The Golden Cat
by Gabriel King

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Book Review: A Mediocre Fantasy Tale
Summary: 2 Stars

Where is all the myth, the magic, the sheer Mystery that inhabited The Wild Road? Why is the bad guy someone we see all of two pages worth of? Where are all the fantastically poetic descriptions? And why, oh why, does nobody EVER stay good and dead?

The fact that we met most of these animals in the first book does not mean that no further characterization is needed. I felt like I was reading cardboard cutout characters. But the folks I'd really like to know about are the folks that Mr. King completely glossed over. Who was the fine, gentlemanly Monsignor Gutbag? What's a manta ray doing swimming in outer space? And what about that utterly fascinating Reading Cat? Knowing him would have been grand. Not to mention the foul Kater Murr--do his problems stem from his odor, or what? And the Dog?--now that was a major letdown in the ending. And La Mere? And the armadillos? And Amelie? And the.... The list goes on, but Mr. King has decided to only give us the most cursory of introductions to these worthies.

Maybe it's just me. I expected the same magic as I got out of The Wild Road. Instead, I should have looked for a mediocre fantasy tale centering on a group of supposedly heroic felines.

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