This is the latest in the Kitty Norville series by Carrie Vaughn. Kitty is a werewolf with a radio talk show where she discusses paranormal life. It’s a pretty good series, at least the early books.
This is the 11th book in the series and among the weakest. There’s a lot of padding and most of the storylines just spin their wheels without going anywhere. I hate to speculate on motivations but it sure reads like a book written just to fulfill a contract. Except….
There is one really interesting character in this book. He is a vampire priest named Columban. That’s right, he’s an actual priest who’s also a vampire. He can’t wear a cross or handle holy water but he carries out missions for the Vatican and fights evil around the world. He shows up in the book to try to recruit Rick (the vampire master of Denver and a good friend of Kitty) to join a holy order of vampire priests. This is a pretty cool premise. Rick is a 500 year old vampire who was once a conquistador. He abandoned the Church he loved because he thought there was no place in it for a vampire. Now he’s offered the chance to rejoin the Church he never stopped loving.
I’d love to read a series of books about an order of vampire priests. Unfortunately, Carrie Vaughn isn’t the right person to write it. Anyway, I can’t give this book a recommendation. There’s just too much boring stuff to slog through to get to the one interesting character.