A review by pennyforyourthoughts
Open Throat by Henry Hoke

adventurous challenging dark emotional informative mysterious reflective tense fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

I read this book for a class, but I really enjoyed it. It wasn’t hard to get through, the only thing that slowed me down was the ending that I had known was coming. This made me sort of sad to read it but didn’t completely ruin the experience. I enjoyed the writing style and the POV of an animal is something I do a lot in my own writing so I enjoyed that as well. This novel was well researched, and did a good job of showing things how we think an animal would see them. It’s not something I would have picked up on my own, but it was really good.
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