True to the ways of Richard Adams novels, life is given to the world of the dog with vivid reality, their interactions with each other, beliefs, and ways of life which we humans might misconstrue as something else. If you are looking for an honest account of life from a dog’s view of the world this is your book. A bit hard to come by too, I had to special order it in. I liked the brutal reality however, and thought it added to the books.Īn interesting one, that's for sure.
Most of my immunity to animal violence in books was built from reading Watership Down and the Plague Dogs as a child, but not all will appreciate it here. There is a lot of violence depicted, so I'd rate it somewhere in the mature teen category. This one isn't for kids, despite the fact it's about dogs. If only it were that simple! It took the plot in places I didn't really want it to go, and made the story seem a little unbelievable for that fact alone. I did wonder and probably knocked it down a star for the adding of the character Jodi, a woman who can listen to and talk back to dogs. There's been numerous dog books in that mix too, although this one definitely makes it mark in terms of showing cruelty and death, and not just for the dogs. I've read many of these type of books in recent years that is, realistic animal fiction depicting an animal and their view of our world.
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