Heartland Reviews -- Rating: 5 hearts  (out of 5) --  (www.heartlandreviews.com)

For: The Cats of Storm Mountain by McKay Daines

"This is a wonderful adventure book, written with animal characters like Jacques’ Red Wall series. Young Alley Cat is tired of being a servant in the Mayor’s household. He’d much rather be out on his own, seeking his fortune. He becomes mixed up in a blackmail scheme that targets the four most powerful members of the town in Rainbow Valley, including the mayor. He is exiled to the forests surrounding Storm mountain and would die of inexperience except for being befriended by Cougar and Bobcat, two Huckleberry Flynn-like characters who love being free to do whatever they want more than anything else in the world.

The author has taken stories his father used to make up and finely crafted them into an excellent book. This is a master craftsman of a writer who knows how to leave the reader hanging at the end of every chapter. Young adults and mid-grades will anxiously await the next book from his keyboard. His illustrator brother is every bit as good producing superlative pencil and pen drawings of the characters and their actions throughout the book. The book cover is eye-catching, the back cover has exciting blurbs from accomplished writers. We predict this may become a classic series and rate the book five hearts."

Review will appear in our July/August/September issue.

Bob Spear
Publisher and Chief Reviewer
Heartland Reviews
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Title: The Cats of Storm Mountain
Author: McKay Daines

Illustrator: Cameron Daines
Publisher and/or Distributor: Shine Publishing

Publisher Website: www.shinepublishing.com  www.catsofstorm.com
Pages: 279
ISBN: 0-9749467-1-0

Price: $28.95
Publishing Date: 2004
Reader: Bob Spear