LitPick Review
Chester, the cat, isn’t your ordinary housecat. Instead, he’s a furball that wears a tinfoil hat because he is preventing the aliens from talking to him. He’s so eccentric that all the neighborhood animals think he’s flat-out crazy. You see, he has made some strange predictions about aliens, lizard people, governmental plots, and just everyday odd thoughts. When he shares them with the neighborhood animals, they just keep Chester at a distance. But when he makes a prediction about their humans all wearing muzzles, them staying home watching their glowing boxes, and them partaking in mass pharmaceutical experimentations, the animals start listening to what he has to say because each one of his ideas starts coming true. Chester must really know what he’s talking about after all.
As each animal begins to see their humans falling into the exact pattern of what Chester said would happen, they must band together to take down the Big Pharma company, Sizer, and they will do it one lab location at a time. They must save their humans from the vaccine experimentation that is happening around the country. Does Chester and his cohorts succeed at destroying the Sizer vaccines in all the labs that are close to them?
Opinion:
Right from the start I felt that Ms. Infidel had a sense of humor like no other author I read. From having crazy Chester the cat wearing his tinfoil hat to prevent alien communication from happening, to trying to destroy all the Sizer vaccines the animals could get their paws on, I knew I would love this story right from the first page. The humor is one in which you have to let the puns roll as you turn the pages. She has a way of making you laugh-out-loud because you just don’t know what thought she will come up with next. To add the cherry on the top, she has Chester and his cohorts executing all these crazy antics in the process.
Infidel’s creativity with the characters was unbelievably detailed. She molded each character to be uniquely different from the rest, but each one’s uniqueness made the whole story blend into a story that was believable in its own crazy way. Besides loving crazy Chester, I truly enjoyed Hal, the experimental lab rat that was working closely with Chester’s group. Because of all his past experimentation “jobs,” poor Hal had a memory issue that would make him forget what he was talking about from time to time. I laughed-out-loud every time he would carry on a plan of action with the group of animals and midway through he would lose his train of thought. I truly saw these scenes playing out as if I was watching a movie. As a matter of fact, this satirical story is so entertaining, it should be made into a movie!
The author had penned a previous book, Tales of American Idiocy, which was a collection of short stories wrapped around Chester the cat. His popularity was so great that she decided to write a full length animal satire book for her fans to enjoy. I didn’t have the pleasure of reading the first book, but that didn’t hinder me from enjoying this book fully. I had no problem picking this story up as the first book I read and I fell right into the rhythm of the story. So if you didn’t have the opportunity to read the first book, you won’t be lost if you make this book the first one you read.
Overall, Conspiracy Crew: The End is Meow is one book in which you can really kick your feet up and know you will have a howling good time of a read. The story is funny, the characters add layers to the storyline, and everything just comes together nicely for you to enjoy. I highly recommend this book!
