Review: Not bad, but hit one of my pet peeves
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 04 10, 2012
I liked the book, but with reservations. I'm a dog person, so of course the dog as a main character encouraged me to try this. Good characterization, well developed main characters and a reasonably interesting plot although some parts of it seemed disconnected and difficult to follow.The first of two major issues was that I just flat did not like the main female character, she was short tempered, lost her temper (often without apparent reason) with everyone including her husband and did things that often seemed irrational.The other issue is absolutely a personal one for me. Why do authors insist on including a supposedly purebred animal (dog, horse or something else) as a character in a book and then give them attributes that absolutely do not occur in a purebred animal of that breed? I've been an animal person all my life, raised, trained and shown dogs, horses, cattle and rabbits and this just simply is one of my pet peeves. Either make it a non-purebred or do your research.