Thunderpaws and the Tower of London - Ben Housden



Merci à NetGalley et à la ME pour l'envoi de ce SP

Thunderpaws, ou de son vrai nom Teufel, est un chat noir qui vient de déménager avec ses humains dans la Tour de Londres. Il ne comprend pas trop ce qu'il y fait ni pourquoi on l'affuble d'une horrible clochette qui l'empêche de s'attaquer aux corbeaux qui le narguent sans cesse. Il est encore plus surpris quand il fait la connaissance de divers fantômes qui lui donnent une mission capitale.

Toute l'histoire est racontée du point de vue de Teufel et ça rend le récit très drôle. On a droit à toutes ses réflexions de chat sur les autres animaux, sur les humains, sur tout en fait, parce que les chats opinent sur tout. C'était parfois un peu fatiguant parce que Teufel est très...primaire comme chat, à vouloir attaquer tout autre animal selon le cycle de la vie ou autre connerie.

La lecture était sympa, assez originale, mais je trouvais certaines parties incompréhensibles et malheureusement elles étaient plutôt importantes du style : comment se conclut la bataille entre fantômes et comment on comprend qui sont les gentils et qui sont les méchants. En vrai, ça ne m'a pas empêchée d'apprécier ma lecture mais elle ne me donne pas envie de continuer la série (on a un aperçu de l'histoire du deuxième tome et vu que ça parle de voyage dans le temps, j'ai peur d'être encore plus perdue).


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Thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for sending me this eArc !

Thunderpaws (his real name is Teufel, thank you very much) is a black cat who recently moved to the Tower of London with his humans. He doesn't understand this nor why his human puts a bell on his collar which doesn't allow him to attack the ravens. He's even more surprised when he meets some ghosts who tell him that he is on a mission...

The story is told through the eyes of Teufel and his opinions on everything are very funny, even though sometimes I wanted to give him some sense.

It was a great read, very original, but I had some trouble to understand some parts which were pretty important like the ending or how he knew which ghosts were the good ones. It didn't bother me too much but I won't be continuing the series as the next book talks about time travel.

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