Kitty Saves the World (Kitty Norville, #14) in SOS: Serious Overload of Series

Dec 15, 2014 Sandra rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: pnr-uf, own, vampires, shifters, carrie-vaughn, kindle

I hate it when a really good series decides to say goodbye.

But at least this one went out strong. Our heroine Kitty Norville, werewolf, grew over the 14 books into a capable strong Regina Luporum. A radio talkshow host - The Midnight Hour - where she gave a voice to the supernatural and got to stir up trouble on a regular basis.

As this was the final book, all Kitty's allies made an appearance and in fact turned into her army against Roman the Master Vampire, the Dux Bellorum, General of the bad ...more

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Aug 19, 2015 Francesca the Fierce (Under the Covers Book Blog) rated it really liked it

Shelves: genre-urban-fantasy, read-audio-books, books-read-2015

And so it comes to an end. I have gone through a lot of ups and downs with the Kitty Norville series, and I admit that I skipped the previous book in this series as it was about Cormac. Why, you may ask? Well, a lot of my issues with this series center around his character. Because I LOVE his character so much. And I really dislike where his storyline went from quite early on in this series. Instead of being bitchy about his one solo story, I decided to skip. I know nothing good awaited for

And so it comes to an end. I have gone through a lot of ups and downs with the Kitty Norville series, and I admit that I skipped the previous book in this series as it was about Cormac. Why, you may ask? Well, a lot of my issues with this series center around his character. Because I LOVE his character so much. And I really dislike where his storyline went from quite early on in this series. Instead of being bitchy about his one solo story, I decided to skip. I know nothing good awaited for me there, and I considered dropping the series altogether. But then this came up and I saw it was the end. And my OCD told me you have to know what happens.

KITTY SAVES THE WORLD is action packed and wraps up storylines that were previously started. It is a good wrap up book to consolidate this series and if you’ve been a fan all along this will be a great end cap. I tried to put my issues aside and just enjoy this book for what the author gave us, and I managed to enjoy the story.

Kitty is still a very real character. She struggles with the chaos in the paranormal world and the fact that the responsibility to save the world depends solely on her. But all she really wants in the end is to be normal. Enjoy life with her husband Ben, run with her pack, maybe have a couple of kids that call her mom running around. She knows a lot of that is not in the cards for her, but that doesn’t take away the desire.

I found myself liking her again because of that. There’s something very real and human about her character in this book. And she is still very much kick ass.

Then we have Ben. I came to terms with the fact he’s her mate. And learned to like him in this book. No, I’m not happy. No, I’m not satisfied. But he is a good mate for her and I saw a ruthless side to him that would do anything and risk anything to protect her.

I was glad to not see a lot of Cormac in this book. God, it hurts to say that. I didn’t want to deal with the Amelia issues in his head or see a lot more of that, so his presence is nice but he’s a side character here and I was ok with that. The one reference that is made at the what ifs might’ve hit too close to home.

I loved the actual conflict. As usual with this series, that is something Carrie Vaughn does very well. None of these books are ever repetitive and they always have a great obstacle that the characters must overcome. This was no different and quite a fast paced read.

I am happy to have read this, but I’m also ok with letting go of this world. KITTY SAVES THE WORLD was a bittersweet end for me. ...more

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Oct 20, 2014 Rachel-RN rated it really liked it

Shelves: read-2015

For the last book, it was definitely a strong one. There's so much going on and we get characters from previous books that help make it happen. I liked seeing (reading) Tina, Grant, Anastasia, and Rick again. Old times. How this stands in regards to the rest of the series, is it is one of the better books. This one and Low Midnight, help make up for the lackluster (IMO) books 11 and 12.
A few things kept this from being a 5 star read for me. The first was the lack of page time for Kitty's pack. T ...more

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Feb 24, 2014 Steph rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: author-웃, series-completed, series-ended, series-final-book, year-read-2015, sos-games-bsb-r12

Since Kitty's pronouncement of Dux Bellorum's Long Game last year, she's beginning to think Roman's after more than just world domination and she's determined to continue doing whatever she can to stop him and his allies.

For this, she needs some allies of her own and they all gather together in this one final showdown to save the world. Ben and Cormac/Amelia are always by her side. Friends from past installments join the ranks - Tina McCannon, psychic on TV show Paradox PI; Detective Jessi Hardi ...more

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Oct 28, 2015 Ruby Hollyberry rated it did not like it

Shelves: fantasy-sci-fi

Terrible. Way to go for the low-hanging fruit! Would people whose imaginations have run out please stop resorting to using angels and devils to end their series?? Please?? Thank you.

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