vaughn, and also it was on sale on Audible.com.
Well, Kitty and the Midnight Hour is well-written and not as schlocky as I feared, but it did not change my mind about the genre, nor am I likely to continue following the More...
Well, Kitty and the Midnight Hour is well-written and not as schlocky as I feared, but it did not change my mind about the genre, nor am I likely to continue following the More...
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Oct 03, 2009
Ceridwen
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Okay. So I'm supposed to do a drunk book review of Dead Until Dark*, but now that I'm actually drunk, I find that I don't want to deal with Sookie Sackhouse and whatever she's about. I also find that I keep having to go back and clean up my crappy typing, but I guess that's the problem with the drunk book review. (I simply don't want to know how long it took me to clean up that last sentence.)
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Anyway, I pretty thoroughly dug this book. I've been on this mission to understand what's up More...
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Mar 29, 2009
Lady Danielle "The Book Huntress"
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This was an interesting read that takes a different path for the urban fantasy heroine. Kitty is not the usual kickbutt heroine who can handle whatever life throws at her. She's a regular girl, who happens to be a werewolf. I found that intensely refreshing.
Kitty is the wolf of lowest status in her pack and complete submissive when the story starts. She has to come into her own and into the realization that she can make it on her own, and that she doesn't need the pack so much th More...
Kitty is the wolf of lowest status in her pack and complete submissive when the story starts. She has to come into her own and into the realization that she can make it on her own, and that she doesn't need the pack so much th More...
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Dec 29, 2009
nimrodiel
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When a late radio dj, who is also a werewolf, gets bored what do you suppose will happen? Kitty Norville accidentally turns her late night music show into "The Midnight Hour". A late night talk show for all sorts of supernatural beings (and not) with problems. However, as her show skyrockets to fame, Kitty finds herself in dire need of help. The local vampire clan has hired a werewolf hunter to kill her, Local police have asked for her help in catching a serial killer who might be a va
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Jul 24, 2009
Jim
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Oh my - old timers! I thought I had this book, but couldn't find it. For some reason I'd collected the next 4, but didn't have the first, which was weird. I hadn't realized I read it! <sigh> Well, I'm going to re-read it & then read the others that I have. I guess it wasn't particularly memorable.
I barely got into it & remembered it fairly well. I blame my lack of memory on me & reading dozens of similar books over the past few years. It was fun! On to the next!!!
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I barely got into it & remembered it fairly well. I blame my lack of memory on me & reading dozens of similar books over the past few years. It was fun! On to the next!!!
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Jan 29, 2011
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Jul 16, 2008
Jean
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The writing is smooth and easy to read, the characters have that ring of reality to them that's so important and the book doesn't get lost in its universe. On the downside it reads more like a string of events and less like a plot. It was clearly set up with a series in mind.
The main conflict plays hide and seek and I was never quite sure what it was until it came roaring out of nowhere towards the end. To put it simply there was a lot going on at once and the focus never really sett More...
The main conflict plays hide and seek and I was never quite sure what it was until it came roaring out of nowhere towards the end. To put it simply there was a lot going on at once and the focus never really sett More...
Aug 20, 2009
Sheri
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Kitty and the Midnight Hour is a laugh out loud fast paced page turner.
Kitty works as the "grave yard shift" D.J. for a Denver radio station. She is hiding a secret, she is a werewolf. One evening on the show, it slips she is a werewolf, her whole world changes. Soon she has a werewolf "bounty hunter" on her trail, an upset Vampire leader, and (her) Alpha-male pack leader wanting her to quit the show.
Fast paced, suspenseful and humorous, this book is not lik More...
Kitty works as the "grave yard shift" D.J. for a Denver radio station. She is hiding a secret, she is a werewolf. One evening on the show, it slips she is a werewolf, her whole world changes. Soon she has a werewolf "bounty hunter" on her trail, an upset Vampire leader, and (her) Alpha-male pack leader wanting her to quit the show.
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May 09, 2011
Yui
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After starting 5novels I couldn't finish that had my head pounding after a couple of chapters and (pitiful though it may sound) feeling as if I'm ready to slit my own throat to get away to bad writings, I found this book at the back of my bookshelf forgotten and full of dust. I can only be glad that at the time I had strength left in me to test a couple of pages and that I didn't have to get past 20pages to get interested.
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Nov 30, 2011
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Aug 13, 2011
JG (The Introverted Reader)
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Kitty Norville is a late-night DJ who stumbles upon a popular idea for a talk show--"The Midnight Hour" in which she and her listeners discuss any and all thing supernatural. And the girl knows what she's talking about. She's a werewolf. Unfortunately, her new-found success brings her some unwanted attention. Her Alpha and the master of the local vampire family want her off the air. Someone hires a werewolf hunter to take her out. And Kitty has just found out that there's a rogue
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Feb 09, 2011
Steph
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Kitty and the Midnight Hour is our first look into the life of Kitty Norville. She's a were who can shift at any time, however prefers to only shift when necessary - on the night of the full moon. In her world, shifting outside of the full moon can lead to becoming more wolf than wo/man and she's not about to let that happen.
Kitty hosts the "Midnight Hour" radio show and loves her job. So, when her alpha tells her that talking about the supernatural community, even in More...
Kitty hosts the "Midnight Hour" radio show and loves her job. So, when her alpha tells her that talking about the supernatural community, even in More...
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Mar 19, 2009
Chris
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This book is a great debut from Carrie. It's a fast paced read with several twists and turns, and some good suspenceful momements. I love Carrie's characters here. Kitty is a great protagonist, a werewolf that's near the bottom of the ladder in the pack and is not used to taking care of herself, a "puppy". This was a great journey along with Kitty as she learns her way in the world a little bit, through the help of her radio show, "The Midnight Hour".
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Sep 30, 2007
Rachel
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This was an interesting take the dichotomy between group security and personal freedom. It is the story of Kitty, a DJ and lowest werewolf on the totem pole, as she builds a radio show, and builds her self-confidence to the point where she needs to find a different relationship with her pack. While a well-imagined take on what a werewolf pack might be like, the author also uses this (and Vampire Families, and even cults) to explore the ideas of belonging and freedom, and how growing and changi
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Aug 03, 2008
Jiaka1981
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I love good werwolf story, but i feel that this one came little short. The this book was written to introduce the next one, too many loose ends were left open. I also couldnt relete to the completely submissive behaveior of kitty is she the heroin or the damsel distres. She's one of those women who stays in abusive reletionships and doesnt bother hiding the bruises. Not all my favorite female heroins are Anita blake badass but i'd like a little self respect. I like the world she lives in and am
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Aug 12, 2011
Jenn
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I'm not sure how I feel about this book.
I liked Kitty's growth from submissive doormat to someone with a little more oomph in her back pocket but she hasn't quite changed because she's still kind of wussy at the end. I wanted her to go all the way at the end <spoiler>and by all the way I mean not turn tail and run at the end when the going got tough with her less than stellar Alphas...thereby leaving her pack dealing with less than stellar Alphas and their mess.</spoiler>
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I liked Kitty's growth from submissive doormat to someone with a little more oomph in her back pocket but she hasn't quite changed because she's still kind of wussy at the end. I wanted her to go all the way at the end <spoiler>and by all the way I mean not turn tail and run at the end when the going got tough with her less than stellar Alphas...thereby leaving her pack dealing with less than stellar Alphas and their mess.</spoiler>
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Feb 11, 2012
Khristine
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*Spoiler * I hated this book for a few reasons: 1. Kitty's wolf had this sickening "love" for her alpha. When I say "love", I mean that feeling battered women have towards their abusers. Am I being too harsh? I don't think so. 2. The male Alpha has complete control over his pack, including thier bodies i.e. and what they do with them. He (in this novel at least, I am not sure about the rest) can command any wolf under him to shift (which would not be horrifying in the least b
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Feb 05, 2012
Nathan (SkynJay)
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Review written after a reread of the book.
The Kitty Norvell series is one of the few urban fantasy that have kept my interest. A couple of the middle books are really good. I guess that because of that, i forgot how mediocre the first book of this series is.
Kitty is a werewolf, attacked and turned in the near past and living as part of the Denver pack. She DJ's the late shift for a indie radio station, and almost accidentally the show slowly becomes a popular call in show More...
The Kitty Norvell series is one of the few urban fantasy that have kept my interest. A couple of the middle books are really good. I guess that because of that, i forgot how mediocre the first book of this series is.
Kitty is a werewolf, attacked and turned in the near past and living as part of the Denver pack. She DJ's the late shift for a indie radio station, and almost accidentally the show slowly becomes a popular call in show More...
Dec 17, 2011
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Dec 14, 2011
***Dave
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(Original review: http://hill-kleerup.org/blog/2009/05/05/...)
Overall: Good
Story: Good
Re-Readability: Fair
Characters: Good
The best way to describe this book is to as YA “Anita Blake” novel. That may be unfair to Ms. Vaughn, but there’s not much ground covered here in the first book of a series that hasn’t been set up by Laurel K. Hamilton’s vampire hunter series — the vampires, the werewolves, the hunters of monsters, they all feel somehow familiar.
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Overall: Good
Story: Good
Re-Readability: Fair
Characters: Good
The best way to describe this book is to as YA “Anita Blake” novel. That may be unfair to Ms. Vaughn, but there’s not much ground covered here in the first book of a series that hasn’t been set up by Laurel K. Hamilton’s vampire hunter series — the vampires, the werewolves, the hunters of monsters, they all feel somehow familiar.
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Nov 03, 2011
Fangs for the Fantasy
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Kitty is a werewolf. Though she has worked hard to keep it hidden from her friends and family – and certainly from her work colleagues at the radio station she late night DJs for.
At least she did, until one show got out of hand and suddenly she is talking the supernatural all the time. Her ratings spike and she grows ever more popular reaching out to people who want to talk about the supernatural – as well as a huge number of vampires and werewolves who want someone to talk to, to advi More...
At least she did, until one show got out of hand and suddenly she is talking the supernatural all the time. Her ratings spike and she grows ever more popular reaching out to people who want to talk about the supernatural – as well as a huge number of vampires and werewolves who want someone to talk to, to advi More...
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Oct 12, 2011
Cal {Heather}
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I went through a werewolf phase recently, and I read this one again. Kitty Norville is a late-night DJ who decides to open up her radio show to all sorts of supernaturals as a sort of Dear Abby for the midnight set. She, however, does not "come out of the closet" as a werewolf.
A lot of the book is her dealing with the pack politics, in which she is pretty much mentally and emotionally abused, and becoming more assertive. This doesn't happen overnight, and at the end of the bo More...
A lot of the book is her dealing with the pack politics, in which she is pretty much mentally and emotionally abused, and becoming more assertive. This doesn't happen overnight, and at the end of the bo More...
Aug 05, 2011
Ally
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Like any other secret werewolf, Kitty Norville hates her dull "real world" job. Working as a night shift DJ at a Denver radio station, she craves excitement, not a steady diet of sappy song requests. Finally, in desperation, she introduces a new feature, a "midnight hour" on-air discussions about the existence of werewolves and vampires. Before she knows it, Kitty is fielding calls from dozens of vampires, werewolves, and witches. And then things really begin to get strange.
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Jul 30, 2011
Mark
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Kitty and the Midnight Hour by Carrie Vaughn
Book One of the Kitty Series
ISBN: 978 0 575 10069 5
Kitty Norville’s a DJ on a radio station (KNOB! Does this mean something different to people not in the UK?) in Denver. When she turns her airtime into a talk show called ‘The Midnight Hour’, it becomes extremely popular. Soon it becomes syndicated across the country, with all manner of would-be and real supernatural vampires and werewolves phoning in to tell tales and share grievances.
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Book One of the Kitty Series
ISBN: 978 0 575 10069 5
Kitty Norville’s a DJ on a radio station (KNOB! Does this mean something different to people not in the UK?) in Denver. When she turns her airtime into a talk show called ‘The Midnight Hour’, it becomes extremely popular. Soon it becomes syndicated across the country, with all manner of would-be and real supernatural vampires and werewolves phoning in to tell tales and share grievances.
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Mar 02, 2011
Laura
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I'm glad I listened to everyone who said to read this series. I couldn't put it down it was very interesting. It's about Kitty Norville, just a normal girl with her own radio show. Almost. A few years ago Kitty was bitten by a werewolf and is now one herself. She is low on the totem pole of the local pack and has to answer to her Alpha Carl at all costs. She has issues with the wolf who turned her (Zan) and has to rely on the pack's Beta, T.J. to help her with pack problems. One night on her r
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Jan 26, 2011
Cynthia
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I have had this book for ages and just now decided to pick it up. What a treat it was.
Kitty Norville is a late night DJ on a rock station. She is also a werewolf. When she decides on impulse to talk to her listeners about the supernatural, she is surprised by the calls she receives. So begins The Midnight Hour, a talk show for and about werewolves, vampires and the like. The show is wildly popular... with everyone except the town's Master vampire. Kitty's pack leader also wants More...
Kitty Norville is a late night DJ on a rock station. She is also a werewolf. When she decides on impulse to talk to her listeners about the supernatural, she is surprised by the calls she receives. So begins The Midnight Hour, a talk show for and about werewolves, vampires and the like. The show is wildly popular... with everyone except the town's Master vampire. Kitty's pack leader also wants More...
Jan 11, 2011
Ithlilian
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I've tried a few different werewolf main character books, and have had mixed feelings. I read this book in one sitting and I am very happy with it. First, what I didn't like. I didn't like that it was fairly obvious who the murderer was from the beginning. Also, I didn't like the main characters submissiveness. Well, knowing who the bad guy was didn't take away from learning more about the characters introduced in the book, and the submissiveness didn't last long. The talk radio part of the plot
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