Pete the Cat gets a brilliant idea of starting a leprechaun chasing business. Friends approach him to ask for help related to different problems that they are having, and Pete follows the rainbow to its end to find Clover, a leprechaun. Most of the time Clover evades him, singing a new song each time. Does Pete need the leprechaun for luck and to help his friends, or was it inside him all along?

The storyline doesn’t rise to the excellence of previous Pete the Cat books, but is a serviceable St. Patrick’s Day book if you need more in your collection. Additionally, it would fill the needs of your most ardent Pete the Cat fanatics. The illustrations are typical of a book in this series: simplistic and full of color. A poster, stickers, and 12 St. Patrick’s Day cards are included.

Previously reviewed here: https://mslbookreview.org/pete-the-cat-the-great-leprechaun-chase/

This was long. It's funny, the same characters I love in Les Miz are the ones that I tended to like more here. It was fun to see what was the same, and what was different. It's also scary to see how easily the written word can disappear, and what happens when it does.

It's going to end up being way longer than the original, isn't it?

French does a really good job of racheting up the tension in this one. I was on the edge of my seat many, many times. It felt like Maine, and even if I had a few guesses about which town it was, nothing about the setting was so unusual that it felt like a made up place. The kids seemed pretty realistic, but maybe a little more laissez-faire than I would have thought (but then, they aren't necessarily a group I would have been hanging out with.) The girl-fighting though (cold shoulder)--that felt real. I thought the ending wrapped up very quickly, and not necessarily in a way that felt like it went with all the build-up.

Beautiful, haunting prose about some dark stuff. Beth Teller is a dead 15 year old who narrates half the book, trying to help her father move on and solve this mystery about a fire. When they meet Isabel Catching, what seems like a simple fire suddenly becomes something different. Catching also narrates some of the book. You won't forget this one.

Beautiful writing, an complicated weaving back and forth in time, and it goes a lot of places I thought it wouldn't. It definitely goes to a lot of tough topics, and I agree with Maria that it's for a mature reader.

Excellent narrator. Jack meets Kate at a party one night, and falls hard. Unfortunately, Kate has a life-threatening illness, which is not revealed until halfway through the book. Somehow, after Kate's death, Jack gets thrown back in time to the same moment, which he lives over and over again. Can he make the right choices to end the loop? I didn't necessarily understand why Jack was so into Kate, but if I accept that premise, it's a good story. It's just hard for adult me to see myself doing what Jack does. Maybe I'm just not romantic enough. I do think this story is important as a normal story with people of color in the lead roles and it's not an issue book.

This book alternates between Chrystal and Logan's perspectives, as they investigate what Logan saw one night on his Oklahoma farm. I appreciated the small-town perspective, where getting lights requires traveling to a city hours away when the local hardware store ends up running out. I liked the way Chrystal was determined to save her family and friends herself, rather than letting men do it for her. There was a little bit of insta-love, but I think when you are in crazy adrenaline-pumping situations, that can happen.

I devoured this one. So easy to read. Dislike John Mayer immensely now.

An excellent overview of the whole program. It was neat to see what they changed for the movie.

I haven't read as much Gaiman as you would think, but this was beautiful and I really enjoyed it. Wish I could have joined in book club but the weather had other plans.