Ratters

by L.J. Craven

The first book in the Ghosts of Shady Ly series, The Glaring arc, RATTERS sees the start of the cat's rise against humans.
Dust is a Ratter, a cat bred and raised in the Ratevict Laboratory. His only purpose is to control vermin in human industrial buildings. He has never seen the outside world, and as he was trained to hunt mechanical Ratbots, he has never met a real rat.

Now Dust has been taken to The Boxes, a vast and shadowy human place, where he meets eight other Ratters; an inquisitive group of cats willing to share their incredible kittenhood tales and hazy fragments of memory. So, when Dust remembers his own lost mother, he's easily convinced that his haunting dreams of her are real and showing him how to escape.

keen to explore their new home, the Ratters discover boxes after boxes behind doors and inside boxes, many humans and their curious objects, an organised and intelligent group of rats and an old tom cat through a hole in the wall. And as every new encounter provides more compelling evidence that The Outside must be real, they set about planning their escape. But is the shifty rat leader telling the truth? is the cat in the hole crazy? And do they really have evidence that The Outside exists, or just hope?

Then, as their plans for escape are foiled by the observant humans, Dust's only remaining hope is to follow his haunting dreams. But when this leads to tragedy, he finds himself in a race against time to get every cat out of The Boxes.

371 pages, Kindle Edition

Published November 26, 2021

Reviews

[Jordan Hawkins · Rating 2 out of 5]

For the first in the series I did enjoy it but struggled with some of the descriptions. It is a good story but there were some bits that made me unhappy, overall I’d say to give it a try.