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A review by finesilkflower
Mary Anne and the Search for Tigger by Ann M. Martin
2.0
Mary Anne flips out when she loses her cat.
She and the club paper the neighborhood with "Lost Cat" flyers. She’s further upset that Logan doesn’t seem to care. After a brief adventure in which the club members fear they are dealing with a ransom kidnapper (it turns out to be a hoax, spurred by the reward offered on the flier), Mary Anne discovers that Logan’s sister Kerry took in the cat because she wants a pet so badly. (Kerry and Logan’s younger brother, Hunter, has a number of allergies, including pet dander.) Mary Anne suspects Logan of knowing all along, but it turns out that he didn’t know, he was just upset about sports stuff.
The book effectively conveys the sudden pain and growing despair of a pet loss, but I’m glad this book occurred before #26 and not after, because it would have seemed just viciously petty. Sure, Mary Anne loves her cat, and it’s nice of the club and the neighborhood kids to show interest, but Mary Anne is overly hurt at the presence of other thoughts in Logan’s head. At the same time, because all the other mystery elements are so clunky and anvilicious, it feels weird that the brusque-Logan runner is such a red herring; we don’t know anything about Logan’s sports situation until he explains it at the end. For a book that hints so heavily at the solution to its mystery, couldn’t it stand to give a little time hinting at the solution to the sub-mystery "What’s up with Logan?"
She and the club paper the neighborhood with "Lost Cat" flyers. She’s further upset that Logan doesn’t seem to care. After a brief adventure in which the club members fear they are dealing with a ransom kidnapper (it turns out to be a hoax, spurred by the reward offered on the flier), Mary Anne discovers that Logan’s sister Kerry took in the cat because she wants a pet so badly. (Kerry and Logan’s younger brother, Hunter, has a number of allergies, including pet dander.) Mary Anne suspects Logan of knowing all along, but it turns out that he didn’t know, he was just upset about sports stuff.
The book effectively conveys the sudden pain and growing despair of a pet loss, but I’m glad this book occurred before #26 and not after, because it would have seemed just viciously petty. Sure, Mary Anne loves her cat, and it’s nice of the club and the neighborhood kids to show interest, but Mary Anne is overly hurt at the presence of other thoughts in Logan’s head. At the same time, because all the other mystery elements are so clunky and anvilicious, it feels weird that the brusque-Logan runner is such a red herring; we don’t know anything about Logan’s sports situation until he explains it at the end. For a book that hints so heavily at the solution to its mystery, couldn’t it stand to give a little time hinting at the solution to the sub-mystery "What’s up with Logan?"