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The Travelling Cat Chronicles by Hiro Arikawa

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zara89's review against another edition

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emotional slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

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hello_summertea's review against another edition

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emotional lighthearted reflective relaxing medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? No

5.0

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hollylol's review against another edition

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adventurous emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective relaxing sad fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? No

5.0

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aileen_macalister's review against another edition

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adventurous challenging emotional funny hopeful reflective sad medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

The author writes "cat" perfectly and it has been transl ted beautifully! I listened to the audiobook on Spotify and it did really feel as if I was listening to a cat tell me all about his life.
I loved it so much from start to finish. I laughed and cried and fell in love with NaNa the cat.
Simply beautiful!
A must read for any animal lover
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erinn93's review against another edition

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emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted reflective relaxing sad medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? No

5.0

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rjkadlick's review against another edition

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4.25

😭😭😭

i’m not saying you need to love cats to love this book but also i am saying that
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americattt's review against another edition

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emotional reflective sad medium-paced
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  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? No

5.0

“For the rest of my life, I would remember all the shades of red Satoru mentioned that day.”
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winterisvague's review against another edition

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emotional sad slow-paced
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2.5

 "My story will be over soon. But it’s not something to be sad about. As we count up the memories from one journey, we head off on another. Remembering those who went ahead. Remembering those who will follow after. And someday, we will meet all those people again, out beyond the horizon."

As a huge cat lover (I have 14 of them), I really wanted to love this book. Unfortunately, the writing was subpar, maybe even bland. I don't know if it's a translation issue, but alas. Furthermore, the constant shift between the cat's perspective and the third-person narrative also created a sense of dissonance.

I really liked the heart-warming moments between Sotaru and Nana, and I enjoyed seeing the story through Nana's eyes. However, all the flashbacks in-between bored me, and I felt that plenty of them were quite irrelevant to the story as a whole. I wanted to be taken along on this bittersweet journey with Nana and Sotaru, but instead, half of the book consisted of memories from Sotaru's past. Some of them were relevant for context, but others just dragged on.

Despite all the things I didn't like, I would be lying if I said the ending didn't bring me to tears. The last portion of the book was so bittersweet, and it moved me. It makes up for the other 60% of the book that I didn't quite enjoy. I'm gonna go and give my cats a big hug now. 
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tristanklein's review against another edition

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emotional inspiring sad medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.75

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venusynth's review against another edition

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adventurous emotional lighthearted reflective relaxing sad slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? No

5.0

A story made for cat lovers, be it those with cats or without. It truly is a story about friendship as we see not only the loyalty between cat and owner––or "master" in the cat's terms––but also the friends our human MC, Satoru, has made in his life, particularly his adolescence. A nice cast of characters with their individual relationships to Satoru. Kudos to the author(s), both original and translator, for providing readers a cat so witty and brilliant like Nana. A cosy read and you feel like you're in the backseat of Satoru's van, alongside Nana.

An amazing book, and I don't care if I'm biased. Any book where the story told is either narrated by a cat, or where a chapter focuses on a cat, count me a fan. I love cats and I always will. 
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