2019 Around the Year Reading Challenge: A book with a weird or intriguing title

Kittens Can Kill by Clea Simon

My rating: 3 of 5 stars


Actually a 2.5 but goodreads won't let me do half stars and it wasn't so bad it needed to round down.

This is the only Pru Marlowe book I've read (having picked it up at a used book sale because of the title). Honestly, you don't need to have read the first 4.

Pru is an animal behaviorist... sorta. More of a woman who walks dogs, helps pets get settled into new homes, deals with ousting nuisance animals. But she's able to have a "way with animals" because she's able to hear their thoughts. (yeah I know)

She gets called to help one of the bigwigs of her town settle in a new kitten. When she arrives, she find the man dead. She then gets embroiled in the dispute between the man's three adult daughters over the estate, who killed him and all that.

Frankly, I found there was very little redeemable about Pru. She drinks too much, is rather mean and rude to her love interests, does not seem to have an empathetic bone in her body and doesn't treat the animals with the care and such that I expect someone who does what she does for a living with her abilities to do.

Cannot say I will be looking for any others in this series or others by the author.



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Glad Game 2019: October 1 and 2

October 1:

* progress on a new audiobook

* may not have won the arguement with a program at work, but at least reached a stalemate/tie.

* had ingredients in the house to make some comfort food.

* snuggles with Grimmy

October 2:

* better living through modern chemistry. Seriously, there are times I very much love modern pharmacology and when I have to go home before the barometric migraine makes it so I cannot drive and having the meds in the house to make the pain go away is one of them

* fuzzy critters in the house who see that momma does not feel well and provides warm and snuggles until she does.

* finished book #75 when the pain resided enough for me to read.