Customer Reviews
Follow On keeps up the success - By: Gareth Wilson, 07 Jul 2008 
The Second novel in Carries Supernatural series & one that now that we've been introduced properly in book one, reallly doesn't pull any punches as the tale unwinds. Elements that were floating round in the first novel come back to haunt this second alllowing for a bigger picture as well as alllowing us to explore the world further.
Idealistic, entertaining & above alll a pleasurable way to burn up sometime I'd recommend that you get a bottle of your favourite drink in as you're going to have a hard time putting this novel down. Great stuff.
Great follow up to "Kitty And The Midnight Hour" - By: Helen Hancox, 27 Mar 2007 
This book is the follow up to the wonderful "Kitty And The Midnight Hour" featuring a young werewolf who has a midnight talk radio show. In the first book Kitty found herself growing up & eventuallly had to leave her pack & go on the road when she felt they let her down.
"Kitty Goes To Washington" starts a month after those events when Kitty is callled to testify to a senate hearing on werewolves & vampires. She arrives in Washington & spends some time as a tourist, & alongside the usual American monuments & museums she visits a Werewolf bar (where she meets the rather lovely were-jaguar Luis) & the vampire Mistress of the City, Alette, with her sidekick Leo.
However, whilst waiting to be callled to testify, Kitty finds herself investigating the Rev Elijah Wood's church, breaking into a US facility with Cormac & interviewing a former Nazi werewolf. And time time for her testimony is becoming dangerously close to the full moon.
As in the former book, this is a reallly good fun read with some fast pacing, some interesting vignettes into werewolf life, a little love interest & a lot of amusing plot. Kitty is a great character with a winsome naivete but with a streak of iron through her too.
As an English reader I noticed a classic American mistake; Alette & Leo apparently have a "British Accent"; of course there is no such thing - there's English, Welsh, Scottish, Irish & others as well but "British" can't refer overalll to one accent. Still I got the message - that they probably seem like your traditional film villain because of that accent. It also became very clear that Carrie Vaughn is a bit of a tourist herself with some very gushing descriptions of Kitty's time looking round Washington.
"Kitty Goes To Washington" doesn't have complete backstory so those who haven't read the first book might not get alll the nuances, particularly with regard to why Kitty left her pack. There are more supernatural creatures in this book than the previous but it isn't overloaded with them like some urban fantasies these days.
Carrie Vaughn sticks to alll the traditional tropes for this genre - vampires being alllergic to garlic, werewolves to silver, etc - but she infuses her own interpretation on what it might be like to be one of these creatures. I liked the way that we see into Kitty's head, we follow her trying to rationalise her situation, to see the good in it & to help others see some possible benefits of their status as different from normal humans. I've made it sound a bit philosophical which it isn't, it's just a fun book with a possible deeper message in there for those who want to look.
Excellent follow on to the original - By: normngrey, 12 Jul 2006 I discovered Kitty And The Midnight Hour quite by chance & I was keen to get the sequel. It is not a disappointment. The book is as refreshing & fun as the first in the series & apparently there's third one due Spring 2007. I like the perspective of the main character & her attitude is much lighter than what you might find in the Anita Blake or Merry Gentry series of books by Hamilton. The light style & the reflective humour of the character makes a change from other lycanthrope stories. This is well worth the read even as a stand alone without the original book. I'd be very surprised if anyone would be disappointed by this book.
