Reviews

The Last Dog On Earth by Daniel Ehrenhaft

abaugher's review against another edition

3.0

begin: i keep running into books where the male character is SO MAD at the world! is this what angry young men really feel? why isnt this being addressed by more people? that level of anger only leads to angry adults, and they pass it on to others, including the next generation. anyway, it's got a dog and a loner boy, so you know the dog's going to be dead at the end of the book. what was i thinking?!

end: it ended as i expected and yet not. touching, poignant but could have gone deeper. still, overall a good dead dog book.

griess's review against another edition

5.0

So heartwarming and sad this is a great book of love and survival.

hectaizani's review

3.0

A poor man’s [b:Where the Red Fern Grows|10365|Where the Red Fern Grows|Wilson Rawls|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1518702249s/10365.jpg|115]. Young Logan has a father that abandoned him, a stepfather who thinks he can’t do anything right, and a mother that never seems to be on his side. Logan’s stepdad wants him to be more like the neighbor’s kid so they decide to get him a dog, but not just any dog it has to be a purebred chocolate lab named Jack. Somehow Logan convinces his mom to take him to a shelter where he picks out the ugliest, meanest, mutt on the premises. Now the two of them are on the run from Logan’s family, from the disease that’s killing all the dogs and from the roving gangs of vigilantes.

I wasn’t really impressed. The concept was interesting but I think the implementation could have been better.

kphipps's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

noracattoilet's review against another edition

emotional sad

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

5.0

libraryjewels's review against another edition

4.0

This book pulls you in from the start and is hard to put down. As a dog owner, it is a book that can really make you think about life with and without your dog.

jbanta's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

Loved this book

wildemountaintime's review against another edition

dark sad tense fast-paced

4.0

I think this was the first kind of "horror" book I read, or at least a book that made me feel that way. 13 year old me was haunted by it and cried at the end.

lesbianwolves's review against another edition

adventurous emotional tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

This was my FAVORITE book when I was seven, and it holds up decently well as an adult, so it gets five stars.

dreamydaenys's review against another edition

5.0

I reread this book every year, I still cry at the end. I recommend this book to all dog lovers.