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72 reviews

Indoor Cat: How to Enrich Their Lives and Expand Their World by Lynn Bahr DVM
Did not finish book.

slow-paced

1.0

This book strangely reads like it was written by someone who thinks cats should never live indoors. The entire first chapter is spent trying to convince you that your cat is miserable living with you and that your efforts to keep them safe indoors is giving them extreme depression and mental health problems. Some of the claims about lifespan and declawing don’t match conversations with my own vet or personal research I’ve done, so I question the validity of the information in this book. It gets a little better by the end but the tone continues to be condescending throughout.

1 star was only awarded because occasionally you get a few okay enrichment suggestions here and there, though they aren’t anything super groundbreaking.

Overall this is an absolutely bizarre book. I was extremely disappointed because I loved the Adventure Cats book by Laura J. Moss. If you want a good cat book go read that one instead. 

Authority by Jeff VanderMeer

challenging dark mysterious tense slow-paced

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

3.5

Fullmetal Alchemist (3-In-1 Edition), Vol. 9 by Hiromu Arakawa

adventurous dark emotional hopeful tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

Alice Isn't Dead by Joseph Fink

adventurous dark emotional hopeful mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer

adventurous challenging dark mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated

5.0

Maus II: A Survivor's Tale: And Here My Troubles Began by Art Spiegelman

challenging dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

4.25

Maus: A Survivor's Tale. My Father Bleeds History by Art Spiegelman

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.25

Stray Dogs by Tony Fleecs

dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot

3.0

Bad Cree by Jessica Johns

dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

Moon of the Crusted Snow by Waubgeshig Rice

dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

4.5