2/25/2024 0 Comments Is kin the cat dangerous![]() ![]() Both these young people are isolated: their parents can't, just now, give them the support they need. We're immediately drawn into Ben's world, then Tiffany's. Green's ability to get inside his characters' heads, reveal their motivations and emotional journeys, and make the reader care about what happens to these kids is what has pulled me into and and through this book now for the third time. It's a strong plot handled deftly, with plenty of twists and turns, but it is the author's flare for characterisation that I most admire. But the familiar outlines are filled in with real originality, such as Green's invention of the lore of Pashki. The Cat Kin is an adventure story offering classical ingredients: main characters who find they have special talents, an elderly and wise mentor, spectacularly evil villains. Ben's mum and dad are separated, but (because Nick Green is too intelligent to fall back on easy clichés) there are no villains here, just two adults trying, with mixed success, to muddle through somehow. Their problems are problems many readers will easily identify with: Tiffany has a young brother with muscular dystrophy and her distracted parents often seem to forget she exists. They are ordinary, good kids: nice – but not angelic. ![]() They have loving but far from perfect families. The Cat Kin is a cracking read.īen Gallagher and Tiffany Maine are young teens living in London. I first read The Cat Kin about two years ago, when a couple of friends recommended it to me. One of the delights of reviewing purely for pleasure, as we do on ABBA, is being able to return to books that have a special place in your affections. They are going to need all of their nine lives. But who is their eccentric old teacher? What does she really want with them? And why are they suddenly able to see in the dark? For Mrs Powell teaches pashki, a lost art from an age when cats were worshipped as gods. Ben and Tiffany never expected their after-school gym class to be like this. ![]()
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