Also it sounded more than a little intriguing. From the blurb, a woman living alone with her cat suddenly brings a man into the house. The cat is not happy and plans to get rid of the intruder.
From the book itself, the spirit of a dead ex boyfriend sort of possesses the cat but doesn't have complete control. He does indeed want to get rid of the new man in his woman's life, but, being a cat, can't actually do much about it.
This is an interesting book. The concept is novel and the prose is just off kilter enough to still be readable and weird at the same time.
There are some odd narrative choices. The switch to first person in the cat chapters in the third act was jarring and made very little sense till nearly the end.
I'm not 100% sure I liked it. I kind of did, but it didn't quite deliver on the promise of the plot description. It took itself entirely seriously whilst I was expecting some type of black comedy.
I did like the prose. Clarity was not always the strong point though. Once again in this book I found myself rereading passages, but mainly to try to work out what had just happened this time around. The ending was a bit of an anticlimax.
Would I read a Dan Spencer novel again if he writes another? Probably out of morbid curiosity, but it wouldn't be top of the TBR pile.
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