Leger's Journey by Lacey Dearie

Leger's Journey by Lacey Dearie

My rating: 4 of 5 stars


I read so many different things I should probably include things at the beginning as immediate hints about what the specific story is about. Oh, right *looks above at shelves*. Nevermind.

This specific short story is the 25th story in the cat who detects stuff series. This specific story opens with Leger, Amber, and Ginger in cages wondering what's going on, where they were going. Annabelle and Nicole are there as well. Eventually Leger overhears the news that all of them are on their way to London, by way of train. Leger learns this when he overhears Nicole having a conversation with a young woman with a small boy. An important point to note, since the mystery involves Leger spotting that same boy later on - out in public with his clothing being changed and being lead away by a different person. Kidnapped kid?

Leger isn't sure what he can do - he's locked in a cage. Eventually he gets free and chases after the boy, following him onto another train (or races to where he thought they might have gone). Then the train doors close. Leger's now on a trip somewhere else, wherever that might be.

Meanwhile, observant humans that they are, Nicole and Annabelle chase after Leger. Which leads me to one specific problem I have with this story - they both chased after Leger and . . . left no one to watch over the other two cats. While I've ridden on British trains, I do not know them. I do know US trains, though - and what I know is that they let people board and then, basically immediately, flee the station (okay, I was mildly amused with imagining a train 'flee', but it isn't really 'fleeing'). So . . . basically I'm just saying that someone should have stayed with the other cats. Not a huge issue, spur of the moment, I can imagine the situation happening - I'm not saying that it is a not believable event, I'm saying . . . poor Amber and Ginger. *frowns sadly*

Right, short story, short review. Quite enjoyable return to Leger's world. Quite fun. Off to something else now.

Rating; 4.50

August 8 2017



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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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Leger's Return by Lacey Dearie

Leger's Return
by Lacey Dearie
Pages: 39
Date: January 1 2016
Publisher: Little Peanut Publishing
Series: Leger - Cat Sleuth Mysteries (19th? in series)

Review
Rating: 5.0 of 5.0
Read: February 4 2016

hehe, in a way I can't win . . .

I just made a comment somewhere or other indicating something silly - that I was going to delete all of my romance books off my Kindle, and forever more just read autobiographies from the point of view of cats (said after reading yet another romance book that annoyed me in a specific way). I'd said it jokingly, but then recalled that I actually had 2 or 3 cat point of view stories I could read, and dove into the first of the three. To find that the cat, Leger, worried about his relationship with Ginger, 'his' molly/girlfriend/whatever-word-works-here. Hence my 'I can't win'.

The weird thing? This little dip into troubled romances was handled much more smoothly, and with a better resolution than many of the romance books I'd read lately. So, maybe I can win, then, eh? hehe.

Right so, this story. Leger, Bob, and their humans return to Glasgow from their brief-ish attempt to make a new life on an island running a hotel. Even before they can actually make it back home, though, they hear about a crime that occurred on their street via radio (they heard about the crime by way of radio, not that the crime occurred by way of radio). And suspect that the person involved, as the victim, was someone they know. And someone Leger feels like is family, Nicole being the person I'm referring to here.

So, they arrive at Nicole's place, knock on the door and are greeted by . . . an overly cheerful Nicole. Some confusion there, by the characters in the story not by the reader. Turns out they were right, it was Nicole who was a victim. And she's in a bit of denial, outwardly at least.

Strangely, Leger also notices that Nicole's cat friends, Ginger and Amber, are missing. Right when Nicole needs them the most.

Well, I don't want to get to far down the road here (to expose too much of the plot). The main point is that a crime occurred involving a friend of Leger's (and, I should probably have noted at some point, this friend is a young human female - probably around 18 or so). And the cats are on the case, trying to solve another mystery.

Quite enjoyable. And a happy return to Leger-land.

February 4 2016