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The Cat Who Went Bananas is one of the late Cat Who novels, with the formula in late comfortable form. Jim Qwilleran and the Siamese cats Koko and Yum Yum are in Pickax for another seasonal cycle, and a new resident's arrival in town brings the inevitable amateur investigation. The Moose County texture is the book's pleasure.
Braun by this point in her run is writing more anecdotally than procedurally. The plot drifts. The pleasure is mostly hanging out with the regular cast (Polly Duncan, Andrew Brodie, the various Mooseville and Pickax community fixtures) and reading the small idiosyncratic chapters Braun specializes in.
Three stars. Recommended only to series regulars. New readers should start with The Cat Who Could Read Backwards.
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