Enemy of Entropy

More Fun Reading from Carrie Vaughn

25 November 2007, 11:21 pm. 3 Comments. Filed under Reading.

I really needed another fic­tion author to fol­low, right? But I’ve seen this series of books about a were­wolf named Kitty, and I finally got a chance to read them. I fin­ished the first, Kitty and the Mid­night Hour, today and jumped right into Kitty Goes to Wash­ing­ton. I have Kitty Takes a Hol­i­day all lined up and ready to go, but I’m already wish­ing that I had the next vol­ume, Kitty and the Sil­ver Bul­let. And that, my dears, is a sign of a fine author spin­ning a very good yarn, con­sid­er­ing all the other books wait­ing and ready on my shelf.

The library has the books labeled as hor­ror, but I’d put them in the para­nor­mal romance/​dark fan­tasy cat­e­gory. Hap­pily, the “romance” part isn’t the most sig­nif­i­cant one, and doesn’t get in the way of good plot. There was a moment today when I won­dered if ">Vaughn and Kim Har­ri­son had shared a brain to a small extent, but they’ve dealt with a super­fi­cially sim­i­lar issue in very dif­fer­ent ways.

If it weren’t for the fact that I just finally got done with my school assign­ments for the week, and must get up when Sam does in the morn­ing, I’d prob­a­bly be sit­ting up reading!

Now I really need to find a source for these short sto­ries, though. Any of you have the rel­e­vant mag­a­zine issues?

3 Comments »

  1. avatar Satyr. 26 November 2007, 9:33 am

    Yeah, Car­rie Vaughn is one of my new favorites. Of all of the “badass chick who’s really a werewolf/​ vampire/​ vampire-​​hunter/​ witch/​ shaman/​ what­ever” authors, she’s by far the best, IMHO.

    New authors? Have you tried Storm Con­stan­tine? Cath­erynne Valente? Jacquline Cary? Robert Hold­stock? Francesca Lia Block? George R.R. Mar­tin? James Reese? If you’ve missed any of the above, check ‘em out, and enjoy!

  2. avatar Hope. 26 November 2007, 7:33 pm

    You temptress you! I don’t need any more books to read. Really. I don’t.

  3. avatar cyn. 26 November 2007, 9:42 pm

    Hi, Satyr! I like Kitty much bet­ter than, say, Betsy in the “Undead” series (another blonde, though Vaughn said she couldn’t think of any blonde heroes other than Buffy). She calls her­self whiny, but she isn’t nearly as annoy­ing as Anita Blake when she’s off on one of her guilt trips. The fact that her courage is per­sonal, rather than com­ing from her added abil­i­ties as a were­wolf, makes her more of a hero in my mind.

    I think I may have read a short story by Con­stan­tine at some point, but I’m fairly sure I haven’t read any nov­els. Which do you sug­gest? I’ve never heard of Valente, Hold­stock, or Reese before, but I’ll look them up.

    I read the first two of Carey’s Kushiel nov­els, but Sam said the third isn’t Cyn-​​safe. He offered to mark off the parts I shouldn’t read, but I really can’t trust myself to stop even though I know I should. I HATE miss­ing any­thing, but I’ve got way too much real-​​life night­mare fod­der, and seri­ously can’t han­dle any­thing that graph­i­cally describes child abuse.

    I’ve read sev­eral of Block’s nov­els, and I think my daugh­ter owns almost all of them. I enjoyed the Weet­zie Bat books, but just can’t get into Vio­let and Clare for some reason.

    I start­ing read­ing the Wild Card books back when they first started, but found them ter­ri­bly dark and just not sat­is­fy­ing, for some rea­son. I’m not a big super­hero fan, and I can­not stand hav­ing heroes die. I thought they’d gone away, ’til read­ing some­thing on Vaughn’s web site about her read­ing for a new anthol­ogy. That’s all that comes to mind right off when I think about Martin.

    Thanks for the recommendations!

 

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