• Mass Market Paperback: 304 pages
• List Price: $7.99 US/$9.99 CDN
• Publisher: Grand Central Publishing; Original edition (January 4, 2010)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0446199559
• ISBN-13: 978-0446199551

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.

Kitty is offered a spot in a Reality TV Series which also has cast members from previous Kitty books (O. Grant, Tina, Jeffery) and a few new additions (2 Vamps, their human servant, a were-wolf,  a were-seal & a skeptic). The point becomes clear that they have one skeptic in the group that doesn’t believe any of them have paranormal abilities or are paranormals, so the shows premise must be to prove to Conrad that they are real. Soon it becomes clear that there’s another more terror filled plot when members of the house starting getting killed, the power goes out and there’s no phone service.

As a huge fan of the Kitty Series, I was really disappointed with Kitty’s House of Horrors (Book 7 in the series). I found a lot of the book was filler, character’s being introduced only to be killed off or reintroductions to characters that we know about already. The plot twists were easily determined, you knew who was doing the killing. It’s a darker version of Kitty, usually they are light-hearted with action but not this dark and not this many deaths. Maybe it’s a lead up to something bigger in the next book, but I just didn’t get into this book like I did the previous ones. There were a few funny moments, but over-all it was extremely dark.

There’s a little bit of Ben at the beginning and mentions of Cormac, very little romance since Kitty’s not with Ben for almost all of the story. But Cormac fans will have a bit of a surprise towards the end. There’s also mention of the “Long Game” and Roman, which I think will mean more in the next book. Mainly the book is Kitty and the cast trying to survive, with lots of deaths among them and lots of description.

My Rating: 3 out of 5

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