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    Kitty Goes to Washington
    Kitty Goes to Washington
    Kitty Goes to Washington
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    Kitty Goes to Washington

    Written by Carrie Vaughn

    Narrated by Marguerite Gavin

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    The country's only celebrity werewolf, late-night radio host Kitty Norville prefers to be heard, not seen. But when she's invited to testify at a Senate hearing on behalf of supernaturals, her face gets plastered on national television.

    Kitty has been in hot water before, but jumping into the D.C. underworld brings a new set of problems-and a new set of friends and enemies, including the vampire mistress of the city; a super-hot Brazilian were-jaguar; and a paranoid, Bible-thumping senator who wants to expose Kitty as a monster. Kitty quickly learns that in this city of dirty politicians and backstabbing pundits, everyone's itching for a fight.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Media, Inc
    Release dateAug 6, 2009
    ISBN9781400182596
    Kitty Goes to Washington
    Author

    Carrie Vaughn

    Carrie Vaughn survived her air force brat childhood and managed to put down roots in Colorado. Her first book, Kitty and the Midnight Hour, launched a popular series of novels about a werewolf named Kitty who hosts a talk-radio advice show. She is also the author of Voices of Dragons, her debut novel for teen readers. Ms. Vaughn lives in Colorado.

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    • 3/5
      Number 2 in the Kitty Norville series is wildly entertaining! Kitty is a werewolf who hosts a radio talk show called The Midnight Hour, where she chats with callers on the subject of ghosties and ghoulies and things that go bump in the night. She is startled to learn that she has been subpoenaed to appear as an expert on the supernatural at senate hearings on that subject. She meets good guys and bad guys along the way. This is an easy and fun read.
    • 3/5
      not into it like the first book probably the fact that I was expecting some kitty/cormac action has something to do with it but I still liked the story
    • 5/5
      In the second book of this series, Kitty is on her own and traveling from town to town doing her radio broadcasts. We are shown the life she leads now that she is without a pack and how she is dealing with it. Kitty gets a summons to appear before a Senate committee in regards to all things supernatural. And before she knows it she is caught up in the midst of a bunch of shady characters.This book was so much better than the 1st book of this series in my opinion. Kitty is portrayed as a stronger and more confident person than she was in the first one and the changes to her character are realistic ones. She still can be submissive but she has learned to stand on her feet more and that made the book more enjoyable for me. I'm interested in seeing her grow even more in the 3rd book and am now looking forward to reading it sooner rather than later. All in all, I recommend this one!
    • 4/5
      Kitty is travelling the US, broadcasting as she goes. Heading for Washington having been summoned to a Senate Hearing on behalf of supernaturals. She's gone from being an anonymous voice to being a known celebrity. The master vampire of the city extends her help, there's a sexy Brazilian were-jaguar and there's a bible thumping senator who wants her and her kind destroyed or contained.It's fun, Kitty grows during the book and you can see her looking back at the actions and regretting some of them. A lot of the situations are quite well drawn and as realistic as they could be. I found it entertaining and absorbing and look forward to more in this series.
    • 5/5
      Kitty Norville, the only "known" werewolf in the country and host of the radio phenomena show called "The Midnight Hour," finds herself being summoned to appear before a Senate committee that is about to decide on the future funding of the Center for the Study of Paranatural Biology, a little known lab run by the mysterious man named Dr. Flemming that keeps calling in to Kitty's radio program. It's literally an offer that she can't refuse, barring a contempt of Congress citation, so Kitty heads to DC with her lawyer, Ben to give her first-hand testimony about what it's like to be a werewolf. Between the "Men in Black" that shanghai her upon her arrival and the intensity of the Master Vampire of the City, Alette, who insists that Kitty accept her hospitality and stay in her home for the duration of her trip, it isn't long before Kitty suspects she's in way over her head. Being welcomed by the were community of DC is great, and meeting the wickedly handsome were-jaguar from Brazil are perks she didn't expect, but this trip is going to force Kitty to the brink of a precipice she never thought she'd have to face.This series is very well written and easy to read, while being interesting enough to keep me turning the pages. I'm looking forward to the next one.
    • 4/5
      DJ Kitty has gotten herself into quite a mess this time. She has to go before the senate and gets stopped by the Men in Black on her way to DC. The proceed to take her to a Vampires house where they say she will be protected from those of her own kind in the area. She decides to trust them, then proceeds to go out and about on her own and finds herself into more than she realized she was going to get into. This book was great and I won't go anyfurther as I don't want to put spoilers out there. But I am really enjoying the series thus far. So off to read the next one.
    • 4/5
      Not the most sophisticated writing in the world, but the characters and the story are cute and often poignant. She asks the hard questions about life as something more than human. A great paranormal series.
    • 4/5
      Not as strong as the first but still highly entertaining. The legal and scientific references give inevitability a stronger foothold in Kitty's world.
    • 3/5
      Another fun, dare I say, 'romp' with Kitty the celebrity werewolf.
    • 2/5
      This was awful, completely different from the first in the series. It feels like it was written by someone else. It was boring and nothing happened until near the end. There would be a moment when you thought there was danger or action and it would be over in a paragraph. There were no twists or surprises; everyone and everything was exactly what they seemed from the beginning and I figured out the ending within a couple of chapters of beginning the book. She was consistently saved from non-danger by men except the one time that it made no sense why she wasn't helped before she escaped.

      I have more to say but right now I'm too irritated. I'll write a proper review if I feel like it later.
    • 3/5
      One of those books where you enjoy it while you're reading it, but after you're done, you wonder what really happened. Still, a fun read and goes into wonderful detail about the way the supernatural community works.
    • 4/5
      Kitty Norville is back and still rushing into things headfirst in her usual fashion. I suspect this is going to be one of those series you will either love or hate and I am loving it. Quickly and nonstop read. Not a whole lot to say without spoilers or repeating what the goodreads blurb already says. She does get a healthier love life than the abusive pack stuff that was in first book, still in the fade-to-black category. Familiar characters from first book (the bounty hunter, the lawyer, staff on her radio show, etc.) and new ones (a mix of unexpectedly vivid, 3d ones and a few strictly in the background ones--I mention because this author is quite good at using a few words or paragraphs to bring someone almost to life for the reader). Avoided my two recent pet peeves of endlessly recapping previous book and making up or finding really esoteric words to use. (seriously, I don't mind expanding my vocabulary but lately have gotten paranormal/fantasy authors who have done stuff that make for very odd reading unless you go buy the esoteric dictionary/thesaurus/reference from which they got or adapted the odd words).
    • 2/5
      This was fun. A lot of urban fantasy deals with preternatural creatures living under human laws, but in this one the werewolf protagonist is called to testify before a senate committee. It's a juxtaposition of real and fantasy that no other book I've read has quite matched. That said, the remainder of the plot is quite predictable and the characters not engaging enough to make up for it. The most interesting sub-plot which involves Elijah Smith, a religious cult leader who claims to be able to cure vampires and lycanthropes, goes by so fast you'll miss it if you blink, which is a real shame as I thought it had some serious potential.Ah, well. Like its predecessor, a fun novel to while away a summer afternoon, but not much depth.
    • 3/5
      In the second installment in the Kitty Norville series, Kitty the werewolf has left, or been driven out of, her hometown. Though her life as a lone wolf seems to be wearing on her, she enjoys being in charge of some of her own destiny in the form of her weekly radio show. This liminal existence is thrown off when she receives a subpoena to appear before a Congressional committee - one that promises to affect the lives and statuses of all supernatural beings in America.This book did not live up to the possibilities I saw in the prequel. While Kitty grows into her own in the first book, she cannot decide on how to approach her own self-liberation or empowerment. This indecision on the protagonist does not mesh well with the decision of the author to introduce some fairly big issues in this second novel, such as supernatural beings and the government, their use or abuse in the military, and the place and morals of power. Other similar novels (such as Briggs' werewolf series, or that by Wilkes) benefited from a more focused set of problems (a murder investigation, etc.) through which the protagonist is able to explore this supernatural world and how it fits into the America with which we are familiar, though the issues in the end often end up being just as heady. The vanquishing of the bad guys was also a bit anticlimactic, making the ending feel just like the next step in the story, not an actual end. This gives the book too much of a serial feel for me, not as if it was the next in a series, but as though it was an episode - nice in magazines and tv shows, but not my favorite thing to find in books. Perhaps this series will continue to gradually mature with its heroine, but I'm not in a hurry to continue it. Kitty's story is an easy and entertaining enough beach read, but nothing I would go out of my way to find.
    • 5/5
      Barely escaping Denver, Colorado with her life on the closing pages of Kitty and the Midnight Hour, Kitty Norville takes to the road. As Kitty Goes to Washington opens, Kitty is drifting aimlessly around the United States broadcasting her newly syndicated, late-night radio show from a different city each week. When she receives an unexpected call informing her she’s been subpoenaed by a Senate hearing into the Center for the Study of Paranatural Biology chaired by her Bible-thumping nemesis Senator Duke, Kitty heads for the murky political waters of Washington, DC. Plunging into a city full of international paranaturals, Kitty finds herself surrounded by unfamiliar -- and scary -- politics and games that seem to be governed by bizarre rules. As she enters the city she is stopped and "offered" the hospitality of the city's vampire mistress. Not sure why she needs a vampire's protection, she is further puzzled by the actions of Dr. Paul Flemming. Just a few weeks ago he was eager to share information with her, now he keeps her at a disconcerting distance just when she needs the information he is hiding. And meeting a were-jaguar in a club for were-creatures only proves that Kitty must figure out the undercurrents in both the paranatural and political worlds if she wishes to escape with her freedom -- and her life. Carrie Vaughn has maintained her delightful tone in this second Kitty novel. Not quite a paranormal romance nor truly just a fantasy novel, Vaughn’s novels sit somewhere in between. Her writing strength is in creating an alternate reality that looks and sounds like modern day America, the only difference being Vampires, Were-Creatures and other creatures “of the night�? actually do exist. Kitty deals with issues of identity, loneliness, and career ambitions as any other young professional woman does with the added difficulty of being without a pack and surviving as a lone werewolf.Old friends reappear in this second adventure helping to quickly move the action into comfortable territory - Cormac the hit man, Ben the lawyer and Matt, Kitty’s faithful sound-man. Once again Carrie Vaughn has included a “playlist�? in the acknowledgements and she has picked the perfect tunes to accompany Kitty’s new adventure; songs like Pink Floyd’s “Us and Them,�? Shriekback’s “Nemesis�? and Peter Gabriel’s “Games Without Frontier.�? I was inspired to go hunting through my CD’s to put together the mix to listen to while sharing Kitty’s adventure.Packaged with this second Kitty Norville adventure is the short story “Kitty meets the Band.�? Carrie Vaughn has already signed a contract for books three and four; Kitty and the Wolf Moon’s Curse (Spring 2007) and Kitty and the Silver Bullet (Fall 2007) and this reader for one is eagerly awaiting both.
    • 4/5
      3 1/2
      I liked this one also. I just found part of it unlikely to happen but take it with a grain of salt. Still it was entertaining. Kitty gets called to testify at a senate oversight committee on whether funding should continue on the medical study that had been classified before Kitty was outted as a werewolf. Really all, but the contentious zealot religious fanatic Senator, Senator Duke, of the panel doesn't take it very serious. It seems that most still don't believe that the supernatural exist even though the scientist that had been studying them testifies to that fact.

      Kitty comes to Washington and meets the vampire faction and then the were/ lycanthrope faction which are very different than what she has been a part of so far. She is attracted to a were-panther.

      This has politic intrigue and without spoilers, people try to influence the panel by force. A side story of the reverend Elijah from the 1st book is concluded which was satisfactory for me.

      What didn't work for me after capturing Kitty, these people would not have allowed the transmission of a program on her behalf. I understand that the report is filming live, but there would be no reason for the other persons in the room to allow him to change his type of transmission. It only puts them at a disadvantage and gives her a voice. Duke's armed guards wouldn't have allowed it, IMO. Still I took it as, they did not want to lose the feed and the reporter wanted more. was her keeping control in a situation where all control in a situation where that was nearly impossible.

      Quick read, still no my favorite but a good series all the same. I liked this book slightly better than the last.
    • 3/5
      Though not a 'literary' piece of writing by any means, it was a pleasant enough way to pass a few hours, and I do like the main character. The book was a little slow at the start but the pace picked up in the second half. It is, perhaps, a touch weaker than the first book in the series, but not enough to put me off reading more.
    • 4/5
      I like the way this series defies convention and expectation. It doesn't take the lazy plotting option, or the one with the most violence and dramatic fireworks. Instead, it leans toward humanistic resolutions, and thoughtful meditations on what it means to be human, filtered through questions about what it means to be supernatural. This book took a while to find its stride, but the second half was absolutely solid.
    • 4/5
      Kitty goes to Washington, DC to testify before Congress about the subject of her radio show. She is a werewolf, and her radio show takes call-in questions about, and sometimes from, the more supernatural citizens. The Senator that requested her presence is a Bible-thumper looking for political power.Along the way she meets Alette, the female Vampire Master of the City, a sexy were-jaguar, and solves the mystery of the tent-show leader she met in the first book. A good, fun read.
    • 4/5
      DJ Kitty has gotten herself into quite a mess this time. She has to go before the senate and gets stopped by the Men in Black on her way to DC. The proceed to take her to a Vampires house where they say she will be protected from those of her own kind in the area. She decides to trust them, then proceeds to go out and about on her own and finds herself into more than she realized she was going to get into. This book was great and I won't go anyfurther as I don't want to put spoilers out there. But I am really enjoying the series thus far. So off to read the next one.
    • 3/5
      I liked this so much better than the first book. The first book was super-triggery for me, with Kitty's submissive nature and the sex-dominance-control thing going on in her pack. This book was Kitty learning how to be Kitty and I kind of like her when she's on her own. This book is enough for me to look forward to picking up book 3 and reading it.

      Kitty's in DC to testify before a Senate committee. Her lawyer, Ben, is there with her, and Ben turns out to be kind of a cool guy, definitely the rock Kitty needs. I worried for a while that Kitty was forming her own super team with all the people she was picking up--the reporter who knows magic, the psychic channeler--but it seems only one of those might reappear in a good way.

      Vampires become a little more, well, human, after meeting the Mistress of the City whose human servants are all her descendents. She cares for them and does not live surrounded by other vampires, preferring not to bring over anyone who doesn't fully understand the life. I liked her. She and Kitty have a little bit of a touching scene about jewelry which for Kitty and maybe the vampire was more about having a little bit of what passes for normalcy in their lives.

      I also liked the club of weres Kitty discovers through her were-jaguar sex partner. All sorts of weres hang out there, not just wolves, and they say that DC's international flavor is the reason for this. There are no packs there, but the club seems to be some sort of were embassy, so to speak. Kitty feels at home there and she needs that.

      Now for the disappointing part. Elijah Smith, the faith healer from the first book, is back in this one. He's working with Senator Duke and testifying before the committee. He's just as terrifying and mysterious as ever. And then a page later we find out what he is, a page after that he's conquered and gone. Um, what? Waste of a character. He could have been a book of his own.

      The big thing of this book is what I'm going to call Kitty's first TV appearance. I'm not sure why that was a good thing to do at this point in the series or even what purpose it serves. I'm hoping that comes clear in the next book.
    • 4/5
      4.5 stars. I love this series.
    • 4/5
      In this second book of Kitty Norville, the werewolf DJ who runs a midnight talkshow on the the supernatural, Kitty is called to testify at a congressional hearing about the supernatural, hence the title. In Washington she is forced to accept the hospitality of the local vampire master, and while there she gets to meet other types of weres.While waiting for her turn to testify she confronts the charismatic leader of a religious sect claiming to be able to cure weres and vampires of their afflictions.She also pursues a governmentally employed doctor who researches the vampire and were diseases, but she ends up being the one pursued in her werewolf capacity. She is used to generate funding for the research, and to start a witchhunt on the supernatural.This series follows a victim as she starts to take control of her own life, and describes the sacrifices as well as the victories of the process. Kitty is a realistic character whose emotions and reactions seems real. She is not some powerfull hero who barges into danger, and her bravery is as much in overcoming her fear and victimisation as it is confronting the dangers that threatens her.This series is the only one of this type of urban fantasy that takes place in the time when the supernatural emerges into the mundane world. Most stories of this type are set in worlds where the supernatural and the mundane has coexisted in the same way for a while - either openly or in secret. Kittys position as a frontrunner or catalyst for the general acceptance of vampirism and shapeshifters as real, as well as her personal development adds an extra dimension to this well written and fastpaced story.
    • 3/5
      Loved the first book in this series. But it lost me on the second.
    • 4/5
      As always I enjoyed Carrie Vaughns book. She has a way of keeping throughly locked in and wanting to find out what happens next. In this one Kitty goes up against 3 main problems and comes out golden.I enjoy the whit and intrigue she always manages to get into each book. Go Kitty I love these books.
    • 3/5
      I'm feeling better about Kitty's adventures all the time, although the creepy shit the government pulls gives me the holy heebie jeebies and feels all too real. I hope she continues to kick butt and gather people around her. I am deeply amused by Kitty's complete embrace of tourist opportunities, and strangely, I really like her lawyer.
    • 5/5
      A terrific read! I liked this one even better than Kitty and the Midnight Hour, the first in the series. Kitty runs a late-night talk radio show called The Midnight Hour. Up until now, many humans still believe her show is some kind of spoof; they simply can't bring themselves to believe supernatural creatures like vampires, werewolves, and other shapeshifters actually exist. However, having become somewhat of a celebrity now, and kind of a resident expert, Kitty's called upon by the Senate to testify at a hearing which would bring the supernaturals to light and be legally recognized by the governmentBut her trip to D.C. has brought her face-to-face with a number of other interesting characters, some of them seeming quite friendly, like a über-hot Brazilian were-jaguar *roaw* and the vampire mistress of the city, and others not quite so. And as a dirty politician and a sketchy doctor set her up to take a major fall, help comes from unexpected places.But this is Kitty! As much as she'd normally like to stay in the background, and her wolf rather hide than fight, her determination not to pushed around anymore gives her the strength to overcome anything which comes her way! Kitty is definitely a friend every girl would love to have: a soft lovable side, combined with a strong and determined determined tough side. I eagerly await the next in the series!
    • 5/5
      I'm still having a little bit of cognitive dissonance with this book because "the public" doesn't act (about the revelation of vampires, werewolves, etc) the way I think they would act. But once I stopped expecting people to act in a certain way I enjoyed this. I with Kitty could just settle down with some pack members and stuff. I found myself wishing she'd stay in DC.
    • 4/5
      I generally prefer vampires to werewolves, but I really like the world Vaughn has created. I like that weres are not necessarily wolves. A light, fun read.
    • 5/5
      What would happen if the world found out the supernatural existed? This is one of the first series I read that takes the reader through the revelation and the results of it.