Sleight of paw

Listening to audio book. A nice light-hearted murder mystery with a couple of cats helping a librarian. Cats and books are always good together. This one is set roughly a year after book one. I enjoyed the characters and the story line. I look forward to listening to book 3 in the series.

This is the second book in the Magical Cats mystery series, and overall I enjoyed it. The characters are entertaining, and the way the mystery was structured made a certain amount of sense. I would have liked to see a bit more of the cats, but you can't always get everything you want. I already have the third book in the series out from the library, and look forward to reading it.

Unfortunately, the copy-editing and proofreading of this book were both sub-par. This is probably due to the nature of the “serial cozy mystery” genre, which seems to have a focus on quick turnaround times for publication. The text of this book contains a lot of typos, most of the “missing an entire word” sort with a few of the “wrong homonym” variety cropping up here and there. While I know it is nearly impossible to catch all the typos within a manuscript, there is a big difference between missing one or two things and missing twenty or more that even a quick read-through should have caught.

Ultimately the typos did not affect my overall enjoyment of the story, but I think I would have been more disappointed had I purchased the book rather than borrowing it from my local library.