Debbie's Spurts

This reader's personal opinion, ©2012, all rights reserved.* 

This is becoming my go-to series for an enjoyable read with very likable character. I really enjoyed this book start to finish.

If you have not read previous books in series, there are some spoilers ahead. In this 5th entry in the Kitty Norville series, the action picks up after the marriage proposal ending of Kitty and the Silver Bullet.

Kitty's cancer-recovering Mom wanting the big wedding with plenty of sick/recovering-mom guilt pressure. Of course, Ben and Kitty are thinking City Hall--particularly after pricing all the big wedding items like photographer (somehow Kitty did not care for Ben's suggestion that a friend do--said friend being the police department's crime scene photographer). The package deals at Las Vegas sounded easier to still give Mom some sort of bigger wedding, then Kitty's station boss thought of a live TV show from Vegas (working during your wedding weekend ... hmmm), the Master Vampire of her city has an errand to his friend the Master Vampire of Las Vegas ... and they are off joined by Kitty's parents. 

Of course the station has her booked into same hotel as a gun convention with a lot of Cormac's werewolf hunting friends ... and just all kinds of craziness throughout the rest of the book like you'd expect from a Kitty book. No Cormac although mentioned; a couple of new female characters in the usual testosterone ooze about Kitty.

I had a few "red flag"/doubt moments before completely into swing of book. First few pages were a bit too sweet to read as a Kitty book (all the rose colored glasses approach to the wedding stuff and how uber wonderful Ben was), a creep scene where someone thought Kitty might actually miss being an abused submissive (did not turn into that 50-over-hyped-thing but worried me very briefly), ... all passed with further reading so the book rated a solid 4 stars for me. It ended on a note I may or may not like depending on next book.

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Ratings scale used in absence of a booklikes suggested rating scale:

★★★★★ = All Time Favorite 
★★★★½ = Extraordinary Book. Really Loved It.
★★★★☆ = Loved It.
★★★½☆ = Really Liked.
★★★☆☆ = Liked.
★★½☆☆ = Liked parts; parts only okay. Would read more by author.
★★☆☆☆ = Meh. Okay. 
★½☆☆☆ = Disliked but kept me reading in hopes would get better.
★☆☆☆☆ = Loathed It. Possibly DNF and a torturous read.
½☆☆☆☆ = So vile was a DNF or should have been. An "uploaded" word spew or collection that should not be dignified by calling itself a "published book." Author should take remedial classes for language written in until basic concepts like using sentences sink in. Is author even old enough to sign a publishing contract or do they need a legal guardian to sign for them? Cannot imagine anyone liking.