Kitty and the Midnight Hour

Long-time Listener, First-Time Werewolf
By Carrie Vaughn
SFBC edition 2007
Kitty and the Midnight Hour
Warner Books Copyright 2005
Kitty Norville is a werewolf who is also hosts a radio show called the Midnight Hour, “the show that isn’t afraid of the dark or the creatures that live there...” Almost by accident she starts taking calls about the supernatural, and her down-to-earth advice to werewolves, vampires, and wannabes, believers and disbelievers, turns her show into a rating success. But not everyone is happy with her popularity. Her pack leader wants her to quit, so does the head of the local Vampire family. But Kitty loves her show. It is hers, something important, that helps her hold her life together. Then someone sends a bounty hunter after her. Cormac, a man who makes his living killing werewolves, has been hired to kill her while she is on air. In a bold move she keeps him talking, convinces him hold off killing her, but in the meantime announces on live radio that she is a werewolf. Everyone, even her mother now knows. Her life is changed forever.

She has to find out who wants her dead, hates her enough to hire Cormac. Not only that, someone is out killing people and it looks like a werewolf. As the only confessed werewolf, Kitty ends up the police prime suspect, and she ends up turning to Cormac to help her clear her name and put the end to the murderous rampage.

Being a werewolf isn’t easy, Carrie Vaughn makes Kitty a sympathetic character, one you want to root for. Her world is interesting and captivating and full of surprises.

Reviewed by Linda Suzane

Kitty and the Midnight Hour
By Carrie Vaughn
Warner Books Copyright 2005

Long-time Listener, First-Time Werewolf
SFBC edition 2007