Tailchaser's Song

By: Tad Williams

Narrated by: Alex Kydd

More than 35 years ago, a young author surprised and enchanted audiences with his first novel - the story of Fritti Tailchaser, a courageous tom cat in a world of whiskery heroes and villains, of feline gods and strange, furless creatures called M'an.

The book was Tailchaser's Song, the author was Tad Williams. The legend was born.

©1985 Tad Williams; Introduction copyright 2000 by Tad Williams (P)2021 Tantor

Good first novel

Tailchaser's song is a rather good, if not great, book. It has some very interesting and very creative ideas, however it does lack a little in some of the characters and character development. Basically, it has the feel of an author's (good) first book.

Cat lovers delight!

I had my reservations but this book exceeded my expectations. Being told by a wild cat's view, with their own culture is a great tale.

An epic journey of wonder and discovery

Read this in high school and it is still as wondrous as when I first went on an adventure with Fritti Tailchaser. For anyone who loves Lord of the Rings and wide-eyed adventure you be sure to enjoy Tailchaser’s journey through the world of talking animals and the mysteries contained therein.

Finally an audiobook

I found this book many years ago. It is my go-to book when I need a warm fuzzy blanket wrapped around me. I am on my second copy of the book, the first is falling apart. When I saw that there was finally a recording, I was overjoyed.
The story is wonderful, a cat’s biggest adventure with many vibrant characters.
Recording is good but not perfect. I sped up to 1.2x and found it agreeable. Occasionally volume dips, not sure if that’s editing or narration.
Overall enjoyable and will keep it in my library for those rainy days and Mondays.

The narration really kills it...

The story itself is great! I was not expecting the supernatural turn of events, and kept trying to think of what natural predator was taking and killing cats.
The narrator though....everything sounds like it was recorded on cheap equipment. He has very little range in character voices, and gave the villians overly cartoony sounding ones. His manner of speaking made this book such a slog to get through, I nearly stopped listening entirely. Reaching the supernatural aspect of the story is all that kept me going. Now I'm just left dissapointed at how great this could have been with a more talented narrator.
This is one you'll enjoy more reading normally, unless you're not particularly bothered by poor narration.