Connoisseur of trope subversion and elegant rule dissection. Nathan Croft is a self-proclaimed first-world-fantasy-anarchist, lover/writer of contemporary, punk, sometimes morbid, dark, weird, super-happy, and literary fantasy & mythology. In the future, I would definitely be interested in reading more books by this author… and hopefully a sequel to this one. And I enjoyed seeing her interacting with Tyro. I didn’t like that there wasn’t a proper resolution to part of the story at the end, but I really did love a lot of what the cat came out with. There was a lot that was intriguing about this book. While they were apparently soulless, they certainly seemed to have feelings and emotions. While it was difficult to read about the prejudice many of the characters were facing, I was intrigued by the whole concept of the beings. I cringed when I read it and actually found myself getting a bit emotional. I thought it was good to see the cat interacting with various other characters and the nine lives thing was really interesting to see… but the description of the fire was awful. It was nice to get some idea of what different aspects were in the world, even if many of those didn’t really fit in with each other. I also thought it was cool to see that the cat was named by her godfriend and how the name of the god became part of her name.

I thought the concept of the godfriends was a really cool one and it was especially good to see that many of them weren’t the obvious ones… such as Euryale and Ahmet. While things did make a bit more sense later on, I did spend an awful lot of the book completely lost about why there were a lot of modern things in what seemed like a fantasy setting. It was interesting to see bits and pieces of the world around, though I did spend a lot of the book completely confused about the kind of world they were in. And I thought the descriptions of her came across really well.

I’m not sure if her kind actually exists in mythology… but it was still an interesting concept. Since cats are my favourite animals and I adore them completely, I was really happy to see that a winged cat was one of the main characters in this book. (I received a free copy of this book in exchange for a review). The main character dies (more than once) and a few underworlds’ way of death is threatened. Against them are Japanese death gods, an underworld cult, and a fat Atlantean bureaucrat. Near Atlantis’ Chinatown, a kitten and her human campaign for homunculi rights. In a world where every culture’s mythology is real, Medusa’s sisters want revenge on Poseidon, Troy is under siege again, and the Yakuza want their homunculi (mythological artificial humans) back. Homunculus and the Cat – Just a typical kitten saves the afterlife story, disguised as a book about death. Find Online: Amazon US | Amazon UK | Goodreads

Homunculus and the Cat by Nathan Croft