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Dog Days
by Ericka Waller
***Thank you NetGalley and St. Martin's Press for an ARC in exchange for an honest review***
While I enjoyed this book, it felt as if the characters weren't fully developed and the dogs, promised as one of the main points of the story, become side characters and more props than anything else.
I really enjoyed Waller's exploration of grief and the use of three different experiences to define and explain it. The experiences of grief of someone and the grief of your own experiences becomes very telling and a very interesting manner of expression. However, each character's storyline turned out to be very unique, making the whole storyline seem choppy and thrown together, although the cameos within each story helped bring them together. Each dog also felt thrown into the story at one point or another instead of being uplifting or motivating the owner's actions.
While I enjoyed this book, it felt as if the characters weren't fully developed and the dogs, promised as one of the main points of the story, become side characters and more props than anything else.
I really enjoyed Waller's exploration of grief and the use of three different experiences to define and explain it. The experiences of grief of someone and the grief of your own experiences becomes very telling and a very interesting manner of expression. However, each character's storyline turned out to be very unique, making the whole storyline seem choppy and thrown together, although the cameos within each story helped bring them together. Each dog also felt thrown into the story at one point or another instead of being uplifting or motivating the owner's actions.