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Jane Yellowrock #9.1
Cat Fight
The witches and vampires of Bayou Oiseau are at war over a magical talisman - and Jane must figure out how to keep the mysterious artifact out of the covetous hands of the Master of New Orleans. From the Big Easy to the bad bayou, from the open road to a vampire's lair - with Jane Yellowrock, it's always a given: have stakes, will travel.
5 pages, Audible Audio
First published March 25, 2016
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Faith Hunter
94 books5,748 followersFaith Hunter's Junkyard Cats novella series is available in Audible, eBook, and "ridiculously expensive" (her words) trade paperback books at this time.
Faith's Jane Yellowrock series is a dark urban fantasy. Jane is a full blooded Cherokee skinwalker and hunter of rogue-vampires in a world of weres, witches, vampires, and other supernats. 15 books and several compilations of shorts
The Soulwood series is a dark-urban fantasy / paranormal police procedural /para-thriller series featuring Nell Nicholson Ingram, an earth magic user and Special gent of PsyLED. 6 books
Her Rogue Mage novels—Bloodring, Seraphs, Host, and the RPG Rogue Mage—feature Thorn St. Croix, a stone mage in a post-apocalyptic alternate reality.
Faith is a full time writer who finally hired a housekeeper when the dust bunnies multiplied, She bakes homemade bread and loves to cook.
Faith researches in great detail, and tries most everything her characters do. Research led to her life’s passions – jewelry making, orchids, Japanese maples, bones, travel, white-water kayaking, and writing.
Faith loves orchids. Her favorite time of year is when several are blooming. Pictures can be seen at her FaceBook page. And yes, she collects bones and skulls. She has a fox, cat, dog, cow skull, goat, a boar skull, a deer skull, (that is, unfortunately, falling apart) and the jawbone of an ass. Her prize skull is a mountain lion (legally purchased from a US tannery) hit by a car in the wild.
Her latest love is Japanese maples, and she has managed to collect over thirty.
She and her husband RV, traveling to whitewater rivers to kayak all over the Southeast. Whitewater Kayaking is her very favorite sport, discovered when she was researching her (Gwen Hunter) mystery book, Rapid Descent. She took a lesson and—after a bout of panic attacks from fear of being upside down trapped in a boat—discovered she loved the sport.
Under other pen names, notably, Gwen Hunter, she writes action adventure, mysteries, and thrillers. As Gwen, she is a winner of the WH Smith Literary Award for Fresh Talent in 1995 in the UK, and won a Romantic Times Reviewers Choice Award in 2008. As Faith, her books have been on the New York Times and USA Today Bestseller lists, been nominated for various awards and won an Audie Award with Khristine Hvam, among other awards. Under all her pen names, she has more than 40 books, anthologies, and complications in print in 30 countries.
For more, including a list of her books, see www.faithhunter.net , www.gwenhunter.com . To keep up with her daily, join her fan pages at Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/official.fait... and see her website blog at
www.faithhunter.net
Faith's Jane Yellowrock series is a dark urban fantasy. Jane is a full blooded Cherokee skinwalker and hunter of rogue-vampires in a world of weres, witches, vampires, and other supernats. 15 books and several compilations of shorts
The Soulwood series is a dark-urban fantasy / paranormal police procedural /para-thriller series featuring Nell Nicholson Ingram, an earth magic user and Special gent of PsyLED. 6 books
Her Rogue Mage novels—Bloodring, Seraphs, Host, and the RPG Rogue Mage—feature Thorn St. Croix, a stone mage in a post-apocalyptic alternate reality.
Faith is a full time writer who finally hired a housekeeper when the dust bunnies multiplied, She bakes homemade bread and loves to cook.
Faith researches in great detail, and tries most everything her characters do. Research led to her life’s passions – jewelry making, orchids, Japanese maples, bones, travel, white-water kayaking, and writing.
Faith loves orchids. Her favorite time of year is when several are blooming. Pictures can be seen at her FaceBook page. And yes, she collects bones and skulls. She has a fox, cat, dog, cow skull, goat, a boar skull, a deer skull, (that is, unfortunately, falling apart) and the jawbone of an ass. Her prize skull is a mountain lion (legally purchased from a US tannery) hit by a car in the wild.
Her latest love is Japanese maples, and she has managed to collect over thirty.
She and her husband RV, traveling to whitewater rivers to kayak all over the Southeast. Whitewater Kayaking is her very favorite sport, discovered when she was researching her (Gwen Hunter) mystery book, Rapid Descent. She took a lesson and—after a bout of panic attacks from fear of being upside down trapped in a boat—discovered she loved the sport.
Under other pen names, notably, Gwen Hunter, she writes action adventure, mysteries, and thrillers. As Gwen, she is a winner of the WH Smith Literary Award for Fresh Talent in 1995 in the UK, and won a Romantic Times Reviewers Choice Award in 2008. As Faith, her books have been on the New York Times and USA Today Bestseller lists, been nominated for various awards and won an Audie Award with Khristine Hvam, among other awards. Under all her pen names, she has more than 40 books, anthologies, and complications in print in 30 countries.
For more, including a list of her books, see www.faithhunter.net , www.gwenhunter.com . To keep up with her daily, join her fan pages at Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/official.fait... and see her website blog at
www.faithhunter.net
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March 30, 2016
The vampires, witches and humans of the Bayou have been feuding since before anyone can remember but after Jane brokered a peace things were looking up. Now they are back at each other's throats and it's all over a magical artefact.
Leo sends Jane to the Bayou to restore order and bring the warring parties to heel.
The Jane Yellowrock short stories and novellas have always been a bit of a mixed bag. Some of them really feel like scraps that should have stayed on the editing room floor. Others are brilliant and add both depth and insight into Jane Yellowrock's world.
Thankfully this is in the latter group and is a pretty damned amazing lead-in to Shadow Rites due out next week.
Leo sends Jane to the Bayou to restore order and bring the warring parties to heel.
The Jane Yellowrock short stories and novellas have always been a bit of a mixed bag. Some of them really feel like scraps that should have stayed on the editing room floor. Others are brilliant and add both depth and insight into Jane Yellowrock's world.
Thankfully this is in the latter group and is a pretty damned amazing lead-in to Shadow Rites due out next week.
July 5, 2018
“Cat Fight” occurs immediately after Dark Heir, which is Book 9 of the Jane Yellowrock series. I read it in the anthology, Blood in Her Veins: Nineteen Stories from the World of Jane Yellowrock.
July 7, 2016
Another exciting Yellowrock story. I love how the obstacles and the battles to overcome them never get boring, but are filled with unexpected details.
In this Jane has to go back to Bayou Oiseau to once again straighten out the bickering between the witches and vamps. She thinks it due to the vampire Romeo (Gabe) cheating on the witch Juliet (Shauna). But there's a bigger problem at the center of the conflict. A magical wreath.
Quick note: I like Edmund. I know Jane doesn't like the idea but I think he'd be great with the team.
Fave scenes: cool whip, Jane's statement of intent and hiding at Lucky's.
In this Jane has to go back to Bayou Oiseau to once again straighten out the bickering between the witches and vamps. She thinks it due to the vampire Romeo (Gabe) cheating on the witch Juliet (Shauna). But there's a bigger problem at the center of the conflict. A magical wreath.
Quick note: I like Edmund. I know Jane doesn't like the idea but I think he'd be great with the team.
Fave scenes: cool whip, Jane's statement of intent and hiding at Lucky's.
December 28, 2022
Not a terrible little short. I will admit I had trouble staying in this one, but I think I just struggle with short stories in general.
May 30, 2021
REREAD 2021
I have to admit that I kind of skimmed through this book this time around. It was OK, but I did zone out a couple of times. That may have been because of the book, or because of my own current health. And I find Hvam's voice very comfortable and soothing, so I've fallen asleep to it before.
I can't say I noticed any major character developments with this listen, other than some info about Edmund and how Jane reacts to things. it's not a bad book, just didn't do much for me this time around.
So I'm rounding it down to 3/5 star rating. It's still a good book, but nothing special, you know?
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Listened to as an audiobook.
A fast-paced and fun read, with a lot of action, and still a bit more of character development.
Just my cup of tea!
Original rating: 4/5 stars
I have to admit that I kind of skimmed through this book this time around. It was OK, but I did zone out a couple of times. That may have been because of the book, or because of my own current health. And I find Hvam's voice very comfortable and soothing, so I've fallen asleep to it before.
I can't say I noticed any major character developments with this listen, other than some info about Edmund and how Jane reacts to things. it's not a bad book, just didn't do much for me this time around.
So I'm rounding it down to 3/5 star rating. It's still a good book, but nothing special, you know?
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Listened to as an audiobook.
A fast-paced and fun read, with a lot of action, and still a bit more of character development.
Just my cup of tea!
Original rating: 4/5 stars
February 18, 2019
Cat Fight is an audio short story from the Jane Yellowrock series written by Faith Hunter and read by Khristine Hvam. It takes place after the events of the ninth novel, Dark Heir, has Jane Yellowrock once again plays mediator between the witches and vampires of the Bayou, Oiseau. It is a brand new short story written for Blood in Her Veins: Nineteen Stories from the World of Jane Yellowrock.
Cat Fight has Jane Yellowrock one again having to deal with the town and residents we first met in Cajun With Fangs. Leo Pellissier sends Jane Yellowrock back to the bayou when tales of valuable artifact has surfaced. Jane Yellowrock soon discovers that jealousy, miscommunication, spoiled children, and plain stupidity have the town once again on the verge of war. With the help of the Younger brothers and Edward Hartley, Jane Yellowrock has to lay down some hard truths while performing a little marital counseling.
Cat Fight is written and narrated rather well. It is wonderful to see the witches and vampires of the Bayou, Oiseau again. The peace that Jane Yellowrock has garnered in Cajun With Fangs had disintegrated again and it is up to her to broker the peace again. However, the Cajun accent while wonderful to listen to is rather difficult to read.
All in all, Cat Fight is a well written, but more importantly, it expanded the wonderful world that is the Jane Yellowrock universe.
Cat Fight has Jane Yellowrock one again having to deal with the town and residents we first met in Cajun With Fangs. Leo Pellissier sends Jane Yellowrock back to the bayou when tales of valuable artifact has surfaced. Jane Yellowrock soon discovers that jealousy, miscommunication, spoiled children, and plain stupidity have the town once again on the verge of war. With the help of the Younger brothers and Edward Hartley, Jane Yellowrock has to lay down some hard truths while performing a little marital counseling.
Cat Fight is written and narrated rather well. It is wonderful to see the witches and vampires of the Bayou, Oiseau again. The peace that Jane Yellowrock has garnered in Cajun With Fangs had disintegrated again and it is up to her to broker the peace again. However, the Cajun accent while wonderful to listen to is rather difficult to read.
All in all, Cat Fight is a well written, but more importantly, it expanded the wonderful world that is the Jane Yellowrock universe.
March 17, 2022
This is a continuation of the story "Cajun With Fangs". There is trouble in "paradise" when a wife finds her vampire husband "feeding" on a woman. There is a perceived sexual element and so a Witch/Vampire war is about to cut loose along with some religious elements from the local Catholic Church.
I removed a star because I just didn't understand the motivations of the person stirring up this conflict. Maybe if I read/listened to the book again I would understand. I reserve the right to change this review in the future.
I removed a star because I just didn't understand the motivations of the person stirring up this conflict. Maybe if I read/listened to the book again I would understand. I reserve the right to change this review in the future.
July 16, 2022
I'm not sure why but I didn't really like this one. I didn't feel a need revisit the bayou and really didn't feel like this moved any of the stories along. I am a little curious about what is going on with Edmund and hope they get a move on with revealing that soon instead of little hints here and there.
February 17, 2025
I love this one so much. It is laugh out loud funny in so many places. Back in New Orleans with the vamps and the witches. Throw in some voodoo and the characters from the past and this book is a rollicking good time.
May 25, 2018
Jane is sent back to the bayou to resolve another flair up between the vamps and witches. Love the characterization and could totally relate to wanting to smack the instigators of all the drama.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
October 31, 2019
I love Edmund and especially the way he has charmed Jane. My favorite line is when he smells Alex and says “ how can he stand to smell himself “
January 1, 2022
3.25 stars
September 3, 2022
Really loved it. Jane is always up for and to the challenge. Worth reading whenever you are ready.
November 7, 2022
3.5⭐️ not the best not the worst.
January 3, 2023
6 fantastico. Come back Jane. All is forgiven.
August 4, 2016
Jane Yellowrock one of my favorites continues to impress. This time Jane is tasked with keeping a magical artifact from Leo's, Master of New Orleans, hands. Between the witches, vampires, and Leo, she must determine who the rightful owner is and make sure it ends up there. Lots of background and story telling here; one must pay close attention. Great writing and as always Kristine Hvam is awesome.
July 13, 2016
Yeah, it was just so great to read this story! Loved seeing these characters again, and I loved the ending!
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