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Kitty and the Silver Bullet

Kitty and the Silver Bullet (Book #4) by Carrie Vaughn. © 2008 Grand Central Publishing. ISBN 0-446-61875-6. Paperback. Paranormal Romance. 337 pages. $6.99 US. [ Purchase ] ** This review is based on an ARC. **

Since she was forced to leave her old, abusive life of being the submissive female werewolf of the Denver pack (Kitty and the Midnight Hour), Kitty has seen a whole new side of the supernatural.

She traveled to Washington D.C. where she mingled with vampires and was eventually captured and forced into shapeshifting on live national television (Kitty Goes to Washington). She dodged the press after signing a book deal and sought refuge in a secluded cabin where the supernatural only followed her (Kitty Takes a Holiday). Life has been a whirlwind of avoidance.

However, when Kitty receives the call that her mother has fallen ill, she has no choice but to return to where it all began and pray that she goes unnoticed by her former pack, who want nothing more than her dead. But Kitty has something this time around that she didn’t when she left Denver a year ago, she has Ben—her lawyer turned lover turned werewolf mate.

What she didn’t bargain for was being swept up in a war between two of the city’s oldest vampires and now it’s up to her to protect her family from the supernatural world war that’s taking over the metropolis. Read more

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Teresa (nom de plume: Torrance Sené) is a self-proclaimed geek, a Janeite, a lover of werewolves and bad-ass angels, an aspiring novelist and an avid book reader who freelances as a web designer. You can follow her on Twitter at @eireannoir.

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Kitty Takes a Holiday

Kitty Takes a Holiday (Book #3) by Carrie Vaughn. © 2007 Grand Central Publishing. ISBN 0-446-61874-8. Paperback. Paranormal Romance. 318 pages. $6.99 US. [ Purchase ]

What is there left to do after being forced to shapeshift into a werewolf on live national television but hide in the proverbial cabin in the woods and write your memoir?

That’s exactly what Kitty Norville does in this series’ third installment. However, being secluded in the Colorado wilderness with only your laptop and some trees for company, isn’t all it’s cracked up to be and soon her attempt to recreate Walden Pond soon fails. Wolf is at home, Kitty is not.

The residents of San Isabel National Forest tolerate her presence in their quiet town but don’t quite roll out the welcome mat for her.

Things escalate bit by bit from “bored to death” to “um, is that thing trying to kill me?” soon enough when she soon discovers animal sacrifices are making a daily apperance on her front porch and her peaceful reverie is interrupted when the incredibly sexy bounty hunter Cormac Bennett arrives at her cabin with his cousin and her lawyer, Ben O’Farrell, who has just happened to be infected by a werewolf. Ben has been pleading to Cormac to do what he does best and shoot him, but Cormac refuses and hopes that Kitty can convince Ben that becoming a werewolf is not a death sentence.

Things get even more interesting when an evil creature lurking in the woods surrounding the cabin sets its preying eyes on Kitty.

Brace yourself, this thrill ride never let’s up and is oh, so enjoyable!

Rating: 5 yee naaldlooshii out of 5!

** Read reviews for books 1-2 here. **

Teresa

Teresa (nom de plume: Torrance Sené) is a self-proclaimed geek, a Janeite, a lover of werewolves and bad-ass angels, an aspiring novelist and an avid book reader who freelances as a web designer. You can follow her on Twitter at @eireannoir.

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Kitty Goes to Washington

Kitty Goes to Washington (Book #2) by Carrie Vaughn. © 2006 Grand Central Publishing. ISBN 0-446-61642-7. Paperback. Paranormal Romance. 342 pages. $6.99 US. [ Purchase ]

Kitty’s best friend has died and now it looks like her life is next on the chopping block. Nothing left to do but run, and take The Midnight Hour with her by doing the show from various different locales in hopes of avoiding her old pack which she rebelled against. Kitty then gets word that she has been requested by the Senate to testify on behalf of all supernatural beings in Washington D.C. So, it’s to the capital she goes.

Kitty is surprised when the vampire mistress of the city, Alette, welcomes her with open arms but she is still ready for things to get shaken up a bit, after all her face is now the poster child for supernatural beings the nation over.

She is not let down when Luis, a were-jaguar who works at the Brazilian Embassy, is determined to open Kitty’s eyes to the truth of the district’s vampires. But then again, Luis is not as trustworthy as he would seem and this lone wolf may just be in a world of trouble (complete with politicians and religious zealots).

This second installment in the Kitty Norville series brings stronger and more complexly developed characters, and pleases to no end! Kitty really comes into her own within this book.

Rating: 4 silver cages out of 5!

** Read review for books 1 here. **

Teresa

Teresa (nom de plume: Torrance Sené) is a self-proclaimed geek, a Janeite, a lover of werewolves and bad-ass angels, an aspiring novelist and an avid book reader who freelances as a web designer. You can follow her on Twitter at @eireannoir.

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When Ghosts Speak by Mary Ann Winkowski

When Ghosts Speak: Understanding the World of Earthbound Spirits by Mary Ann Winkowski. Foreword by James Van Praagh. © 2007 Grand Central Publishing. ISBN 0-446-58118-6. Hardback. Paranormal. 238 pages. $24.99 US. [ Purchase ]

Summary
Mary Ann Winkowski is a devout Catholic, a happily married woman, and a suburban mom like any other, except for one thing: she talks to dead people. Mary Ann discovered this gift when she was a very young girl and spent her early years attending local funerals with her grandmother to communicate with those who had died. Thus began a lifetime of helping the departed make peace with whatever keeps them from crossing over. Mary Ann shares with us fascinating stories of her many paranormal encounters, as well as advice on how to recognize when you’re not alone.

Review
The book opens with Part One: Listening to Spirits which tells of Mary Ann’s inspiring journey, covering the fifty years she has been conversing with the earthbound spirit world.

Within Part Two: Understanding Earthbound Spirits, Mary Ann does a brilliant job at dispelling ghostly myths, tackling topics like energy sources used by earthbound spirits, eerie ‘super powers’ (the full moon does have an effect guys!), cold spots, whether or not earthbounds have special access to higher knowledge, the dangers of summoning ghosts, to where ghosts congregate (surprise, it’s not cemeteries!) and detecting earthbounds. Read more

Teresa

Teresa (nom de plume: Torrance Sené) is a self-proclaimed geek, a Janeite, a lover of werewolves and bad-ass angels, an aspiring novelist and an avid book reader who freelances as a web designer. You can follow her on Twitter at @eireannoir.

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Kitty and the Midnight Hour

Kitty and the Midnight Hour (Book #1) by Carrie Vaughn. © 2005 Warner Books (Grand Central Publishing). ISBN 0-446-61641-9. Paperback. Paranormal Romance. 272 pages. $6.99 US. [ Purchase ]

Welcome to Denver, Colorado. Home to KNOB, a radio station where Kitty Norville works the midnight-shift as a DJ. But Kitty is not your average twenty-something, she harbors a secret—she is a werewolf.

One night, being fed up with lame song requests during her shift, Kitty accidentally starts “The Midnight Hour”. An hour of radio which turns into an advice show for the supernaturally disadvantaged.

Soon she is inundated with calls from vampires, witches, werewolves and more from all across the country. While the show opens the door for the community of paranormal, it’s also shone a light straight onto Kitty and her secret life. With the good, comes the bad, and soon Kitty is dealing not only with the abuse of her pack’s alpha male, but also with one hot werewolf hunter named Cormac who aims to rid the world of her, a faith-healer bent on “saving their souls” and her pack and a few raging undead who are not happy in the least with the public being away of their existence.

An amazing start to what I hope is a long-running paranormal series!

Rating: 5 bounty hunters out of 5!

Teresa

Teresa (nom de plume: Torrance Sené) is a self-proclaimed geek, a Janeite, a lover of werewolves and bad-ass angels, an aspiring novelist and an avid book reader who freelances as a web designer. You can follow her on Twitter at @eireannoir.

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