Lori M. (lormac) reviewed on 4/3/2011 + 120 more book reviews

Helpful Score: 3

Great writing, but lousy ending. There were so many wonderful moments in this books - the ghost in the rain, the Almondine chapters, the old woman in the store - that I will never forget because they were drawn so skillfully, however, as a whole, the narrative failed. One example: Throughout the book, the author provided pages of information about dog breeding, and the importance of certain features in the Sawtelle dogs, which created the expectation that this information would become key to the narrative - in other words, I expected that the Sawtelle's dogs' breeding would enable them to make an independent choice at a crucial plot moment, but it never happened. I expected Fourte to play a key role in the ending, but it never happened. I expected to discover Claude's motivation, but it never happened. For this reason, the author failed overall, although I was not sad that I read this book.

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