Book Reviews by Rotto

4 Paw Review: Fury by Shirley Marr

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Told through the eyes of unreliable narrator Eliza, Fury is not a typical whodunnit. Upfront we know the culprit behind the murder is Eliza herself.

“My name is Eliza Boans, and I am a murder.
I know. It’s pretty shocking, huh?”

Eliza’s opening lines feeds the reader many questions.
Who’s been murdered? Why? How?
More importantly, why is Eliza so flippant about her murdering status?

[Image Description: Rotto, a black and tan dog is sitting next to a green fairy mushroom which is displaying a copy of Fury by Shirley Marr.]

Told in flashbacks with snippets of information Eliza gradually reveals the answers — after a fashion, and in her own style.

The characters in Fury are flawed and display unthinkable behaviour — it’s one of the factors that makes Fury so compelling and hard to put down.

Rotto thought Fury was a fabulous read, well-deserving of the top ranking — 4 paws 🐾🐾

Chilli needs to take a life-lesson from Eliza and learn to confess her crimes. The 4 Paws photo shoot was ready to roll when I discovered the mask all chewed up in Chilli’s bed. Chilli, of course, tried to blame Rotto.

[Image Description: Cover of Fury (cover depicts a side shot of a women in a mask) next to mangled and chewed up butterfly mask.]

4 Paw Review: Nevernight by Jay Kristoff

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Book Review by Chilli AKA The Red Stealer & Rotto the RottStar (occasionally known as Rotto the Rotten)

Chilli is channeling her very best Mia Corvere and giving Rotto her best stink eye as she doesn’t believe he’s doing a good job at playing Mister Kindly.

Rotto says how much more not-cat could he be given he’s not a cat? And although he won’t consent to hanging about on Chilli’s shoulders he’ll happily curl up around Nevernight any day.

[Image Description: Left Chilli, a red heeler is wearing a long black wig and smiling. Top Right, Chilli in her wig is glaring at Rotto, a black and tan staffy kelpie cross – A copy of Nevernight is between them. Bottom Right, Rotto is curled around a copy of Nevernight]

Despite the not-cat 🐱saga, both Chilli and Rotto give 4 paws 🐾🐾to the entire Nevernight Chronicles for the smut, murder, political shenanigans* and overall awesomeness.
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*and the glorious footnotes –  who doesn’t love a novel with footnotes? The only thing  better than footnotes, is when the footnotes take the piss out of the footnotes.