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Title: contrived and unbelievable at every turn
Review: Given the other glowing reviews, I must be missing something. Altough the book is nicely written, the story is so implausible as to be laughable. I was willing to suspend my disbelief for the premise - I like a good suspense story and they all require some of that - but it only got worse. The cops are unbelievable, the main characters friends, who all express concern about her, are uncaring stick figures, and her quest of the truth is not only silly, it comes down to her chasing the lead of someone looking to buy a cat -- no not in the obvious places you'd think to look like pet store, adoption center, ad... but by trailing gypsies who are rumored to have cats. I kept going thinking that in the end, there'd be a lovely twist that would make it all worthwhile. Not so. It peters out with an entirely predictable and everyday ending. I wanted to throw the stupid thing against the wall.
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