Blurb for the back cover:
“Feels as if Maupin was just trying to make things as crazy as possible”

More Tales of the City picks up shortly after Tales of the City. Everybody is still going about their daily routine. Mouse and Mary Ann go on a cruise and meet a mysterious stranger while Mona impulsively travels to a brothel in Nevada and discovers her past and one of Mrs. Madrigal’s secrets.

The format of this book is still the same with each chapter only taking up roughly three pages. This again makes this book very easy to pick up and read only for a few minutes before putting it back down. This could also lead to the classic “just one more chapter…” problem and several chapters later you find yourself still reading the book.

Sadly, there were a few occasions where the book got just so ridiculous that I had to put it down and walk away from it for a few days. The major difference between the first book and this one is that More Tales of the City takes more of a soap opera approach. There is amnesia, sex changes, characters that you thought were gone reappearing, and the revelation of who is Mona’s father. With the first book I thought it took just showed the lives of people living in San Fransisco. But this book feels as if Maupin was just trying to make things as crazy as possible.

I didn’t really like More Tales of the City because I had just come off reading Tales of the City and had such high expectations. After thinking about it some more post-reading, I’m pretty indifferent towards this one. As of writing this I have finished the third book in the series (Further Tales of the City) and I am glad to say that Further was much better but more on that later.

Monday, July 27th, 2009 at 9:28 am.
Filed under: 20in2009, Book Review.