{"id":1012,"date":"2009-02-26T10:12:23","date_gmt":"2009-02-26T15:12:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/?p=1012"},"modified":"2010-06-13T00:51:32","modified_gmt":"2010-06-13T04:51:32","slug":"kitty-goes-to-washington-by-carrie-vaughn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/?p=1012","title":{"rendered":"Kitty Goes to Washington by Carrie Vaughn"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kitty and all of her friends (plus a few enemies) return in Kitty Goes to Washington<\/em>.\u00c2\u00a0 One fear with a series is that a lot of information about the characters will be left out.\u00c2\u00a0 Vaughn keeps the reader up to speed on what happened in the first book without boring details.\u00c2\u00a0 In fact, she gives enough information to hook the reader into wanting to go back and read the previous book.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n

In Kitty Goes to Washington,<\/em> Kitty is asked to testify before the U.S. Senate.\u00c2\u00a0 The road trip is short since\u00c2\u00a0she’s\u00c2\u00a0left Denver, Colorado and taken her show on the road.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0In D.C. she meets a were-jaguar and comes under the protection of the city’s vampire mistress.\u00c2\u00a0 She makes some lifelong friends and enemies.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n

One quibble I\u00c2\u00a0initially had\u00c2\u00a0is how a minor enemy (an evangelical preacher) that appeared in the last book was dealt with in this one.\u00c2\u00a0 Thinking back on it, though, Vaughn handled it quite well.\u00c2\u00a0 She could bring back the character or his followers in a short story if she wished to explore his storyline further but he served his purpose and there was no point in dragging it out for another book (or two).<\/p>\n

It’s a good thing Vaughn decided Kitty needed to get out of Colorado.\u00c2\u00a0 As a DJ with a talk show about the supernatural Kitty can only draw on her experience and research to provide answers to her callers.\u00c2\u00a0 Expanding Kitty’s territory exposes her to new experiences and other supernatural beings.<\/p>\n

Vaughn included a playlist for this book just like with Kitty and the Midnight Hour<\/em>.\u00c2\u00a0 Here it is:
\nThe Watchmen, “Together”
\nPeter Gabriel, “Games Without Frontiers”
\nOingo Boingo, “No Spill Blood”
\nThe Clash, “Know Your Rights”
\nSuzanne Vega, “Tombstone”
\nShriekback, “Nemesis”
\nPet Shop Boys, “DJ Culture”
\nPink Floyd, “Us and Them”
\nAqua, “Doctor Jones”
\nPrince, “Kiss”
\nToo Much Joy, “You Will”
\nThe Clash, “(White Man) In Hammersmith Palais”
\nThe Beatles, “Across the Universe” (Let it Be. . .\u00c2\u00a0 Naked<\/em> version)
\nNew Order, “True Faith-94”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Kitty and all of her friends (plus a few enemies) return in Kitty Goes to Washington.\u00c2\u00a0 One fear with a series is that a lot of information about the characters will be left out.\u00c2\u00a0 Vaughn keeps the reader up to speed on what happened in the first book without boring details.\u00c2\u00a0 In fact, she gives… Continue reading Kitty Goes to Washington by Carrie Vaughn<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[24,106,121,107],"class_list":["post-1012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-review","tag-book","tag-carrie-vaughn","tag-kitty-goes-to-washington","tag-kitty-norville","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t