Kitty's House of Horrors by Carrie Vaughn

Synopsis from Goodreads.com

Talk radio host and werewolf Kitty Norville has agreed to appear on TV's first all-supernatural reality show. She's expecting cheesy competitions and manufactured drama starring shapeshifters, vampires, and psychics. But what begins as a publicity stunt will turn into a fight for her life.

The cast members, including Kitty, arrive at the remote mountain lodge where the show is set. As soon as filming starts, violence erupts and Kitty suspects that the show is a cover for a nefarious plot. Then the cameras stop rolling, cast members start dying, and Kitty realizes she and her monster housemates are ironically the ultimate prize in a very different game. Stranded with no power, no phones, and no way to know who can be trusted, she must find a way to defeat the evil closing in . . . before it kills them all.

My review:

Wowzers! Where on earth does Carrie Vaughn keeping getting these fantastic ideas from for this series? This book was amazing and this series is fast becoming one of my very favourites!

In this book (#7 in the Kitty Norville series), Kitty is asked to appear in a TV reality programme with a difference- all of the participants are celebrity supernaturals. There's Kitty, Tina from Paranormal PI, Jeremy, a psychic whom Kitty met a few books back, Odysseus Grant, the magician, Lee, a were-seal, Jerome, a werewolf American wrestler, a couple of vampires and their human, Ariel, another radio show host with a similar programme to Kitty's and a sceptic called Conrad. The idea is that over the course of a couple of weeks in a very remote hunters' cabin near the woods, they will all convince Conrad that supernaturals do exist. Everything is being recorded on camera with some situations set up deliberately.

Kitty develops a bad feeling after Tina uses her ouija board and soon that bad feeling comes true. The programme turns into more of a horror movie, with various people being killed and injured and the supernaturals fighting for their lives. And all this time cameras are still rolling...

Kitty, of course, survives all, although with many following nightmares and the bad guys are eliminated to put it bluntly! I totally loved the constant feeling of terror once they all realised what was going on. Despite everything, Kitty manages to stay strong and everyone expects her to lead the group and know what to do. She doesn't, so starts thinking about Cormac and what he would do in this situation. Knowing what a werewolf hunter would do helps the whole situation a little bit.

This series just keeps getting better and better. I love Kitty's character - she's strong, determined, a survivor, completely cares about others in her "pack" and will do anything to ensure their safety and her own.