Review: Purrfectly Silly Story
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 06 16, 2014
A sweet, simplistic short story about a clever cat named Cupid who lives up to his name and sets his Lady Ann up with a new boyfriend as she has purrfectly dreadful taste in men. Bella, a green-eyed Siamese, Cupid's lady cat love interest, has a nice owner, a downstairs neighbor, Craig, who's slovenly and single, so Cupid sets them up.The short story is told from the cat's point of view. Lawyer Craig is a slob and her previous boyfriend, Jimmy the Cat Hater, is a real crook. Lady Ann and her girlfriend Flavia are annoying, whiny loquacious characters. Cupid the Cat is quite the British butler with his syntax, yet the tale is set in middle America, so it's a bit odd. But the premise that a cat can navigate a cellphone is also a stretch of the imagination. Siamese cats don't have green eyes. If they do, they're not real Siamesies.Entertaining read as the author does capture cats' idiosyncrasies. One faked car accident, one tail stepped on, some unmentionable hairball talk, a real catfight, amore, cops and robbers. No foul language, but reading hashtages is ###### annoying. I found myself counting the number of hashtags to figure out what the ####### word or phrase was. Purrsonally, I prefer cursing. Author Mazy Morris claims this book is PG, hence the lack of cursewords, but Cupid's Lady Ann has the morals of an alleycat so, what's the point? It's OK to have 12-year-old readers learning about Lady Ann's X-rated sex life, but not see actual swearwords? Silly premise. A quickie read if you (don't) like cats and have some time to kill at the doctor's office. Engaging an extreme suspension of disbelief is in order, and you'll do fine with the tall tail. No hairballs were coughed up, or durty bums licked in the process. Mrrow!