2009 urban fantasy, fifth in the series. Kitty Norville, the
late-night DJ who has become the world's most famous werewolf, is
going to get married… in Las Vegas. So naturally she has to do a live
show there too. And that isn't even the problem…
Because there's more vampire politicking, and an old-school
magician who says "stay away from Them" without ever saying why, and
Them (an animal show – were those still a thing in 2009? – which seems
to be where all the werecreatures in Las Vegas are hiding)… and the
hotel where Kitty and Ben are staying is also hosting a gun convention
which has attracted all the werecreature-hunting mercenaries.
And then Ben vanishes, probably kidnapped, about an hour before the
wedding. (About half-way through the book, which is a bit late for the
action to start.)
What's really going on here, though, is Kitty, isolated from her pack,
working out under pressure who her actual friends are and who's just
making nice. Eventually she gets this right and everything shakes out
more or less as it should, though there are plenty of loose ends left
for future books to deal with.
It's… OK. I never really found the connection between Kitty and Ben
convincing (in spite of all the hot sex), and she seems to spend a lot
of time talking about other things when she's supposedly in a frenzy
to find him, but the writing is always enjoyable and Vaughn
effectively blends action and drama with light farce in a way that's
perilously hard to get right.
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