Good Dog (Scholastic Gold)

I ended my 2017 reading year with this book. And I could not have lucked out with a better one. Brodie is a dog - a very good dog - who has died. Rather than let go and move on to Forever, Brodie chooses to return to our world to save Aidan, his boy, from danger. What entails is an adventure so uniq......more

Heart wrenching. But what a beautiful take on man's best friend and the role your dog truly plays in your life. Told from Brodie's perspective, you follow Brodie along as he comes back from the after life to still be there for his boy, all while he has dark demon dogs after his soul, and a friend wh......more

This was one of those disappointments when the premise sound amazing, but maybe I was just not the target audience for this book. But maybe the main problem that I had with the story was not the cliche plot, but the bad writing style with the repetitive words and the "believe me" over and over again......more

I’m working my way through Dan Gemeinhart’s books and when I saw the cover of this book, my initial thought was that this would be an emotional, sweet story yet the synopsis told me something different. Even after reading the synopsis, I wasn’t prepared for what I read. This was an emotional story a......more

I was torn between a 4.5 rating and a 5, but went with the 5 because Dan’s writing is exquisite. Told through an omniscient perspective (the narrator is actually revealed at the end), we meet Brodie, a dog who has just entered the “in between”. As Brodie begins to remember his life, he decides he mu......more