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Kitty and The Midnight Hour

Kitty Norville, Book 1

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Kitty and The Midnight Hour

By: Carrie Vaughn
Narrated by: Marguerite Gavin
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Kitty Norville is a midnight-shift DJ for a Denver radio station---and a werewolf in the closet. Sick of lame song requests, she accidentally starts "The Midnight Hour," a late-night advice show for the supernaturally disadvantaged. After desperate vampires, werewolves, and witches across the country begin calling in to share their woes, her new show is a raging success. But it's Kitty who can use some help. With one sexy werewolf hunter and a few homicidal undead on her tail, Kitty may have bitten off more than she can chew.©2005 Carrie Vaughn, LLC (P)2009 Tantor Paranormal & Urban Vampires Urban Fantasy Action & Adventure Mystery Police Procedurals
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"Fresh, hip, fantastic.... Don't miss this one. You're in for a real treat!" (L. A. Banks, author of he Vampire Huntress Legends series)

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Well written, plotted and performed. Nice world building by the author gives a immersive experience with a significant amount of genuine humor. Even if you are not into paranormal stories as a rule this has a lot to recommend it.

Novel premise and very enjoyable.

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This was much better than I anticipated....Kitty the werewolf (as the main character) in the storyline had me feeling a bit skeptical. But Kitty she is...and the storyline is about the complications of being a werewolf, learning to live within pack rules, outing yourself, and dealing with success. Along the road there is betrayal, murder attempts and loss. Dialogue is good between characters. It's fairly straightforward. If you like Kim Harrison's Rachel Morgan, I could seeing her easily being friends with Kitty Norville. Narrator is excellent. It's entertainment!

Howling good time!

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I liked the story. But I bought it on sale and I'm going to wait until the second book is on sale as well. Going to use my credit on something better than just good.

Only issue I had with the narration was the voice sounded too old for such a young woman; but the scratchiness was good for a radio personality.

Bit of a spoiler alert here, but: Some reviews I read before buying it said they were frustrated with Kitty's weakness. But I don't agree that she was weak. I thought she was stupid and arrogant before being turned. But she smartened up afterwards, and after dealing with the trauma of being turned and overcoming the strong instinctual forces affecting her, she turned things around.

Well written, good narration.

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While most people would roll their eyes at me when I say that I’m a fan of urban fantasy (mostly because of series such as Twilight tainting the genre with poor writing, horrible characters, and just plain bad plots), I think that gems such as the Kitty Norville series and the Mercy Thompson books are shining examples of how exactly supernatural characters can be used as allegories for the human condition.

The main character of this series, Kitty Norville, is a late night radio DJ who happens to be a werewolf. Yes, the jokes about her name are mentioned and made.

This book in particular isn’t about some ancient evil awakening once again, nor is it about some sappily doomed romance between her and a human/her and another supernatural being, the book is actually about her dealing with being a werewolf and struggling to keep both her halves above water without letting one subsume the other.

Lycanthropy is treated as both an escape and a disease. Yes, you turn into a big, scary, badass wolf, but rarely is it on your terms and every full moon you HAVE to turn or else you will go insane. There’s also pack dynamics, internal politicking, and much more that many normal people just aren’t prepared for when they say that they wanna be werewolves. The pack isn’t also treated like a regular family unit in the sense that normal people understand, either.


Would I recommend this series? Yes. 100%, no question.

Should you buy it? I’d say wait until you have your monthly free credit from Audible so you can at least download this book and give it a try; after that it’s up to you (I’ve personally used three of my monthly credits to get the first three books).


TL;DR: This is a good book series about urban fantasy that you should check out.

Interesting take on urban fantasy

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by the end of the book I am a true fan of this series. the narrator grows on you

keep listening book gets better.

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