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swiftie4evr's review against another edition
it was pawfect!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
xhekap30's review against another edition
adventurous
emotional
funny
lighthearted
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
heathersbike's review against another edition
Somehow managed to miss two. Guess I should have waited (two new characters!) but overall not a big deal. And I needed to purge Twilight from my brain.
sandraagee's review against another edition
3.0
My 3rd grader is obsessed with Dog Man. She's also still very interested in sharing things that she likes with me, so she asked if I would read this book with her. I have a standing policy where I don't read graphic novels out loud to my children. I adore graphic novels, and I'm glad they do too, but I just don't think they read aloud very well because you have to take in the pictures as you are reading the text, and it can be hard to keep pace. So instead she insisted that we would sit together and just read to ourselves quietly. Smart kid, that one.
I'm clearly missing some context since this is Book 9 and I have to date only really read Book 1. Apparently Petey is a good guy now? Did he get a redemption arc somewhere? There are also some new friends that I didn't really know but recognize a bit from the cover art on other books. Even without this context, however, I was able to follow the story just fine. And...the story was surprisingly good. I think this volume, perhaps all of the later volumes, relied less on the trope of being created by 6th graders (bad spelling, weird kid humor, etc.) and stepped the storytelling up a bit.
Still not clear if the literary references in the titles have anything to do with the plot. I have never read Crime and Punishment so couldn't really say. A Wikipedia read on the Russian novel was unhelpful.
I'm clearly missing some context since this is Book 9 and I have to date only really read Book 1. Apparently Petey is a good guy now? Did he get a redemption arc somewhere? There are also some new friends that I didn't really know but recognize a bit from the cover art on other books. Even without this context, however, I was able to follow the story just fine. And...the story was surprisingly good. I think this volume, perhaps all of the later volumes, relied less on the trope of being created by 6th graders (bad spelling, weird kid humor, etc.) and stepped the storytelling up a bit.
Still not clear if the literary references in the titles have anything to do with the plot. I have never read Crime and Punishment so couldn't really say. A Wikipedia read on the Russian novel was unhelpful.
warmwinters's review against another edition
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
funny
hopeful
informative
inspiring
lighthearted
mysterious
reflective
relaxing
sad
tense
medium-paced
4.0
It was a good book
elisergray's review against another edition
3.0
I needed a last minute book to finish my 2022 reading challenge, and I asked my son if I could read one of his books. He brought me this one and said “it’s boring for grownup.” And I said, “Why did you bring me a boring book?” And he said, “Because you read boring books.”
It was as I expected, but then I was pleasantly surprised by the poignant themes of love and forgiveness running through it.
It was as I expected, but then I was pleasantly surprised by the poignant themes of love and forgiveness running through it.
suspiciouspinecone's review against another edition
4.0
I love that this is a series about a police officer who has a dog head, yet the second main character is somehow a redeemed villain cat, and that these two have shared custody of a kitten who is the living embodiment of everything good in the world. It just makes me so happy.
This time, the main life lesson is the importance of forgiving people and letting go of hate, even when the other person could not be less sorry. That made for a remarkably emotional ending.
I love it.
TW: absent fathers
This time, the main life lesson is the importance of forgiving people and letting go of hate, even when the other person could not be less sorry. That made for a remarkably emotional ending.
I love it.
TW: absent fathers