Mort(e)

Mort(e) is about the housecat formerly called Sebastian, transformed into a catman by the ant-queen's master plan to uplift the animals and destroy the humans, and his quest to find his doggy friend Sheeba. It's also the story of the Nameless war between the humans and the ant-queen's army.

I don't know if Mort(e) suffered from the literary ennui that I acquired reading The Yiddish Policemen's Union at the same time, but I had a hard time bringing myself to care about Mort(e) or his quest. Even after the initial brain-spasms of accepting the nonsensical premise of the book...

...I just didn't care. I couldn't root for the animals and I couldn't root for the humans. I could sortof root for Mort(e) if he was doing anything other than aimlessly looking for his dog friend until he became "more".

Blerg. Skip it unless you have a strange urge to punish yourself until you believe that most science fiction/fantasy/romance books about cats are crap. I have this urge and one day I will stop buying these books.