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The Travelling Cat Chronicles by Hiro Arikawa
2.0
The audiobook narrator does a great job with the voices of women, men, and a sardonic cat. Oh, and a dog.
Only 3 stars, because the story has too many inconsistencies.
1) It seems as though after we come out of an early flashback, Nana knows what happened, even though he wasn't alive yet. (I may be wrong on this, b/c it's too much trouble to go back in an audiobook to check.) This phenomenon is better explained later in the book when an older cat tells Nana the back story that SHE heard from the previous cat.
2) Satoru says that Hachi had a terrifying plane trip once. But why? Satoru's friend took care of Hachi at his house whenever they went out of town. Plus, why would anyone take a cat on a plane unless they were moving somewhere? And you can't have just one plane trip, you'd have to have two.
3) Satoru brings Nana to his parents' graves as the last stop on the road trip. There's a flashback revealing Satoru has promised this repeatedly over the years. But at any of the previous stops, he might have left Nana with friends. So why wouldn't the visit to the graves come first? Though I suppose you could argue that he never intended to leave Nana, that Nana was simply the excuse to visit his old friends.
4) After the road trip does not result in a successful placement, he goes to the apartment his aunt is moving into. But if his aunt thought he was going to find a home for the cat, why did she move to a cat-friendly apartment? He called her from the road and she then, in a day or two, found a new apartment? That seems unlikely.
5) In the hospital, at the end, why are there so many health care professionals in the room? Wouldn't that be just the time everyone leaves except loved ones?
Only 3 stars, because the story has too many inconsistencies.
1) It seems as though after we come out of an early flashback, Nana knows what happened, even though he wasn't alive yet. (I may be wrong on this, b/c it's too much trouble to go back in an audiobook to check.) This phenomenon is better explained later in the book when an older cat tells Nana the back story that SHE heard from the previous cat.
2) Satoru says that Hachi had a terrifying plane trip once. But why? Satoru's friend took care of Hachi at his house whenever they went out of town. Plus, why would anyone take a cat on a plane unless they were moving somewhere? And you can't have just one plane trip, you'd have to have two.
3) Satoru brings Nana to his parents' graves as the last stop on the road trip. There's a flashback revealing Satoru has promised this repeatedly over the years. But at any of the previous stops, he might have left Nana with friends. So why wouldn't the visit to the graves come first? Though I suppose you could argue that he never intended to leave Nana, that Nana was simply the excuse to visit his old friends.
4) After the road trip does not result in a successful placement, he goes to the apartment his aunt is moving into. But if his aunt thought he was going to find a home for the cat, why did she move to a cat-friendly apartment? He called her from the road and she then, in a day or two, found a new apartment? That seems unlikely.
5) In the hospital, at the end, why are there so many health care professionals in the room? Wouldn't that be just the time everyone leaves except loved ones?