A review by kyzclaw
A Dog's Promise by W. Bruce Cameron

3.0

I was lucky enough to win this copy in a GoodReads giveaway! The third book in the Dog’s Purpose series continues to follow Bailey (though he’s obviously taken on a new form). If you are not familiar with the premise of this series, it has a dog as a narrator who keeps reincarnating as other dogs every time he dies. Throughout his many lives, he tries to figure out his purpose in life. He keeps getting sent back and somehow finding different members of the same family at different points in their lives. They each need him in different ways and at different times, so his purpose is to help them through the rough patches life throws at people. The humans, of course, don’t realize who he is because he’s in a new body. This book is no different. I will say I didn’t enjoy it near as much as I did the first two, but there were still plenty of moments that made me smile and ones that made me tear up. W. Bruce Cameron continues to do an amazing job of writing from a dog’s perspective, to the point where you really feel like a dog could’ve written the book. I always feel like I look at my own dogs differently when I finish one of his books, wondering just how true this reincarnation idea could be. I will say that it seems like he set this one’s ending up for a fourth book, which I’d be 110% down to read. If you love dogs, do yourself a favor and read this series. Just have some tissues nearby.