The Cat Who Robbed a Bank

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Summary: Who wrote this book?
Review: I have always enjoyed KoKo and YumYum and I think Qwill is the greatest. This book however just did not flow. I kept asking myself who wrote this book. It felt like the outline was Ms. Braun, but the writer did not have her smooth whimisical flow. The story was good as always, the dialogue was just too choppy and inconsistent.

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Summary: An Entertaining Read
Review: Although not for people who are hard-core mystery fans who like overly subtle clues, many murders, and a constant search for the culprit, this book is still an entertaining read. My main problem with it was that there was no mystery, in a sense. Qwilleran didn't have to sit down and try to figure out who had done it. Everyone in the town knew who had done it. The only excitement about the murder itself was the criminal's attempts at fleeing.

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Summary: Every "Cat Who...." is a pleasure!
Review: I was so happy to see George Guidall return as the reader of Jackson's "Cat Who..." series. If you are an avid fan, try the un-abridged editions, they are wonderful and entertaining. Right now the only place I can find them (un-abridged)is the local library, and there is always a long waiting list, but worth the wait. Please continue with George Guidall, he IS Qwill.

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Summary: The cat who earned two stars
Review: What a page turner! I kept turning the pages looking for a story! This book is so bland that Mrs. Braun put an overabundance of exclamation points to suggest action where none existed! It seems as if her heart was not in this installment. There was too much "filler fluff" and not enough theories about the murder and who might have "dunnit." Even Qwill was lazy this time figuring the murder will be solved at the end of the book so why bother with it? I hope this was just a bad outing for Mrs. Braun and not a steady decline.

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Summary: This cat is nearing it's nineth and final life.
Review: I like my old slippers, my old robe, and the cat books. But eventually I will throw out the robe and slippers. I think it's time to retire the cat series too. Thank you for the memories, Lilian.

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Summary: The Cat Who Should Retire
Review: I used to love the CAT WHO. But recently these books are long and boring. Qwill does absolutely nothing to solve the mystery-- the murderer's friend tells him the whole story. Qwill still does nothing. And in the obligatory confrontation with the murderer, Koko doesn't save the day (as he should). The characters are all done wrong as well. Qwill seems to find the commonfolk amusing. I refuse to believe LJB is still writing.

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Summary: This was one book I couldn't put down
Review: I loved the book it was really good. I couldn't put it down. Ms. Braun has really done a wonderful job and I have read all her books and I think this one wasn't as well written as the others but it was still very good reading and I would recommend it to anyone.

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Summary: How sad...
Review: I have been reading this series forever, and I think it's about time for the publisher to admit that Ms. Braun is no longer writing the series, or if she is still writing (which is highly unlikely considering the time frame of the entire series) she is being aided by a ghostwriter. There is no possible way that this book could have been written by the same author who was writing the series five years ago. Very boring and cluttered with detail. Those of us who have come to know "Qwill" and his two cats feel a great loss within the pages of this book- their personality, humor, and warmth. To me, the "clue" that Braun is no longer involved in the series was when, in THE CAT WHO ROBBED A BANK, the cats stopped being Qwilleran's respected roomates and became instead his demanding pets. How truly sad :(

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Summary: really quite sad...
Review: I have been reading this series forever, and I think it's about time for the publisher to admit that Ms. Braun is no longer writing the series, or if she is still writing (which is highly doubtful considering the time frame of the entire series from book one) she is being aided by a ghostwriter. There is no possible way that this book could have been written by the same author who was writing the series five years ago. Very boring and cluttered with detail. Those of us who have come to know "Qwill" and his two cats feel a great loss within the pages of this book- their personality, humor, and warmth. The cats became merely grunting pets in this book- and that's the "clue" that Ms. Braun has passed on her pen. How truly sad :(

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Summary: an exhausting dissapointment
Review: Through the year, we look forward to the cat who books. My wife reads them aloud by the fire. As this one went on and on with no mystery, no humor, no irony and none of the subtle sexiness of the past books, we sadly realized that either Ms. Braun would never again be able to give us the pleasure we looked forward to or someone else is writing these books. Topics were brought up and dropped i.e. Amanda Goodwinter's race to be Mayor and humor, so loved in the past, is sadly nonexistant. What we had were thick pages, wide margins, and a drone of day to day activities. The villans and town characters had no character and we were depressed instead of elated. Come on, if the publisher is doing this, they should get a better ghost writer. If it's Ms. Braun, it's sadly time to retire. Of course, we will buy the next one and my wife will read it aloud by the fire. We will always have hope that it will be as joyous as the great Cat Who Books we remembered.