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1* DevelopmentHell: ''The Cat Who Smelled Smoke'', the planned 35th installment (including special projects) in the series. Originally scheduled for 2008, then 2009, then canceled.
2* FanonDiscontinuity: Book 29 (''The Cat Who Had 60 Whiskers'') is widely regarded as this by many fans who were outraged at the sudden and unexplained changes (Polly's departure and the burning of Qwill's barn) to the well-loved landscape of the stories.
3* ItWasHisSled: Combined with LateArrivalSpoiler, seeing as how the majority of the series takes place after the fact. Poor Aunt Fanny....
4* TheScrappy: Polly. A lot of readers found her jealous behaviour (and the fact that Qwill forgave it every time) to be incredibly grating and unrealistic.
5* SeasonalRot: The later books in the series were widely panned by both professional critics and consumer reviews, due to shoddy plotting and characterization. Many suggested that these installments were being written by a ghostwriter, though it was more likely due to author Lilian Jackson Braun's advanced age -- she was born in the 1910s, but these books kept coming out until the mid-2000s!

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