Mort

Some interesting ideas and a fun read, but it sometimes felt rushed, as if the author had lots of ideas to put down but didn't take the time to tie these thoughts into a cohesive and structured story.
If you enjoy B movies you'll likely enjoy this; but as the range of ratings shows, this isn't a book for everyone.

So I had the temerity to chide my niece on her kitty fantasy series Warriors only to find myself picking this sci-fi book focused on an ant uprising bent on destroying the humans and an evolved house cat in the animal army looking for her lost love, the neighbour's dog. Seriously.

So naturally when you write adult fiction about gun-toting animals I assume there's some deep moral centre to the whole endeavour. There's an easy joke about a pig naming himself Bonaparte (since Napoleon was taken multiple times already) There's also a surreal moment when a real-estate cat coughs up a hairball into her clipboard and tries to hide it.

So I'm not sure if I'm reading an anthromorphized moral story about the power of love, notions of faith and the idea that some are more equal than others or a post-apocalyptic, furry fantasy.