Charlie M. (bookaddicted) -
Helpful Score: 2
Simply awful. Almost 300 pages of meandering and you are left wondering just what the heck the mystery is. If there is a third book in the series I know I won't be reading it.
Julia V. (gardenlady5562) reviewed Nine Lives Last Forever (Cats and Curios, Bk 2) on + 183 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 1
Enjoyed this book. Makes you wonder if Uncle Oscar is really dead. Left me with lots of questions I hope will be answered in the next installment.
Charlene C. (mccoffield) reviewed Nine Lives Last Forever (Cats and Curios, Bk 2) on + 76 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 1
This is an unusual series, not a run-of-the-mill mystery series, cozy or not. Rebecca M. Hale is a good writer and a very unique author.
It took me some time to get into this series. My best advice is to "go with the flow" and don't over analyze things.
The story lines are a bit mystery, a bit fantasy, a bit adventure and a bit historical novel. The mystery part is just that there is a mystery (or two) to solve. The fantasy part refers to the authors propensity to humanize (give dialogue or thought process to) animals and sometimes objects. The adventure part varies from book to book and is usually tied into the historical part - specifically the gold rush era, though the setting is current-time San Francisco.
My guess is this: either you will become oddly enthralled in this different kind of mystery, or you will simply not appreciate the author's style at all.
I had previously read the first two books in another series by the same author - her mysteries set in the Virgin Island, which also are not your typical cozy mysteries. However, I loved the Virgin Islands books, so I had to try her cat series.
I do recommend this series to the adventuresome reader, but it does require a bit of "getting-used-to" and perhaps a bit of "letting-go".
It took me some time to get into this series. My best advice is to "go with the flow" and don't over analyze things.
The story lines are a bit mystery, a bit fantasy, a bit adventure and a bit historical novel. The mystery part is just that there is a mystery (or two) to solve. The fantasy part refers to the authors propensity to humanize (give dialogue or thought process to) animals and sometimes objects. The adventure part varies from book to book and is usually tied into the historical part - specifically the gold rush era, though the setting is current-time San Francisco.
My guess is this: either you will become oddly enthralled in this different kind of mystery, or you will simply not appreciate the author's style at all.
I had previously read the first two books in another series by the same author - her mysteries set in the Virgin Island, which also are not your typical cozy mysteries. However, I loved the Virgin Islands books, so I had to try her cat series.
I do recommend this series to the adventuresome reader, but it does require a bit of "getting-used-to" and perhaps a bit of "letting-go".
Karen S. (CacaoBear) reviewed Nine Lives Last Forever (Cats and Curios, Bk 2) on + 87 more book reviews
I found this book to be very confusing. I'm still not exactly sure what the plot was. It's classified as a mystery, but the only mystery was what the H-E-double-hockey-sticks was going on?!?!?! It started out with a "before section" and then an "after" section, which ended with, "I thought you were dead!". Then it went into the "in between stuff for a couple-hundred pages. Except ... I didn't pick up on the "after" aspect of that second chapter, and I kept wondering what ever happened to the not-dead dead person ... And then ... when the creamy center of the Oreo story line was done and it flipped back to the "after" story, the characters and twists were so hopelessly convoluted that I was completely lost. None of the characters is particularly endearing, so I found I really didn't care what happened to them. The only reason I kept reading is that I couldn't figure out what the twist had to do with the story (such as it was), and I'm still not sure. The book is just under 300 pages, and I'd say a good 60% of it is "filler" - background history of San Fransisco and its politics - that just made the whole thing drag along like a kite on a windless day.
Linda R. (wolfie123) - , reviewed Nine Lives Last Forever (Cats and Curios, Bk 2) on + 421 more book reviews
Odd...very odd............IMHO !
Kathryn S. (libsue) reviewed Nine Lives Last Forever (Cats and Curios, Bk 2) on + 13 more book reviews
Fun book by a good author. I'd like to read more of her mysteries with cats and books.
When frogs begin appearing in the antiques shop Rebecca has inherited from Uncle Oscar, her cats Rupert and Isabella instantly give chase. But why are frogs also turning up in San Francisco's City Hall building? And what does her late uncle's mysterious note to "follow the frogs" mean? â Soon Rebecca is caught up in the chase herself, along with a crazy crew of her uncle's oddball friends -- as well as his oldest enemy. With rumors of hidden gold, political conspiracies, faked deaths, and cold-blooded betrayal in the air, she has to try hard not to leap to any conclusions until she and her kitties can uncover the truth, warts and all...
