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walkitoutRecently, genre series fiction I had preordered showed up on my kindle. Yum.
After a brief visit to Dodge where Kitty, Ben and Cormac (they got permission from his parole officer) find a very, very skinny vamp that's been buried since burned the den of the rest of his group and a strange coin he was carrying, they're off to San Francisco's Chinatown to help Anastasia retrieve a Very Powerful Artifact so Roman won't get it.
In case that doesn't make it _perfectly_ obvious, the "Big Trouble" would be a reference to "Big Trouble in Little China".
Kitty meets a goddess and 2 gods. We learn more about Anastasia and Rick's history. We see more of Cormac/Amelia in action. Kitty wrestles with her feelings about becoming a werewolf leader against Roman and his minions.
When I started reading this series, it was mostly because Werewolf Named Kitty Doing Midnight Radio Talk Show was pretty awesomely high concept. Vaughn has metered out the supernaturals at a pretty good rate, without sliding into Star Trek territory (new device in every outing, even when an old one would have worked just fine). She is developing Kitty into an alpha and now into a major force in the supernatural world, without triggering any of my Mary Sue detectors (I'm sure this would annoy some people, but so far, I'm good with it). And Kitty continues to use her best weapon to good effect: Just Keep Asking Questions and Getting the Other Guy Talking.
I'll keep reading; the August entry is a collection of short stories.
I should perhaps add that while the Kurt Russell movie made me cringe when it came out, and has only continued to do so over the years (for different reasons), I did not find anything particularly cringeworthy about this book and its handling of Chinese culture. If your mileage varies, I would be obliged if you would help raise my consciousness.
After a brief visit to Dodge where Kitty, Ben and Cormac (they got permission from his parole officer) find a very, very skinny vamp that's been buried since burned the den of the rest of his group and a strange coin he was carrying, they're off to San Francisco's Chinatown to help Anastasia retrieve a Very Powerful Artifact so Roman won't get it.
In case that doesn't make it _perfectly_ obvious, the "Big Trouble" would be a reference to "Big Trouble in Little China".
Kitty meets a goddess and 2 gods. We learn more about Anastasia and Rick's history. We see more of Cormac/Amelia in action. Kitty wrestles with her feelings about becoming a werewolf leader against Roman and his minions.
When I started reading this series, it was mostly because Werewolf Named Kitty Doing Midnight Radio Talk Show was pretty awesomely high concept. Vaughn has metered out the supernaturals at a pretty good rate, without sliding into Star Trek territory (new device in every outing, even when an old one would have worked just fine). She is developing Kitty into an alpha and now into a major force in the supernatural world, without triggering any of my Mary Sue detectors (I'm sure this would annoy some people, but so far, I'm good with it). And Kitty continues to use her best weapon to good effect: Just Keep Asking Questions and Getting the Other Guy Talking.
I'll keep reading; the August entry is a collection of short stories.
I should perhaps add that while the Kurt Russell movie made me cringe when it came out, and has only continued to do so over the years (for different reasons), I did not find anything particularly cringeworthy about this book and its handling of Chinese culture. If your mileage varies, I would be obliged if you would help raise my consciousness.