A review by scorpstar77
Pug Hill by Alison Pace

3.0

I wish we could give half-stars here - I'd really like to give this 3.5 stars. But I'm rounding up, giving the benefit of the doubt. This is a pretty standard chick lit novel, with a cute angle about the heroine's love of dogs (pugs in particular). She's infatuated with a co-worker who's unavailable, she and her boyfriend break up, she's terrified of public speaking but just promised to give a speech at her parents' 40th wedding anniversary party, her sister gets all of the attention, etc. Nothing unusual. I enjoyed reading it...but I felt it lacked something. There was no big moment of drama, humiliation, angst. There's a lot of tiny annoyances and sigh-inducing moments for the heroine, but nothing big. The character does experience growth...but all in all, a lot of the book is like experiencing events happening to a friend in real life. Which is fine...for a friend in real life. For a book, you generally want a little more bang, and that was lacking here.