The Girl with the Cat Tattoo by Theresa Weir

The Girl with the Cat Tattoo by Theresa Weir

My rating: 3 of 5 stars


I hadn't really expected to but I agree with the few reviews I glanced at before starting this here book. The parts with the cat are the best.

Part of the problem is the part where everything, including the parts apparently in the point of view of the two humans, had a kind of 'cat haze' to everything. A distancing. And something else that I cannot, at the moment, pinpoint. Part of it has to do with how immature, reckless, and downright dimwitted both of the humans were - at times the cat seemed smarter, and you know he wasn't a genius due to certain hints dropped here and there. So we have three relatively dim-witted people bumping around the story.

The story? Two years before the start of this story, in human years (I believe Max called it 14 in cat years), David was murdered. And who exactly is this 'David'? Why, David is Max's human - who brought him into a relationship with Melody when David married (well, supposedly, dated, courted, whatever, then married) Melody. Well, as noted, David's dead and Max and Melody have been bouncing around since then. Melody working as a librarian (and constantly seen out and about in her 'costumes' that she wears as a children's librarian), while Max . . . does cat things. Max, though, is tired of seeing Melody drunkenly wander home with some disgusting man clinging to her, so Max decides to make things right.

So he goes out hunting for the perfect mate. Has a list, see, and he's going to search for who fits. Which leads him into the company of a homeless man ('Hey! Melody has a home!'), but let's not tell the whole story.

Alright story all told. Certain unexpectedly distancing between me and it though, the story. And there was a lot more violence, bloodshed and suspense than I had expected or signed up for when I decided to read about a cat trying to find a mate for his human.

Rating: 3.63

June 20 2017



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