Review Courtesy of All Things Urban Fantasy

One thing I like about Kitty Norville that she is excellent at talking herself out of situations and getting people to see her side of things. She’s forced to rely on that skill a lot in KITTY STEALS THE SHOW as she gets into more trouble with vampires by constantly asking questions she probably shouldn’t.

One of the big changes in this book is the new setting. Kitty leaves Denver behind for a paranormal conference across the pond, and London for shifters is nothing like the US. I was actually surprised at the vast difference in the relationship between vampires and weres in Europe and the U.S. In the U.S. they tend to stay away from each other but in Europe (except Great Britain) weres are treated as the vampire’s slaves.

It was fun to see Kitty completely geek out about seeing double decker buses and meeting a real live contemporary (who is now a vampire) of Shakespeare. It would have been fascinating to actually sit in on some of the conference lectures like “Theoretical Notions of Space and Time as Applied to Vampire Physiology” but almost everything that happened in KITTY STEALS THE SHOW felt like preparation for some huge war that might happen in the future.

Aside from the treading water feeling in places, for the most part I enjoyed learning more about Kitty’s world outside of the U.S. and hope that this build up to something bigger on the horizon pays off in the end.

Sexual Content: Reference to sex