Monday, June 25, 2012

Review: Bad Kitty

Title Bad Kitty (Bad Kitty 1)
By Michele Jaffe
Genre YA contemporary
Pages 268
Recommended by My mom

First sentence I believe everyone has a superpower.

Synopsis 
Jasmine has become a little obsessed with solving mysteries despite her father's disapproval. But she never goes looking for trouble...it just seems to find her. While on vacation with her family in Las Vegas, Jasmine gets involved in a mystery when a three legged cat jumps in her lap and refuses to let go. Even with the help of her friends this might be one mystery Jasmine might not solve not with her life intact anyway.

What it has going for it
In the same vein of Georgia Nicolson and Ruby Oliver, Jasmine's voice had me laughing out loud on every page! In fact, if you took GN or RO and threw them into a mystery you might get something similar to this book. Not to say Jaffe hasn't created something unique here. Her writing is unique and hilarious not to mention creative. With larger than life characters that I don't doubt will stick with me for some time, and a spunky MC this book was tons of fun. The mystery wasn't horribly obvious to me and in a mystery book that's a good thing. Far too often I have the whole story predicted within the first 20 or so pages. I kid you not!  Not here, though.

What's lacking
I don't want to say anything mean about this one because I'm 99% sure any dislike was totally a mood thing. For example I read the first fifty pages and was heehawing and immensely enjoying myself and then, when I picked it up again, I was having a hard time getting into the language and humor. THEN when I picked it up again I was all laughy again. See? I'm pretty sure it was a mood thing. However, I can say with some certainty that this was ridiculously unbelievable. So much happened that just would not actually happen in real life. But, hey, they don't call it fiction for nothing. 

Favorite moment
When Jasmine starts taking off Jack's clothes (to look for clues) and sees his snoopy boxers. Priceless. Or should I say, Mastercard? 

Yea or Nay?
If you love to laugh and like mystery I'd highly recommend it. 

22 comments:

  1. hahaha. This sounds like my kind of book. I will definitely have to check it out!

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  2. Yay. Im in the mood for something funny after reading a lot of disappointing YA paranormal.

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    1. Ugh! I totally understand. I sometimes just need a break from all the paranormal/fantasy/supernatural crap!

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  3. Glad you enjoyed it! It had me laughing. Sometimes I love books that are totally improbable.

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    1. I love books that are improbable but this one was pretty ridiculous.

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  4. I love that your mom recommended a book to you (and you liked it. My mom and I definitely don't share reading tastes...) This sounds really cute. I'll have to check it out.

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    1. She usually doesn't read this type so I'm shocked she did. She does like mystery, though, and this one had plenty of that.

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  5. so... Do you have a copy of this one? or is it moms? I might like to read it.

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    1. It's mom's I'll have her bring it to you.

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  6. I don't normally read mysteries so I have been putting this one off, but maybe I will have to reconsider.

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    1. I used to love mysteries but I burned myself out on them. That may be why I had trouble with this one sometimes. The humor made up for the mystery, though. So funny!

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  7. What a cute cover! I'm not a big mystery, but I'm always up for a story that can make me laugh outloud.

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    1. I love books that make me laugh out loud!

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  8. Hey Jenny, I just read your comment on my blog. I actually wanted to contact you to participate in my blog tour, but when you didn't have a review policy posted on your site, I made the assumption you weren't open to submissions. :( Anyway, if you're still interested, I'd love to send you a review copy! Drop me a note at camillepicott at gmail dot com

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    1. Yeah, I don't have a review policy. I should fix that. I'll have to email you!

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  9. Ridiculously unbelievable books can be very fun. Glad you enjoyed this one. I'm not big on mystery but I love books that make me laugh, so I'll have to look for this one.

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    1. Yeah, I used to love mystery now, not so much. But this one's humor made the mystery worth it.

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  10. This book sounds really good! It kind of sounds similar to Deadly Cool and I really liked that one so I'll have to give this one a try for sure! I'm not bothered at all by ridiculously unbelievable. Sometimes it's good just to laugh!

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    1. I haven't read Deadly Cool but I've been dying to get my hands on it.

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  11. It's good to know that YA mysteries still exist. I've almost given up on finding those because it looks like only adult books are sorted by genre.

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    1. Yes, there's not many but there are some. I haven't read Deadly Cool but I know it's a YA mystery too.

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