Synopsis from Goodreads.com
Kitty Norville, Alpha werewolf and host of The Midnight Hour, a radio call-in show, is contacted by a friend at the NIH's Center for the Study of Paranatural Biology. Three Army soldiers recently returned from the war in Afghanistan are being held at Ft. Carson in Colorado Springs. They're killer werewolves--and post traumatic stress has left them unable to control their shape-shifting and unable to interact with people. Kitty agrees to see them, hoping to help by bringing them into her pack.
Meanwhile, Kitty gets sued for libel by CEO Harold Franklin after featuring Speedy Mart--his nationwide chain of 24-hour convenience stores with a reputation for attracting supernatural unpleasantness--on her show.
Very bad weather is on the horizon.
My review:
Oh no it seems Carrie Vaughn has lost a bit of excitement in this book compared with the last 3/4 books in this series. Don't get me wrong, I enjoyed it, but the thrill just wasn't there.
2 subplots run alongside each other in this story. The first one involves a group a Green Beret soldiers, turned into werewolves courtesy of their captain, who then gets blown up, leaving the pack without a clear leader. They return from Afghanistan and get further and further out of control. Kitty is called in by Dr Schumacher to assist the army in capturing these men. She helps get the remaining 3 after the newly self-appointed alpha of the little pack kills some of the others for insubordination. Kitty then talks to them in prison and can see the potential in helping 2 of them. The alpha is far too aggressive and far too wolf to be helped. On the night of the full moon, she takes these 2 new wolves with her pack for a hunt and run, but one of them disappears to go and free the alpha from prison. Kitty, Ben and Tyler, the other soldier wolf, head up to the compound in the middle of a blizzard to try and intercept this other wolf before he can release the alpha and cause any more murders and mayhem. Unfortunately he has already been released and a few others have been killed in the process. Tyler comes to Kitty's aid and kills the alpha for her!
The weather is the second subplot. There is a wizard in town, who just so happens to own the Speedymart chain of stores. He is doing something to the stores and casting very nasty weather spells while he gets the hell out of there. It has been said that he was the one to cause Hurricane Katrina. With Kitty and Ben on the hunt for the missing werewolf, it is up to Cormac to work out what to do, which he does with the help of a witch who has somehow managed to merge with him and now resides in his body. Kitty enlists the help of her pack to stop the wizard's spell and soon enough everything is back to normal.
Tyler moves to Seattle to be near his family and Kitty meets the local werewolf pack there. Rick makes a brief appearance, but nothing really happens with him. And that's about it.
The book seemed to have a weaker storyline than the others. Although I felt that the idea of helping soldiers turned werewolves become more productive members of society was an interesting one (they have mentioned about using supernaturals in the army in previous books), I just thought this story really lacked the thrill of the chase as it were. The main 2 fight scenes involving Kitty, other members of her pack and the army wolves were quite tame and not really long enough.
And I do feel the title is a bit misleading too as I thought this book was going to be about Kitty and Rick going to war against Roman, which was brought up in the last book. Maybe that will come a bit later. This book didn't really have anything to do with Roman and the war between the vampire, although it was suspected that Roman was the one encouraging the Speedymart wizard to do what he was doing.
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