THIS IS NOT FROM OUR GENRE, and it is not getting my recommendation despite having been a well-written book. It’s a dog story. Rose is a border collie, a great and heroic animal. The story is a mix of all of my memories of the stories about Rin Tin Tin and Lassie from the 50s and 60s. I’m really surprised that it was written by a man, because it strikes me as being a woman’s book, and one for city women, not for anyone who spent a lot of time with animals on a ranch or a farm, as I have. Rose and the some of the other farm animals are anthropomorphized to an extreme. The book was suggested by my wife, who usually has good instincts about what I’m likely to enjoy, but she missed on this one. I finished it because it was a quick and easy read, one that took me less than four hours to finish, in part because the writing flowed so nicely. It’s just the content that kept me out of the barn and off my feed.
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