{"id":8909,"date":"2017-03-13T13:03:17","date_gmt":"2017-03-13T17:03:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/?p=8909"},"modified":"2021-12-16T09:07:44","modified_gmt":"2021-12-16T14:07:44","slug":"kitty-steals-the-show-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/8909","title":{"rendered":"Kitty Steals the Show"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kitty Steals the Show<\/a><\/em> (2012) Carrie Vaughn<\/a><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Kitty, Ben, and Cormac are all headed to London. Kitty and Ben to attend the First International Conference on Paranatural Studies, Cormac to look for Amelia’s family.<\/p>\n

Luckily, Kitty has friends across the ocean, including Emma, Allete’s great(s)-granddaughter, and Tyler and Schumacher representing the US government’s interests.<\/p>\n

We also meet some very interesting people, and get a look at how Old World vampires treat others (ie, not very well).<\/p>\n

One of the characters I especially liked was Ned, the Master of London.<\/p>\n

\u201cOf all the secrets I could keep, the ones about myself are the least useful.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

He was a window into an amazing time and place\u2014 and I didn\u2019t know where to start. So I teared up and tried to wave away the burst of emotion. Everyone was staring at me and all I really wanted to do was cry from the wonder of it all. <\/p>\n

\u201cIs she okay?\u201d Emma asked Ben. <\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t know,\u201d he said. \u201cI\u2019ve never seen her like this.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cI get this reaction quite a lot,\u201d Ned said cheerfully. I imagined it was one of the reasons he didn\u2019t bother keeping his identity secret\u2014 he\u2019d been a celebrity his whole life, why stop just because he\u2019d become a vampire?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I think that is one of the things I like best about this series–is coming back to the idea that if vampires have lived for centuries, then they have to have met at least some important historical figures–and they certainly can tell us more about the times in which they lived than any history book.<\/p>\n

\u201cI will have Shakespeare, Marlowe, and John Donne scholars camped on my doorstep for the rest of eternity. Do you have any idea what I\u2019d go through?\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I also liked the bits about the conference and just how technical and geeky it might get.<\/p>\n

When the lecture opened with a physics joke\u2014\u201c Vampires: alive or dead? Does Schr\u00f6dinger\u2019s cat walk among us?\u201d\u2014 I knew I was in trouble.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Otherwise, the story is roaring along with more machinations by Roman and\/or his people.
\nRating: 7.5\/10<\/strong><\/p>\n

Published by Tor<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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