I’m re-reading The Wild Road for the first time since I read it when it came out.
I make no apologies, I’m Cat Guy, so maybe that colors my taste, but I remember these books fondly. I’m about halfway through the first one now - Sealink and Pertelot are on their voyage where the Queen discovers she’s expecting.
Anyone else a fan of these books? Maybe it’s me, but there seems to be a style change in King’s writing between the two. But they both satisfied me regardless.
Something that I find myself doing that other cat owners that I know have also done, is to “assign” the personalities of cat’s they know, or knew to the characters in the book.
My Majicou was Ernie (The Best Cat Ever). Though Ernie was orange, this was him. Dominant, wise, intimidating yet tolerable in the end to the protoge Tag…
Who was and always will be Dino. Another Orange that I got 2 months after Ernie took a walk with the angels. Dino was my good kid while I read these the first time, and I remember looking up from the book to see him watching me and knowing he was thinking of me as a dull.
Oddly enough, I see Erica as Sealink, even though Ernie was part Maine Coon. (Remember we’re talking personality, not physical likeness) A lady through and through, yet tougher than any male she came across (except Ernie), smart, savvy and she saw it all.
Sadly, at this reading, I’d have to paint Cy, a female as Cuervo , a male. I love the little guy, but so far he has done little to impress me with his 'groundedness" That cat acts like he’s got a spark plug implant between his ears to communicate with a mother planet somewhere. Just last night I was reading a section describing Cy dancing around and talking nonsense sentence fragments and I looked up to see Cuervo doing somersaults to chase his tail. Not chasing it in circles flat on the ground, like a normal cat, but tumbling across the floor like a deranged cheerleader.
I read these books before I had read any Terry Pratchett, so it didn’t mean much to me then, but one of the jacket cover recommendations is from him.
