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A review by strawberrybirds
Three Bags Full by Leonie Swann
3.0
George the shepherd dies mysteriously and is found in his field with a spade in his chest. His sheep find him first and set out to solve his murder.
The premise is cute and the author does a good job imagining how the sheep might think. What they would understand and not understand about humans. Seeing the story through the eyes of the sheep means we know (and don’t know) what they do, and as such or can be hard to follow at times.
Although certainly cute at times and interesting at others, the mystery is less solved and more told at the end of the book. The sheep’s investigations only do a little to make an impact on the end result.
If you like cute books with anthropomorphized animals, you may enjoy this, but for me, the mystery part left something to be desired.
The premise is cute and the author does a good job imagining how the sheep might think. What they would understand and not understand about humans. Seeing the story through the eyes of the sheep means we know (and don’t know) what they do, and as such or can be hard to follow at times.
Although certainly cute at times and interesting at others, the mystery is less solved and more told at the end of the book. The sheep’s investigations only do a little to make an impact on the end result.
If you like cute books with anthropomorphized animals, you may enjoy this, but for me, the mystery part left something to be desired.