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Kitty Norville
Has anyone read the Kitty Norville series by Carrie Vaughn? if so, any good?
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02-17-2010, 09:39 PM | #2 |
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I enjoy that series, Jon, although I'm not sure if our reading tastes are compatible.
It's urban fantasy without being ultra-dark, with a bit of a romance (but it's not the main focus for most of the books). She's conflicted about being a werewolf (turned against her will, not born to it) and chooses to deal with it in by becoming a DJ to talk about the paranormal on a midnight weekly talk show. I liked that attitude. |
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I have. It's fairly typical urban werewolf fantasy, somewhere below Kim Harrison or Kelley Armstrong in quality, I'd say, but not as amateurish as a lot of what's out there. I'll happily read them if the price is right. (They're certainly better than another author's fantasy novel I just bought at Fictionwise because it was cheap...it opens in a mental hospital, the concept of which the author seems to have...issues...with, and has just changed scene to an opera house: "The second floor was circular, with a large entrance room several thousand feet wide"...)
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FYI - there are vampires in the books. In fact, vampires set up the initial conflict in the first book IIRC.
At least one of the books (Kittie goes to Washington, I think) is very much about the vamps. Have you read any of Patricia Briggs' werewolves? I like her better than Kelley Armstrong and at least as much as Kim Harrison (who's actually getting kind of stale on me)... |
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Same here, I like the Mercy books much better. Alpha & Omega's heroine is kind of wimpy, and the series suffers from the disadvantage of the characters having been introduced in a short story which a good proportion of the first book's purchasers hadn't read. Besides, "omega" already has a perfectly good definition in animal behavior, and it jars on me that Briggs tries to arbitrarily redefine it.
Edited to add: Anybody else like Ilona Andrews? She (they?) seems to give some original twists to urban vampire/werewolf fantasy in the Kate Daniels books - and her On the Edge isn't quite like anything else out there. Last edited by wayrad; 02-18-2010 at 07:33 AM. |
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There is a new Kim harrison book due on Feb 23, 2010. The title is Black Magic Sanction. It is another Rachel Morgan book. IT seems that because of the publisher mess, Amazon is actually holding back so they can offer this at a lower price.
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Great news. I've enjoyed that series despite it being YA. Her Hollows series does seem to be getting mired in angst lately. Edited to add: Oops, brain disconnect. For some reason I confused it with the Morganville Vampires series by the same author! Must be getting old. I'll probably try this one anyway; haven't quite given up yet.
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Oh, I see, sorry. I'm looking forward to the next Edge book too, and hoping it's as good as the first. (My favorite line: "Go brush your teeth, comb your hair, put on dry clothes, and get the guns. We're going to Wal-Mart.")
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I have read the first Kitty Norvel book and liked it. It does seem like it is half a step below the Harrison, but worth enjoyable. I also like everything I have ever read of Patricia Briggs. Devon Monk has a good "Magic in the ..." series too.
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