What to say about 'The Cat and the City'? Any book that opens on a sleezy tattoist maturating in their open shop can only go two ways...
Within pages I was hooked. I haven't read a book this spellbinding in a long time. Though the cat touches the lives of each person in the story, this is a book truely about people. People living their lives in the madness that is Tokyo. The Olympics loom and are the homeless being removed from the streets? Does everyone feel so alone in Tokyo? Will a robot change the life of a little girl.
It's a book of the city, of Japanese culture, of myth and legend. Of a little calico cat.
Each chapter is different yet each person's life is beautifully entwinned with the others. A different person with a different life, yet still so entwinned.
Inbetween reads, I couldn't stop thinking about the book and where it would take it's characters next. It's reminded me just how much I love Japan and it's culture.
I loved it. So much more than what I thought it'd be. I'd fully recommend it, indeed I already have!

I recieved this book for free from NetGallery in return for my honest review.