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Summary: The house fell flat
Review: The latest book in the Cat Who... series left me flat. It was definitely not up to the standard of the other books in the series. There was very little mystery in the whole thing- the reader knows who done it, the cat knows who done it, even Mr. Q knows who done it, but is made to stumble (or rather eat) his way through the book as if there is a mystery to solve. I kept hoping for something interesting to happen, but nothing ever did. A snoozer.
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Summary: Inane and Ragged
Review: This 25th installment in the "Cat Who" series proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that once a book series has made it to the best-seller lists, it can never die, even when the successive installments have no redeeming value. The book reads at first grade level, with very little imagery. Action is limited to the "and then he did this" variety. The plot is practically non-existent, swallowed up in repetitive visits to every restaurant in Pickax where nothing happens except unending consumption of coffee and pie. The characters, who were once rather interesting, have devolved into mere sets of mannerisms.
The cats are comatose.The title has no clear meaning or relevance, aside from a possible connection to an event that seemed stuck in for its cute factor. The writing is incredibly irritating, jumping inconsistently from third person narrative to Qwill's journal to excerpts from "Short and Tall Tales." This might not have been so grating had it been handled with anything like finesse, but each jump was simply announced with some phrase like: "this incident is better related through Qwill's personal journal." In my opinion, that kind of statement belongs in a writer's private notes, not in a published work. I really enjoyed the first eighteen or twenty of these books, but they have become too inane for words. The whitebread, utopian view of this rural community where every charity can sell out $300-a-plate fundraisers and every problem can be solved by applying to the K Fund has really begun to stick in my craw. I think a better book would involve shooting Q willeran through the head. The only mystery here is why I keep inflicting this series upon myself.
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Summary: A return to more familiar ground
Review: This book marks a return to the more familiar areas of Pickaxe and Mooseville as well as many favorite characters. Unlike the last book which took readers to an unfamiliar part of Moose County,in this book Ms Braun stays with the characters we like so well sprinkled among the new characters. Koko was his usual intelligent and charming self ,as was Qwill.The one jarring note was the frequent plugging of Long and Tall Tales which came out a few months ago. Another trend I enjoyed was the infrequent presence of Polly Duncan a character I feel adds nothing to the books except as a pedantic unfunny scold. Find Qwill a new lady!
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Summary: Disappointing
Review: This is my first (and last) venture into "The Cat Who..." series. I enjoy cats and thought it might be an amusing tale. I wasn't expecting any great piece of fiction. But this was bad fiction. I felt it had no point, no purpose. The author fails to expand on the important parts of the book like its plot and ending. Instead she spends too much time describing the cuisine. It seems to me the author has an obsession with food and cats. There's nothing wrong with either, but in this book they aren't woven into a story that's interesting, engaging or even amusing. After reading it I was angry that I'd wasted my time and money on a story with little redeeming value.
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Summary: The Best!
Review: This is the best LJB novel yet. My favorites seem to center around life in the apple barn. I get a bit antsy when Qwill travels or moves the kitties to a temporary residence. I have read them all...NEXT!
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Summary: Who's writing these books?
Review: This is the worst of the last few really poor "Cat Who..." mysteries...they have become poor parodies of themselves, and if Lillian Jackson Braun is still the series author, then she's in her dotage...or is just filling pages to make money off series fanatics like me. Well, guess what...you can just do that for so long...and then it's "so long" to the series.
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Summary: Into the Litter box with this one! PeeYoo!!!
Review: This is what a bored, burned-out woman writes instead of a story! Now she just wants to gush about decor and the snobbish foods
eaten by all those backwoods boobs in Pickaxe, where there is
always an "event" (of no consequence or interest) that simply
EVERYONE talks about for weeks and finally attends. When I say
NO STORY I mean 90% of the book is "back-story" which happened
somewhere else and fails to whet any interest. The only mystery
is why she wrote this when she obviously didn't feel like writing
anything but her expensive grocery list. That's easy -- because
she trained us to like the Siamese cats, who are really ignored
in this until she feels guilty about it and crams a half-page
about KoKo in just at the end. Laura shows how SICK of this series
she is by making US sick of it. So it's either re-read the
oldies or Goodbye forever, KoKo and Yum Yum.
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Summary: Outlived 9 Lives
Review: This latest book in "The Cat Who . . ." series is another disappointment. While I found it more interesting than the previous novel, I wish that Braun would write as she once did. Koko and Yumyum used to play important roles. Now, it just seems like they're mentioned incidentally. This is the last book in the series I plan to read. Sorry, Koko; you're nine lives are up for this reader!
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Summary: Super Sleuth Cat
Review: This new addition to Ms. Braun's series of the "Cat who...." is a most welcomed and anticipated addition to the series. I enjoy following Mr. Q. and his cat KoKo as they discover who the perpetrators of crime are in Moose County, 400 miles north of everywhere. I would highly recommend this and her others in the series.
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Summary: not one her best books.
Review: was a little diapponted in this book. it reminded me of so much of her others. its a nice light book but it didn't take long to read.
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