Book Review: Kitty‘s Big Trouble (Kitty Norville, #9) by Carrie Vaughn
Kitty‘s Big Trouble (Kitty Norville, #9) by Carrie Vaughn. © 2011 Tor. ISBN 9780765365651. Mass Media Paperback. Urban Fantasy. 320 pages. Source: ARC provided by the publishers.
Back Cover Blurb: Kitty Norville is back and in more trouble than ever. Her recent run-in with werewolves traumatized by the horrors of war has made her start wondering how long the United States government might have been covertly using werewolves in combat. Have any famous names in our own history been actually supernatural? She’s got suspicions about William Tecumseh Sherman. Then … an interview with the right vampire puts her on the trail of Wyatt Earp, vampire hunter.
But her investigations lead her to a clue about the enigmatic vampire Romance and the mysterious Long Game played by vampires through the millennia. That clue, plus a call from a powerful vampire in San Francisco, suddenly puts Kitty and her friends on the supernatural chessboard, turning them into pieces in a dangerously active play. But Kitty Norville is never content to be a pawn…
Review: The “Kitty Norville” series is excellent in the way that it’s almost episodic. Yet while Kitty’s Big Trouble has lots of fantastic action and draws in bits from previous books—giving us that overarching episodic feel—I can’t say that I loved this installment.
It was enjoyable but it just felt weird in places and I found myself putting it down several times (I even think I read a couple of books before coming back to it). Kitty is in a completely new world—one hidden within, or rather underneath, San Francisco—full of Chinese mythology where she discovers even more supernatural creatures to wrap her head around. Good, but not crazy good and probably my least favorite of the series thus far. Still, this remains my favorite series and I’m really looking forward to #10! 3/5.
