Diane Duane
Paperback | Pages: 464 pages Rating: 4.06 | 2043 Users | 141 Reviews
Itemize Containing Books The Book of Night with Moon (Feline Wizards #1)
| Title | : | The Book of Night with Moon (Feline Wizards #1) |
| Author | : | Diane Duane |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 464 pages |
| Published | : | March 1st 1999 by Warner Books (NY) (first published 1997) |
| Categories | : | Fantasy. Fiction. Young Adult. Animals. Cats. Urban Fantasy |
Narrative Concering Books The Book of Night with Moon (Feline Wizards #1)
Rhiow seems a perfectly ordinary New York City cat. Or so her humans think -- but she is much more than she appears. With her partners Saash and Urruah, she collaborates with human wizards to protect the earth from dark forces and maintain the network of magical gateways that connect to different realities. But amid this amazing secret animal world lies a danger that threatens not only the cats of the world, but humans as well.Present Books During The Book of Night with Moon (Feline Wizards #1)
| Original Title: | The Book of Night with Moon (Cats of Grand Central, #1) |
| ISBN: | 0446606332 (ISBN13: 9780446606332) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | Feline Wizards #1 |
| Characters: | Rhiow, Saash, Urruah, Arhu |
| Setting: | Manhattan, New York City, New York(United States) |
Rating Containing Books The Book of Night with Moon (Feline Wizards #1)
Ratings: 4.06 From 2043 Users | 141 ReviewsRate Containing Books The Book of Night with Moon (Feline Wizards #1)
This book is the SHIT. I don't even LIKE cats and this book is, still, the SHIT.What an odd book, in an interesting way. The author elevates cats as a species to a position of power in the universe, although they operate outside the awareness of most humans. Add in the concept of wizards and magic, plus a few (million) dinosaurs, and the story gets complicated.
This is an amusing book, but it also has more depth to it than you'd expect from a book about cat wizards. It discusses silly things like how cats can seem to appear out of thin air, but also more serious things like entropy and choice and why even fights that seem hopeless are worth fighting.That is actually what I like the most about this whole greater world... the Young Wizards series as well as the Feline Wizards series. It is a set of fun stories that tell deeper truths; YA novels that
I enjoyed this intricate story about a team of cat wizards. Sometimes I felt that some details of the magic were beyond my comprehension but I appreciated the complexity of the magic in this world. Diane Duane does a great job of writing the feline wizards and I look forward to reading more of their adventures.
I love Duane's "Young Wizards", but had only heard of this companion book once. But regardless, knowing how successful Duane is in writing I had to snag this book when I saw it for sale at a used book store. Seriously, $3.50 is a steal. The entire cat culture described in this book is phenomenal; so detailed and yet also not entirely fiction. Yes, this is a fantasy novel, but everything is so plausible. If cat wizards did exist, they would behave exactly like this. And the word crafting! Duane
Throughout the Young Wizards books we hear about cat wizards. They are the only ones with the correct sort of vision to work the world gates at Grand Central Station. They have their own culture and their own ideas about wizardry and humanity. Obviously a book about that culture is enticing, but in execution, I found it hard to immerse myself in the story. Too much of this book is about explaining that culture. Words are repeated in the cat language. Puns in the cat language are explained after
This book has been standing on my shelf for 8 years before I got around to reading it...! I love the idea of the book - cats as wizards, working together with human wizards, trying to save humankind, from heat disaster but more urgently from about a billion dinosaurs trying to enter this world and eat us all! My favourite part in the book is when Pavarotti gets eaten by a dinosaur - how many other book does that happen in???I liked the whole parallel universe ideas, where wizards are able to
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