Kitty Steals the Show (Kitty Norville #10) by Carrie Vaughn Tor Books (Aug 2012) | Paperback, 342 pages Urban Fantasy I’ve had a love hate relationship with Kitty. On the one hand she’s a nice character, loyal and caring, but on the other she’s not very interesting, and shall I say, rather dull. Plus I’ve always struggled with buying into her badass-ery. She’s never really shown a fierce side, never goes into battle all guns blazing. Most of the time she has all her friends with her before she can fight…

We’ve found some lovely new covers this week. Below are some of our favourites! We’ve kept the images nice and large so you can take a good look! Enjoy EARTH GIRL (#1) Release Date: Aug 2012 | Publisher: Harper Voyager | Genre: Dystopian YA | Artist: Unknown JANET EDWARDS ONLINE Website | Twitter | Amazon UK CAROLYN’S THOUGHTS: I think this UK cover is gorgeous. You are in no doubt what genre this is when you look at the cover. I love the sun shining behind the Empire State Building and the birds flying into the sky….

Kitty’s Big Trouble (Kitty Norville #9) by Carrie Vaughn Gollancz (UK, July 2011) Paperback, 307 pages Urban Fantasy Kitty Norville is back and in more trouble than ever. Her recent run-in with werewolves traumatized by the horrors of war has made her start wondering how long the US government might have been covertly using werewolves in combat. Have any famous names in our own history might have actually been supernatural? She’s got suspicions about William Tecumseh Sherman. Then an interview with the right vampire puts her on the trail of…

I love urban fantasy and I’ve wanted to read the Kitty Norville series for some time. So this month I will be reviewing all the books in the series, I also have a fantastic interview with the author, Carrie Vaughn, an interview with Kitty herself, a guest post from book cover designer, Nick Castle, and a fab giveaway! I hope you enjoy! This is the second part of my interview with the fab, Carrie Vaughn (click HERE for part 1). Thanks again to Carrie for answering my questions. As well as…

Kitty Goes to War (Kitty Norville #8) by Carrie Vaughn Gollancz (UK, Jan 2011) Paperback, 334 pages Urban Fantasy Kitty Norville, werewolf radio call-in show host, gets a call from an old friend at the NIH’s Center for the Study of Paranatural Biology, a friend with a problem, who doesn’t know where else to turn. Three Army soldiers who have recently returned from the war in Afghanistan are in custody at Ft. Carson in Colorado Springs. They’re also werewolves suffering from post traumatic stress, unable to control their shape-shifting, unable to…

Title: Kitty’s House of Horrors (Kitty Norville #7) Author: Carrie Vaughn Publisher: Gollancz (UK) | Grand Central Publishing (US) Publication Date: Feb 2011 (UK) | Jan 2010 (US) Paperback: 292 pages Genre: Urban Fantasy Source: Review copy from publisher Reviewed by: Carolyn RATING: 8/10 – brilliant, couldn’t put it down SUMMARY: Talk radio host and celebrity werewolf Kitty Norville has agreed to appear on TV’s first all-supernatural reality show. What she’s expecting is cheesy competitions and manufactured drama starring shapeshifters, vampires, and psychics. But what begins as a publicity stunt…

Title: Kitty Raises Hell (Kitty Norville #6) Author: Carrie Vaughn Publisher: Gollancz (UK) | Grand Central Publishing (US) Publication Date: Oct 2009 (UK) | March 2009 (US) Paperback: 311 pages Genre: Urban Fantasy Source: Review copy from publisher Reviewed by: Carolyn RATING: 7/10 – very good SUMMARY: Kitty and Ben thought they were done with Las Vegas, but it’s beginning to looks like Vegas isn’t done with them. A sadistic cult of lycanthropes and their vampire priestess have laid a curse on Kitty, revenge for her disrupting their rituals, and…

Title: Kitty and the Dead Man’s Hand (Kitty Norville #5) Author: Carrie Vaughn Publisher: Gollancz (UK) | Grand Central Publishing (US) Publication Date: Oct 2009 (UK) | Feb 2009 (US) Paperback: 282 pages Genre: Urban Fantasy Source: Review copy from publisher Reviewed by: Carolyn RATING: 6/10 – good SUMMARY: Kitty Norville, the country’s only celebrity werewolf, thinks she’s finally got her life sorted. Her radio show is as popular as ever, and she and her cute lawyer boyfriend are the alpha pair of Denver’s werewolf pack. Now she and Ben…

INTERVIEWER: Carolyn I love urban fantasy and I’ve wanted to read the Kitty Norville series for some time. So this month I will be reviewing all the books in the series, I also have a fantastic interview with the author, Carrie Vaughn, an interview with Kitty herself, a guest post from book cover designer, Nick Castle, and a fab giveaway! I hope you enjoy! Kitty Norville is Denver’s werewolf Alpha and DJ. She hosts a late night call-in radio show called The Midnight Hour where supernaturals can talk openly about…

Title: Kitty and the Silver Bullet (Kitty Norville #4) Author: Carrie Vaughn Publisher: Gollancz (UK) | Grand Central Publishing (US) Publication Date: March 2011 (UK) | Jan 2008 (US) Paperback: 326 pages Genre: Urban Fantasy Source: Review copy from publisher Reviewed by: Carolyn RATING: 7/10 – very good, leaning towards an 8/10 SUMMARY: Kitty Norville’s a late-night radio DJ, and her show, ‘Kitty’s Midnight Hour’, is really popular. She’s out of the closet now – the whole country saw her turn wolf on live national television. And she has a…

Title: Kitty Takes a Holiday (Kitty Norville #3) Author: Carrie Vaughn Publisher: Gollancz (UK) | Little Brown (US) Publication Date: March 2010 (UK) | July 2007 (US) Paperback: 303 pages Genre: Urban Fantasy Source: Review copy from publisher Reviewed by: Carolyn RATING: 7/10 – very good, leaning towards an 8/10 SUMMARY: Kitty never planned on turning wolf in public, let alone on nationwide TV, but now it’s happened, she needs some time to herself, to recover from the trauma – and to write her memoirs. A mountain cabin far from…

I love urban fantasy and I’ve wanted to read the Kitty Norville series for some time. So this month I will be reviewing all the books in the series, I also have a fantastic interview with the author, Carrie Vaughn, an interview with Kitty herself, a guest post from book cover designer, Nick Castle, and a fab giveaway! I hope you enjoy! I am so excited to welcome Carrie Vaughn to Book Chick City. This isn’t Carrie’s first visit but it’s always a pleasure to have her here! This is the…

KITTY GOES TO WASHINGTON (Kitty Norville #2) by Carrie Vaughn PUBLISHER: Gollancz (UK) | Warner Books (US) RELEASE DATE: April 2008 (UK) | July 2006 (US) FORMAT: Paperback, 321 pages GENRE: Urban Fantasy Celebrity werewolf and late-night radio host Kitty Norville prefers to be heard and not seen. So when she’s invited to testify at a Senate hearing on behalf of supernaturals, and her face gets plastered on national TV, she inherits a new set of friends, and enemies, including the vampire mistress of the city; an über-hot Brazilian were-jaguar;…

KITTY AND THE MIDNIGHT HOUR (Kitty Norville #1) by Carrie Vaughn PUBLISHER: Gollancz (UK) | Warner Books (US) RELEASE DATE: Jan 2008 (UK) | Nov 2005 (US) FORMAT: Paperback, 272 pages GENRE: Urban Fantasy Kitty Norville is a midnight-shift DJ for a Denver radio station?and a werewolf in the closet. Her new late-night advice show for the supernaturally disadvantaged is a raging success, but it’s Kitty who can use some help. With one sexy werewolf-hunter and a few homicidal undead on her tail, Kitty may have bitten off more than…

  Title: Discord’s Apple Author: Carrie Vaughn Publisher: Tor Fantasy Publication Date: June 2010 Hardcover: 299 Pages Genre: Urban Fantasy Source: Review Copy Reviewed by: Laura RATING: 6/10 – Good GOODREADS: When Evie Walker goes home to spend time with her dying father, she discovers that his creaky old house in Hope’s Fort, Colorado, is not the only legacy she will inherit. Hidden behind the basement door is a secret and magical storeroom, a place where wondrous treasures from myth and legend are kept safe until they are needed again….