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Title: Cat in a Neon Nightmare: A Midnight Louie Mystery by Carole Nelson Douglas, Carole Douglas ISBN: 0-7653-0680-8 Publisher: Forge Pub. Date: 01 May, 2003 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.88 (8 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: An unexpected emotional ride
Comment: I discovered the Midnight Louie books over 2 years ago and have ravenosly read them all. Cat in a Neon Nightmare is full of unexpected surprises. A major chapter unexpectedly closes here and through Mrs. Nelson Douglas' artistry we are made to feel the void opened by this event as closely as those it affects in the book. Almost every character this time around is exposed to a truth or happenstance that disappoints them/shocks them at a deep soul biting level and we feel it right with them. Everything is not black and white, not all things happen due to premeditation--like real life--somethings just do. A wonderful continuation of the Midnight Louie adventures and by the emotions it evokes, a wonderful example of what a writer can make their readers feel when they have a grasp of the craft as well as Carole Nelson Douglas obviously does. Huzzah!
Rating: 5
Summary: Fabulous characters and humor! Can't wait for the next!
Comment: I've just finished this one, and each book in the Midnight
Louie series becomes more exciting! I love the Big Cats and the addition of Louie's mother. I see the love interests of the main characters becoming more confused, complex and even more interesting. I enjoy the characters immensely and feel that I know Temple, Matt, Max and even Molina. I can't wait for the next book to come out in paperback to find out what happens to all of them next.
I've loved this series from the beginning because of the continuing character growth as well as the humor. And the zany Las Vegas background has evolved along with the main characters.
The author spoke recently at my local library, so I asked how come books I love, like this one, sometimes get such negative reviews online. She said sometimes a book's content will hit too close to home and really push a reader's buttons; at least that's what she's found with completely negative reactions. When I showed her a review on this book that was so opposite my reaction, she also said that people's opinions are just that, and they can't be argued with.
But she also was pretty puzzled that someone complained she'd labeled the character of Max as a "lone wolf" so many times it was to the point of nausea. So she did a word search for the phrase after she flew back home and emailed me the results: Max is called a lone wolf in only one of the 16 books: this last one, Cat in a Neon Nightmare. She only found that the phrase lone wolf used twice in earlier books, once by the cat detective, Midnight Louie, contrasting feline and canine behavior, and once as a metaphor for a motorcycle that plays a role in the series.
Amazing, some people aren't really seeing what's in the books, they're reacting to what they think they see. In fact, their comments can be downright wrong in terms of fact as well as opinion.
So my advice is to read these books for yourself and make up your own minds. And write your own review if you don't agree with with what's posted!
Rating: 2
Summary: Light and fluffy is now padded and pretentious
Comment: Las Vegas has never been so boring.
This series has gone progressively downhill since "Cat in a Jeweled Jumpsuit". CND has stopped writing characters and has started to write caricatures. We all know Temple is petite and loves shoes. We all know Matt is an ex-priest. We all know Molina is dedicated to her job and her daughter. And, I swear, if I see the totally cliched phrase "lone wolf" to describe Max one more time, I'm going to scream. After fifteen books, we get it. Really, we do. Try moving beyond those character shortcuts to give us something fresh about these people.
Max has become the ultimate Marty Stu. There isn't anything the man can't make happen and it removes any suspense from the book since CND simply will not allow Max to fail. He's annoying, smarmy and two-dimensional at best with all his ramblings about the "Auld Sod" and his cousin; and he goes on and on in this book about it in this look-at-me-angst fashion that, frankly, makes me want to tell him to get over it more than anything else. He's solely the author's deus ex machina.
Matt did some growing in the beginning books but he's been stalled out for the last few novels as well. A crisis of conscience or faith is one thing. A crisis of conscience or faith stretched out over several books is quite another because the conceit loses its effect the more it's taken out, looked at, and dissected. At a certain point, it stops being introspection and becomes navel gazing and CND bangs on about it well past that point.
Midnight Louie's faux noir ramblings are stale and tired as is his little sniping relationship with Midnight Louise. I don't need Louie to give me a rundown of everything that I've just read in the previous chapters or to be at just the right place at just the right time. He's as much of a deus ex machina as Max is at this point.
The Synth plotline has run on far too long. Quite honestly, I don't care and all CND's attempts to make them seem mysterious and deadly are really just laughable. Why should they be all that formidable when Max can apparently thwart them/find them/gain access to them with ridiculous ease? At least the Kitty the Cutter plotline finally finds some resolution - enough that I don't have to hear about her again and again and again and again...
This is definitely the last CND "Cat in a..." book that I will read. They are no longer fresh, inviting and cozy reads. Instead, they are hackneyed, tedious and lackluster with characters who remain trapped in amber.
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Title: Whisker of Evil by RITA MAE BROWN ISBN: 0553801619 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 30 March, 2004 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Cat in a Midnight Choir : A Midnight Louie Mystery by Carole Nelson Douglas ISBN: 0812570219 Publisher: Forge Pub. Date: 18 May, 2003 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: The Cat Who Talked Turkey by Lilian Jackson Braun ISBN: 0399151079 Publisher: Putnam Pub Group Pub. Date: 26 January, 2004 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
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Title: Cat Fear No Evil : A Joe Grey Mystery by Shirley Rousseau Murphy ISBN: 0066209498 Publisher: HarperCollins Pub. Date: 02 March, 2004 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Cat in an Indigo Mood : A Midnight Louie Mystery by Carole Nelson Douglas ISBN: 0812561872 Publisher: Forge Pub. Date: 15 October, 1999 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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