Bits and Pieces: Cat Daddies Mysteries S... I like cats. I especially like cats in books. Characters that have cats win bonus points in my opinion. And, in Bits and Pieces, we have a very large and unusual cat called Jericho who doesn't like that his cat daddy, the town's new vet, is being questioned for murder. So, he decides to help solve the murder, with some help from humans and animals along the way.

I found Bits and Pieces to be a very entertaining novella. Quite far from the horror book Arachnohazard, my first introduction to Wren Cavanagh. Although Bits and Pieces have a bit of gore as well, not as graphic and horrifying as in Arachnohazard perhaps, but they do have to pick up a murder victim in pieces...

Bits and Pieces is a perfect novella for when you want a mystery, with a cat, and some very interesting characters (both human and animals). The especially liked how the story ended, and I'm curious to see what will happen next.

I liked Bits and Pieces very much and I look forward to reading the rest four novellas!

I want to thank the author for proving me with a free copy for an honest review!

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So, I love the Rot & Ruin series by Jonathan Maberry. The writing is excellent, clever, suspenseful and fun. I just read this one and loved it as much as the others. It includes short stories from before and during the rest of the series. 

 

If you haven't read it yet, and you like zombie stories. Try this one. 

I just love Jonathan Maberry. He has a way of writing these zombie books so well that you practically feel like you're living it and so realistic too. The short stories give you a real feel of the panic people went through during the first night - I actually wish more of the book focused on the 14 years later. 

 

Told in multiple perspectives and throughout different time periods of the series Jonathan Maberry tells what happened fourteen years ago, the start of the zombie apocalypse and what it was like to survive it or turn zom. Several of the stories are throughout the series and in between some of the Rot and Ruin books as well. 

 

The only thing I disliked were the stories throughout the series, like the before Dust and Decay. I read the series early on last year and had trouble remembering what was happening during the time period - I think if I had re-read the series before this it would have helped. 

 

But, Rot and Ruin fans will definitely be please with this 400 page plus addition to the series. It was definitely action packed and full of zombies and reapers (just what we love). While our favorite characters weren't in a lot if, the new characters made up for it and they weren't missed!

 

September 20:

• Colt - Jayne Blue, #3 in Great Wolves MC
• Sleeping with the Beast - Conner Kressley, Rebecca Hamilton, #2 in The Conduit Series

 

September 21:

• Bane - Amelia C. Gormley, #2 in Strain
• Blade Dance (A Cold Iron Novel) - D.L. McDermott, #4 in Cold Iron
• Born of Treasure - Jordan Elizabeth Mierek, #2 in Treasure Chronicles
• Hardcore - Jenika Snow, #1 in Bleeding Mayhem
• Head Over Heels - Leeanna Morgan, #3 in The Bridesmaids Club
• Midnight Fire - Lisa Marie Rice, #7 in Midnight
• Misconduct - Kathryn Kelly, #5 in Death Dwellers MC
• Shooting Dirty - Jill Sorenson, #2 in Dirty Eleven MC

September 22:

• Addict - Lexi Blake, #7 in Thieves, #2 in Hunter
• Beastly Bones - William Ritter, #2 in Jackaby
• Beautifully Loyal - Nicole Edwards, #2 in Southern Boy Mafia
• Bits & Pieces - Jonathan Maberry, #5 in Rot & Ruin
• Clamp School Detectives - CLAMP,  #1 in Clamp School Detectives
• Come Rain or Come Shine - Jan Karon, #11 in Mitford
• Cook's Big Day - Joanne Pence, #16 in Angie Amalfi
• Crazy about Cameron - Katy Regnery, #3 in Winslow Brothers
• Fear Us - B.B. Reid, #3 in Broken Love
• Gatefather - Orson Scott Card, #3 in Mither Mages
• The Girl with the Deep Blue Eyes - Lawrence Block, #95 in Hard Case Crime

Well, I liked it better than the racist Skippyjohn books. In fact, I like the art of the cats quite a bit, but I wasn't in love with the writing. I don't know if it's because I anticipate being annoyed based on the series, and therefor am, or what, exactly.

 

Not egregious, but it won't be one of my go-to cat books ever.

 

Library copy.