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She has met a new group of friends at a pet bereavement group, and is slowly finding peace in the world. She also covered most current topics like racism (her boss she works for says some racist things), sustainability etc. Also at one point Mia describes Tristan being confronted by Belinda’s lover because she was stalking him after he refused to leave his wife - but unless they got together straight away, she wouldn’t have been there surely? Anyway, I did read read the epilogue and everything seems to have ended well, I just have absolutely no desire to take the journey to get there.
Although ‘Cat Lady’ seemed to be missing something that usually has me turning the pages of her novels. I won't say anymore on the plot as presumably with the lack of synopsis the reader is supposed to go in blind, so I've put this under a spoiler just in case it spoils it for anyone. A shocking event will judder shockwaves through Mia’s life – but will she keep a cat-like balance, or flounder? When the silent protagonist cat has more personality than literally all the characters in a 300+ page book, there’s a bit of an issue.
Die Helden bleiben unsympatisch und vage, die Story vorhersehbar, auch wenn sie nach der Hälfte endlich besser wird und doch noch knapp 3 Sterne hergibt. I'm always excited to read a new Dawn O'Porter novel and as usual I loved this one, she has such a wonderful way of creating such relatable and vivid characters. I’ll admit I initially found the quips about being a ‘cat lady’ and her intense pet relationship a bit odd, but once her back story starts to be told I completely understood the premise and the MC far better. There were so many instances when reading when I was simply teetering between cringe, disbelief, and also shock at the standard of publishing. She lives with her husband but his ex is there constantly so she’s seemingly constantly belittled by her.
She feels she is being successful at playing the many roles in her life - wife, step mother and successful career woman - but she can’t help feeling like things aren’t quite right.It’s not in any way funny (unless you find people dealing with grief, trauma and other mental health issues amusing. The part where the book officially lost me, I think, was when the main character's inner monologue went on this strange fantasy about how she wanted her cat to lick some sort of food off of her back, which was followed by her musing that she understood about the (theoretical) woman she'd heard about who let her dog lick her where dogs absolutely should not lick someone! This one where I giggled, cried, gasped, cringed and shouted at the book- possibly even at the same time. I really didn’t want to cry at this book and I tried so hard not to but it just couldn’t be helped, I finally caved and found myself full of tears. I initially thought I was being petty – but it would appear many other ARC readers on Net Galley felt the same!
I didn’t like Mia at all: an example of how she thinks: “She is reading a copy of Cosmo, which makes me assume she has an STD. I received a complimentary ARC from NetGalley and am posting this (brutally - sorry) honest review with no pleasure but as a warning to proceed with caution. This is a book that tries humour but its not a funny book because there is too much tragedy behind it. It got a little too wacky as Mia grows increasingly erratic, which makes for an odd tone when everything that happens is very sad and painful. I like to think I’ve got quite a varied sense of humour, and apparently this was “laugh out loud”, and maybe it is to some but hell no, not to me.
Some of the characters in this book were truly unlikeable and I absolutely despised them, such as Tristan (Mia's husband), Belinda (Tristan's ex wife) and Tristan and Belinda's circle of friends.
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