My Book Reviews: ‘The Cat Who Went Bananas’ by Lilian Jackson Braun
by Rob Smith, Jr. on Aug.02, 2023, under Books
The Cat Who Went Bananas by Lilian Jackson Braun
My rating: 2 of 5 stars
First, this book will only be valued by those who have been reading the entire “Cat Who” series. Anyone else will be lost and bored to sleep. That’s true for most of the series.
This 27th in the series was poorly plotted and written. The narrative and dialogue reads as previous books, but the overall book reads as pieces and parts strung together with an editor not paying attention. A rush to deadline?
This the first I’e noticed stark repetitions of paragraphs from other parts of the book. There are over-long narratives from characters that are unneeded and slow down the novel.
In earlier novels there was typically a murder or two and the main character solved the murder, with aid from his cats.
In this one deaths are alluded to, motives for murder established and a strong narrative of a murderer laid out. In the end, it all added to nothing more than speculation nothing more.
Within a 10% of the book, I knew what was to occur and how. Sadly, that is what occurred. A better writer(s) would have written a better book.
The lowest of the Braun books I’ve read…so far.
Bottom line: I don’t recommend this book. 3 out of ten points.
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