Friday, November 14, 2008

Kitty goes to Washington

By Carrie Vaughn

As a self proclaimed werewolf, Kitty is called as an expert witness to testify before a Congressional committee overseeing a government agency The Center for the Study of Paranatural Biology, which has just released a report that claims that lycanthropy and vampirism are diseases and real. But it is a trap. The head of the committee is Senator Joseph Duke who is rabidly against werewolves and vampires, especially Kitty. Things smell wrong to Kitty and she and her lawyer Ben start investigating the head of the Center, trying to figure out what is really going on behind the scenes. Too late, Kitty discovers that she is the focus of the plot and ends up totally exposed as she transforms on live TV.

Again Carrie Vaughn has created a sympathetic picture of the difficulties of being a werewolf and the same time telling a complex, fast paced story, this time taking advantage of all the sleeze that makes up politics. If Kitty thought pack politics could be deadly, she’s learning that Washington politics are even more so.

Reviewed by Linda Suzane

Kitty goes to Washington
Warner Books Copyright 2006