Kitty and the Dead Man's Hand

It seems like I'm always behind on my books now. This book came out in February and I'm just now getting to it. Normally, I would have dropped everything else, but for some reason I was wrapped up in other things. Maybe I was waiting for the immediate sequel that came out the next month or maybe I was werewolfed out with all the Patricia Briggs I had been reading, but I didn't pick it up until now.

KITTY AND THE DEAD MAN'S HAND is almost a trifle of a book. Compared with the previous novels, this one has the lightest plot. Kitty is heading to Las Vegas to get married and encounters some nice and not-so nice people. And that's about it. It is more of a set-up for the follow-on book and thus acts more as a step than an independent story. I enjoyed reading it, but really wanted there to be more.

All that said, I am plowing right into the next book, KITTY RAISES HELL. I expect it will be wonderful.

One last note - my wife saw the cover and thought it was smut. It's probably good that she never took a good look at the Patricia Briggs books I got from the library and just reaffirms my position that the publishers should be able to find a slightly different motif for urban fantasy covers than half-naked, curvy, tattooed women.