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Origins: Book Three in the Missing Link Trilogy (Welsh Edition)

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I read the first two books and enjoyed them very much.
I was a bit put off at first when I started this one. I was expecting to read more about Christie and Tina and the rest of the folks in book 3. When Origins started talking about cats and dogs as the main characters, I wondered if I would really enjoy the story.
The author blended the stories well. Telling us about the cats and dogs of the future while reading from Christie's diary was blended well.
I hope that she doesn't stop with just these 3 books. The world that Kate has built here could very easily support many more stories.
I suppose I would have like to have seen book 3 be only about Christie and then have her start another trilogy about the cats and dogs of the future.
I'd like to see a book 4 that talks about what Christie and the rest of the Fourth World people did after the events from his diary in book 3.
I want to hear more, more and more about these wonderful characters - both Christie and the cats and dogs of the future.

A good novel should be able to stand alone, even when it is part of a series, and this one does as well as any. Most of it is departure from the previous two novels. It is set far in the future, and the narrative gradually reveals a deeply divided human society of "Cats" and "Dogs" and "grunts." The genetically-altered Cats and Dogs live apart and feel superior to each other, but trade and a certain amount of mutual support create a fragile bond that is shattered by mutual misunderstanding and aggression. As the two central characters (one of each, of course) make their way to freedom and safety, they come to know more about each other's cultures and ask big questions about their own assumptions. Contact with "grunts" (non-altered humans) add to their broadening views. Finally, the author ties the novel closely to its two predecessors by bringing Christie's diary into the tale, and we learn about the beginnings of the world of Dogs and Cats. Young readers who have enjoyed the first two novels may be puzzled by the beginning of the tale because it seems unconnected but should feel quite satisfied with the way it all wraps up in the end.