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Query: where was the plot?

I know these books have been declining in quality for several years. I don't even read them anymore for anything other than amusing characters and something to do for an afternoon. But this one was amazingly formulaic.There was no plot. Not even a remotely interesting one. The ghost writer (since the original author is blatantly no longer writing these) brought in characters from several books ago and introduced boring subplots in places no one cares about. Not only that, but the obvious marketing of the other two recent short books (The Private Life of the Cat Who & Short and Tall Tales) was absoutely ridiculous. To completely reprint a section from each of those books and claim it's part of the story is not 'creative'. It just shows that the author is a talentless hack in it for the money.Don't bother reading this one.