I feel bad giving this only three stars. But after reading Bloody Jack... well, let's just say Cat Royal is no Jacky Farber. It was a little flat with everything all tied up nicely in the end, and I had a hard time getting to know the characters. I think this is because it's the third book in the series, but still it should stand on its own. Otherwise just make one big book instead of writing a series. Lots of other reviews mentioned that it's for younger readers, and I think that's a good thing to remember. I'm sure i'd like it tremendously if I hadn't read Bloody Jack and was 9.

i really loved this book and cat iliterally didnt stop till i read the whole series!

Same complaints as the previous ones but again another good story.

Fast-paced. Not amazingly written but good enough for me.

I love, love, love Cat. And Syd (I think that's how you spell it). And them together, regardless of what my big sister insists, I love them.

And Johnny, and J-F, and Lizzie and Frank and Pedro and etc etc etc.

this one was just as good as the rest of the series. Cat is really funny and so adventerous, though im glad these things happen to her, not me.

It was good, just like the others. Still the aspect of some language. She almost gets herself killed-again. I really like these books!

Volume three of the Cat Royal series sees Cat lose the only home she has ever known at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, when Richard Brinsley Sheridan decides to have it demolished and replaced by a new, better theatre. After being cast adrift on the streets of London she has some adventures with Mr. Tweadle, a bookseller and publisher born without scruples. Luckily Sheridan's conscience is pricked and he finds her again only to send her over to France to act as his personal spy reporting to him on the state of the growing Revolution.

Wisely the author chooses the period of the Revolution before the Terror so bloodshed is kept to a minimum, though Cat and Frank come very close to being hanged from a lamppost. Robespierre has a very brief walk-on role as a disgruntled lawyer but I felt it a pity that Cat didn't meet with M. Guillotin. He could have been pondering on a mechanical device for slicing carrots when she offered him common sense advice on the efficacy of a falling blade. A lightbulb moment ensues. And, yes, I know that Joseph Ignace Guillotin did not invent the guillotine and he disapproved of capital punishment but, come on, it's artistic license.

Cat prowls the streets of Paris while under cover of being a very unconvincing ballerina in training and eventually falls in with one of the criminal gangs of the city controlled by a teenager known as “J-F”. He is perhaps the least likely character in the book, a cross between a juvenile Errol Flynn, Hercules Grytpype-Thynne (a character from The Goon Show) and Fred Astaire. There is a little love affair blooming with Cat which, in this volume, leads only to Cat's escape from France. I found it hard to believe someone as light-weight would not be swallowed up in the bloodiness that was about to descend on France. He was light on his feet and quick-witted but for survival give me M. Ibrahim, the Bishop of the Notre Dame Thieves, any time.

It was a fine historical romp with a lead actor who stands head and shoulders above the supporting cast. Vive le chat!

I love that this is my last book for the year. It's such a good one to go out on.
Happy New Year everyone!

What has happened to our beloved Cat Royal? Gone is our spunky heroine whose optimistic chear and wit gets her in and out of trouble, gone is the self assured young lady who mingles with the poorest of poor, the highest of high, and those in between. Suddenly we have an uncertain, weak, *simpering*, teenager whose hormones seemed to have kicked in!
Though scattered references and sightings of people like Marie Antoinette and Rospierre (sp?) may be amusing, the whole 'glory of the French Revolution' gets annoying.
Old Characters are back and new one shoulder in as well, but it can't save this book from being a huge disapointment.

Set in the 1700's in England the Cat Royal Series chronicles the many adventures of young Cat, an orphan, raised - so to speak - under the patronage of a Parliament member Mr. Sheridan and owner of the Drury Lane Theater. In the Den of Thieves, the company is set adrift when Mr. Sheridan decides to raze and remodel the theater. A few lucky members have employment in a sister theater, but Cat is set adrift and homeless. Too proud to tell anyone that she has no prospects and no money she is buffeted about London until she is 'rescued' by Mr. Sheridan and Frank.
Sent to France to do a bit of snooping for Mr. Sheridan Cat gets a first hand look at the French Revolution. Always an appealing character, Cat's adventures and the rogues she meets make great acquaintances.

I did ship two characters but unfortunately it was not meant to be.