A review by meledits
Happily Ever Esther: Two Men, a Wonder Pig, and Their Life-Changing Mission to Give Animals a Home by Caprice Crane, Steve Jenkins, Derek Walter

1.0

This book was a big disappointment. I thought it would be a lovely light-hearted book about animals, which is just what I need now during the pandemic. Unfortunately, I realized too late that this is a sequel and that the writers assume you've read the first book and know their story. There's no attempt to explain who they are, how they met, how they came to move from DC to a farm in Canada. I think one of them might be Scottish, and there's a brief mention that the other guy was a magician (What?!). I have no sense of their prior lives or their personalities. And the writing is more like "and this happened and then this happened," rather than telling engaging stories about Esther and the other animals. I only read half the book, and it was mostly about their very grumpy pig Esther misbehaving constantly and how one of their sets of parents didn't seem to understand what was so lovely about having a grumpy, 650-pound pig as an indoor pet. Enough.