I recently read
Long Time Listener, First Time Werewolf by Carrie Vaughn, which is an omnibus with her three Kitty novels (
Kitty and the Midnight Hour,
Kitty Goes to Washington, and
Kitty Takes a Holiday) along with the short story called "Kitty and the Band".
Kitty Norville is a pretty little blonde twenty-something girl, who is a fairly recent college graduate, a midnight shift radio DJ in Colorado, and a werewolf. She was attacked in recent years, and is still getting used to her new life and all of its implications. Which is cool - because, as she learns about her new life, we, the readers, can learn right along with her. But the main thing about Kitty is that she is a nice girl - whether she is human or wolf. There is a basic decency to Kitty, and that makes the books well worth reading, beyond the funness of the plot.
In the first book she is outed as a supernatural creature - right in the middle of her show. So she inadvertently becomes a spokesperson for weres, vampires, and other creatures that go bump in the night. As that spokesperson, she ends up going to Washington to testify before Congress (the second book), and eventually needing a break (the third book). Along the way she must fight evil every so often - whether supernatural or human - face the loss of friends (bad things do happen to good people in Kitty's world) - and help out people who are unexpectedly dealing with a supernatural world they are ill equipped to function in.
I have been reading a lot of crappy paranormal fantasy/horror type stuff lately - so thank God for authors like Carrie Vaughn, Kelley Armstrong, and Patricia Briggs - who make the genre fun and worth reading!
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