First: disclaimer. I HATED THIS BOOK. Actually, I liked it fairly well up until the ending. But the ending ABSOLUTELY STANK. Also, I'm going to majorly spoil it, so don't read any further if you don't want that.
Now that we've got that out of our way, let's begin. The story starts when our main character, Jason, finds out his cat can talk. The premise of the book is that cats don't necessarily have nine lives, but they can visit nine lives. Accordingly, the book is divided into nine sections of two chapters each (except one, which has three chapters). Oh, and the cat is named Gareth. Who names their cat Gareth???
And then Jason and Gareth go on a rollicking adventure! Actually, they go on NINE rollicking adventures. I don't have much to say about any of them, really. They go to all sorts of places and times and do random stuff.
AND NOW, for the ending:
It was all a dream.
My first reaction upon reading that was "AaAAAaAARGH". "It was all a dream" is quite possibly my least favorite story ending ever. EVER.
If this was a movie, I don't know how I would rate it. Probably PG.
And what rating did you think this book would get? Quite obviously, given the tone of the rest of my review, it's getting one star. This is what books get for having my least favorite ending in the history of bad book endings. (There are a few books who have managed to redeem themselves despite having "it was all a dream" as their ending, but not many in my eyes.)
Favorite lines: none. No really memorable lines.
"It was all a dream" doesn't always bother me, but sometimes it can be very lame :-b
ReplyDeleteyes. it was LAAAAAAME in this book.
DeleteAs I said in my review, just because a book has "It was all a dream" as its ending means it's a terrible book. It's going to disappoint me slightly, but the book itself can be redeemed.