Felidae is darkly funny, curiously intriguing, action filled... and badly written. watch the movie.

This is such a great concept!! A murder mystery with cats??? sign me tf up. Grumpy neighbourhood cat francis gets roped into playing detective after many neighbourhood cats begin to be murdered.

This book is filled with so many unexpected pop culture references which I fully enjoyed. I also massively appreciated how much research pirincci did on cats to really make this an accurate portrayal of how they actually act!! from having sex to social behaviours, he really paid close attention to detail with fully explained footnotes. the humor was dark and right up my street, and I did on the whole enjoy this story!!

"but elle, you rated this three stars!" I hear you cry. Yes, yes I did. Because even though I loved the story and the characters, there was a huge problem with this book. You can create a good concept and characters, but writing them down is another situation all together, and honestly, Pirincci sucked. For note, I am reading a translated edition from the original German, but I honestly don't think this is why I had such a hard time with this.

when I started to read this book, I was doing okay with it. However, there is a part of the book (I won't spoil it) where the narrative voice changes and that certain part was INCREDIBLE. I was IN LOVE with the words and what was going on. If I could rate that specific section it would be five stars. I would read an entire book with that narrator. But then, I returned to the situation at hand, and realised that I was really disappointed to no longer be reading that section anymore. this was when I started to have problems: the plot got dull and tedious 3/4s in, "big reveals" started to become very obvious, even at the end when things start to get revealed I got SO MAD because all the things I had recognised earlier as being overlooked were becoming major plot points. THINGS WERE TOO OBVIOUS. The ending did pique my interest again, and was a ~good~ finale, but it was not enough to save the book. The messages intended to come across were so decent but badly handled, and I really see this as such a shame.

there's many more things I could go on about that annoyed me, but I really want to keep this short. This is a good story that was put on paper by the wrong person. however, I feel like this story in its lessons is really important to me, so if you can I really want to recommend the film adaptation. I haven't seen it as of yet, but my friend is lucky enough to have this on dvd so I will update this to confirm my theory (I have no doubt in my mind that it is worth it.)