Cats Cradle The Golden Twine
Cats Cradle The Golden Twine approaches the fantasy genre with a gentle touch, avoiding overwhelming readers with an excess of specific terminology, names, and mythologies. Instead, it warmly welcomes readers into a cozy, candle-lit home, quickly captivating them with a vibrant, delightful, and humorous world.
The story revolves around Suri, a monster tamer and young girl in a nomadic camp community. Though her official role is more hopeful than proven, Suri possesses an encyclopedic knowledge of the local monsters, making her more informed, albeit less experienced, than the recognized monster hunters who boast about their successful hunts and kills.
Suri’s journey begins when rumors spread of a sighting of a creature known as a caitsith, an anthropomorphic cat person. Additionally, there is a mysterious wagon in town said to contain a large monster. As Suri embarks on her adventure, the world brims with potential for exploration. While this first volume doesn’t expand the scope significantly, it avoids falling into predictable fantasy tropes. Suri is not a destined warrior, there are no brooding wizard mentors guiding her, and traditional fantasy creatures like orcs and goblins are nowhere to be found.
Following the pace typical of many YA graphic novels, ‘Cat’s Cradle’ moves steadily, allowing readers to devour it in a single sitting. By the end, it feels as if it has covered the same ground that the first two chapters of a prose novel might. The story sets the narrative in motion, leaving readers eagerly anticipating the next volume.
