Chapter One Hundred Thirty-Three: Cat out of Hell

Cat out of Hell is a novel by Lynne Truss of grammar manifesto Eats, Shoots & Leaves fame, and I have to say that I think I preferred Eats, Shoots & Leaves (though I am something of a grammar nut, so maybe it's not that surprising).  Anyway, when I discovered Truss had recently published a novel about talking cats (liking cats about as much as I like grammar, which is rather a lot), I decided I had to read it.  While Cat out of Hell has its truly hilarious moments, mostly it's darker than I expected it to be from reading the dust jacket--at times it is quite dark, in fact, rather more so than I would like.  Darkness aside, this is also one of the stranger books I've read, and while I'm fairly open to the strange, Cat out of Hell was nearing the limits of my strangeness tolerance.  Still, the characters and plot held my interest, and I was certainly kept guessing until the end of the book, so on the whole, I guess I would recommend Cat out of Hell with the reservation that you need to be open to reading quite an odd little book about evil talking cats.