The Cat’s Maw Book One of The Shadowland Saga
by Brooke Burgess
This book has cats, what more does it need? Okay, so maybe a good story. Guess what, it has that too.
This is the story of Billy Brahm and the strange and terrible things that happen to him. Billy is a 10 year old boy that seems to be cursed, nothing goes right for him ever. Except maybe (and this is a big maybe) when he meets a certain white and black tabby cat. In fact this meeting only seems to make things worse. Or does it?
When I was young a cat was my best friend and often only friend so I know how Billy feels. Except mine never took me on adventures like this!
This book is geared toward the YA crowd but that doesn’t mean adults won’t enjoy it.
The only thing I did not care for too much were the dream sequences. Billy’s dreams (or are they glimpses into an alternate reality) are a little on the strange side (making them a little hard for me to follow and a little hard to get through), but aren’t dreams usually weird any way? I think some of the questions raised by this book will be answered in book two or others in the series to come.
One finally note on my confusion and that was with the prologue. Prologues often do confuse me until somewhere inside the body of the work it is all explained or spelled out. But after reading this entire book I am still confused. I may have missed something, but I don’t see how this fits into the story at all.
I do look forward to reading the next book in the series.
Here is the book description:
A BOY. A CAT. A NIGHTMARE LOOSED IN TWO WORLDS!
In the sleepy town of Appleton, a young loner follows a stray cat onto the road and is struck by a car. A leg is shattered, a summer is ruined, and the troubled life of Billy Brahm goes from bad…to cursed.
When the mysterious cat appears at his bedside, Billy is haunted by strange and prophetic dreams — the creatures in them speak of Watchers, and Shadows, and the Enemy that Awakens.
Does this impossible realm hold the key to healing the broken boy? Is the golden-eyed cat there to help him, or to make the nightmares come true?
Too frightened to share the truth with his strict adoptive parents, Billy realizes that the only ones he can turn to are the local vet’s daughter, the town’s ‘crazy cat lady’…
…and a mystical tiger, beckoning from his dreams.