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REALITY BITES 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... read more

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  • Kitty Norville: Main Character, Radio Host of the Midnight hour, Alpha of a werewolf pack
  • Ben O'Farrell: Kitty's mate
  • Cormac Bennett: Ben's cousin, Bounty Hunter, been in jail for two years for man slaughter
  • Odysseus Grant: Magician in Las Vegas, has a box that leads to another world
  • Anastasia: A vampire contestant on the show
  • Jeffrey Miles: TV psychic, see's aura's, and speaks to the dearly departed
  • Tina McCannon: Psychic, part of the team on a tv ghost hunting show (Paradox PI)
  • Ariel: Priestess of the Night, the rival supernatural radio show host to Kitty's radio show
  • Conrad: a paranormal skeptic and a writer
  • Lee: an Alaskan state legislator and wereseal
  • Jeremy: second werewolf celebrity, a professional wrestler
  • Gemma: the winner of a vampire beauty pageant
  • Ron Valenti: One of the producers for the reality show.
  • Jerome Macy: Ex-boxer, pro wrestling and werewolf.
  • Dorian: blood donor to vampires Gemma and Anastasia, friend, human.
  • Gordon: Camera man.
  • Ricardo de Avila: Master Vampire of Denver.
  • Joey Provost: One of the producers for the reality show.
  • Audra: human, caller on Kitty's talk show,
  • Cabe: One of the producers for the reality show.
  • Natalie: Conrad's sister who died by drowning.
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  • “He could have blown us all up, but he wanted to do this face-to-face. He wanted to go down to the wire. I could see it in his eyes. Fucking maniac.”
    Kitty
  • “There's a war coming.And people like us can't hide from it if we're exposed, dragged into public. Even five years ago the police never would have considered entertaining the story we told them tonight. But now they must. This will continue.”
    Anastasia
  • “"All right. What almost killed you this time?"”
    Cormac
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First Sentence edit see section history

I knew if I stayed in the business long enough, I'd get an offer like this sooner or later.

Table of Contents edit see section history

Chapters 1-23 and an Epilogue

Glossary edit see section history

  • Attrition: 1. A rubbing away or wearing down by friction. 2. A gradual diminution in number or strength because of constant stress. 3. A gradual, natural reduction in membership or personnel, as through retirement, resignation, or death. 4. Repentance for sin motivated by fear of punishment rather than by love of God.
  • Dichotomies: 1. Division into two usually contradictory parts or opinions: "the dichotomy of the one and the many" (Louis Auchincloss). 2. Astronomy The phase of the moon, Mercury, or Venus when half of the disk is illuminated. 3. Botany Branching characterized by successive forking into two approximately equal divisions.

Series & Lists edit see section history

This is book 7 of 12 in Kitty Norville. (standard series)

Preceded by Kitty Raises Hell, and followed by Kitty Goes to War.

Authors & Contributors edit see section history

  1. Carrie Vaughn (Author)

Other Contributors:

  1. Craig White (artist) (Cover Artist) - Uncredited

First Edition edit see section history

Original Language: English
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Country: USA
Publication Date: January 2010
ISBN: 978-0446199551
Page Count: 304

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Notes for Parents edit see section history

Reading Level: Adults

Some sexual explicit scenes and violence

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More Books Like This edit see section history

   
  • Cry Wolf
  • Bone Crossed
  • Moon Called
  • Hunting Ground
  • Iron Kissed
  • Blood Bound
  • Silver Borne

Books with Additional Background Information edit see section history

   
  • Kitty and the Midnight Hour
  • Kitty Goes to Washington
  • Kitty Takes a Holiday
  • Kitty and the Silver Bullet
  • Kitty and the Dead Man's Hand
  • Kitty Raises Hell

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