Review: Get ready for some great pooches
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 08 5, 2013
Do your best to ignore the dreadful cover of this book.  I passed it by a number of times thinking it was some noir book.  Happily, I was so very wrong.  I finally chose it out of desperation for something to read.  The plotting, the characters,  the dialog were all wonderful.  I could see the characters, hear their voices, and feel fearful in all the right places.  I fell in love with the dogs and thought the tone just right for the relationship between dogs and owners.However, and it's a pretty significant one in spite of my accolades for the rest of the book.  I could not figure out the setting.  There were significant contradictions unless I missed something along the way.  Near the beginning , the author says the people of Seattle brought the dog park into existence.  There are numerous references to Seattle.  So far, so good.  But at the same time there re references to the weather.  This takes place in early May, but the characters talk about how hot and humid it is early morning.  Huh?  Seattle has a reputation for being very rainy, low temps, and damp for much of the year but in May?  Are people in Seattle so used to the cold that seventy degrees, for example, would be considered scorching?  It intruded into my enjoyment of the book and I felt as if the author had never been to Seattle and had done some slipshod research or else chose to ignore the facts--either of which made too much of t he rest of the book suspect.Y May