Monday, November 22, 2010

Review: Kitty's House of Horrors (Kitty Norville, Book 7) by Carrie Vaughn

I really loved this series and bought the first ones but stopped around about the time Kitty and Ben went to Las Vegas.  I don't know why.  I guess I burned out on supernatural romances or all the angst in Kitty's life got to me.  I picked up Carrie Vaughn's latest.  Very strange-- Apocalypse meets fantasy but very well written.  That got me back into Kitty's life again.

This is Kitty alone and in the wild and being hunted.  It wasn't too hard to guess the villains and Vaughn drops huge clunking hints all along the way.  BUT, Kitty is still appealing.  She's an alpha not because of super fighting skills or toughness but mostly because she's a caregiver.  She takes people under her wing and naturally stands up to bullying.  She protects.  All too often shifter romances interpret alpha behavior as very macho and take charge when its really about care giving.  The burden that must be in the long haul.  Like parenting teenagers for life!  Anyway, the title is ridiculous, of course.  The house isn't horrible at all--your basic beautiful, remote luxury hunting/fishing lodge in a remote region.  No lurking ghosts, possessions or hidden passages.  The horrors are outside peaking in and disturbing the beauty of the setting.

I've got the next in the series and will see if I like it as well.

ALIVE!! He's ALIVE!

Yes, I'm reanimating my blog!  I wasn't really inspired when I first started this blog but have been reading more blogs lately and decided I don't mind sharing.  I have opinions and freely share them in certain circumstances but, at the time, I had read too many blogs that shared too many personal details. 

Don't expect to hear about too many personal things here.  I'm going to do book reviews--romance, science fiction and some mysteries with a little history and travel thrown in.  I'm going to do library stuff since I've worked in just about every type of library except a school library.  I'm skipping politics.  I'm skipping recipes.  I may, however, moan about the weather. (Psss, we LOVE to moan about the weather in Chicago!) I may share stuff when I travel.  I may remind you of the olden days of the 1960's and '70s, maybe even dip further back in time.

Come along with me on this journey.