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aotora's review
2.0
I loved Bambi so I decided to pick up more books by this author. This was the first one that I picked up because I really liked the premise.
Too bad that it ended up being boring and uninteresting though.
The first half of the book dragged on and I hated the fact that the author felt the need to point out that George always agreed with his mother and they never quarreled over and over and over and that she was always refered to as Mother Marie- it just sounded odd and it started getting on my nerves and slowly driving me nuts.
The premise is actually really good. Renni is being trained to become a search and rescue war dog. It is set before world war 2 and there is a very strong theme of man vs beast- people who beat their dogs and only see them as beasts and man who love their dogs as family and never beat them - George is one of them and he proves that you can train the dog with love and no whipping whilst the other trainers beat their dogs to obedience. The second half got a bit more interesting but even then there is just "they are in the war zone, they run to the field, save some soliders, they sleep." rinse and repeat- and the ending was weirdly abrupt too. There are some character deaths but they aren't nearly as impactful as they were in Bambi, they are mainish characters too - but I feel like we don't get to know them well enough for their deaths to have any impact on the story or the reader.
The premise is good but the execution was bad in my opinion.
Too bad that it ended up being boring and uninteresting though.
The first half of the book dragged on and I hated the fact that the author felt the need to point out that George always agreed with his mother and they never quarreled over and over and over and that she was always refered to as Mother Marie- it just sounded odd and it started getting on my nerves and slowly driving me nuts.
The premise is actually really good. Renni is being trained to become a search and rescue war dog. It is set before world war 2 and there is a very strong theme of man vs beast- people who beat their dogs and only see them as beasts and man who love their dogs as family and never beat them - George is one of them and he proves that you can train the dog with love and no whipping whilst the other trainers beat their dogs to obedience. The second half got a bit more interesting but even then there is just "they are in the war zone, they run to the field, save some soliders, they sleep." rinse and repeat- and the ending was weirdly abrupt too. There are some character deaths but they aren't nearly as impactful as they were in Bambi, they are mainish characters too - but I feel like we don't get to know them well enough for their deaths to have any impact on the story or the reader.
The premise is good but the execution was bad in my opinion.
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