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A review by pbanditp
Dogchild by Kevin Brooks
3.0
This book started off great. The world was interesting and the there was nice character development. I was really looking forward to where this would go.
Summary- Jeet was taken as a child by a pack of Deathland dogs and raised as one of them. He was then recaptured by men and “rehumanized” when he was six. At 12 the leader whams Jeet to write the history of his people because Jeet has an objective pout of view and there will soon be a war with the much larger Dau tribe and their history needs to be written.
From that point there should have been some major editing and cuts. Probably 200 pages could have been sheered off and it would have only improved things. It went from being very compelling to slow by the time I got 20% in. It never really got better. It became predictable. Tense and bloody scenes of 25 foot long eels attacking out from the ocean mud became mundane trailer plots.
The best thing from the book was the line “Reasons don’t change reality. We are here. This is what we have. This is our world.” I found this quite profound.
There were just too many unbelievable decisions and too much dragged out.
Summary- Jeet was taken as a child by a pack of Deathland dogs and raised as one of them. He was then recaptured by men and “rehumanized” when he was six. At 12 the leader whams Jeet to write the history of his people because Jeet has an objective pout of view and there will soon be a war with the much larger Dau tribe and their history needs to be written.
From that point there should have been some major editing and cuts. Probably 200 pages could have been sheered off and it would have only improved things. It went from being very compelling to slow by the time I got 20% in. It never really got better. It became predictable. Tense and bloody scenes of 25 foot long eels attacking out from the ocean mud became mundane trailer plots.
The best thing from the book was the line “Reasons don’t change reality. We are here. This is what we have. This is our world.” I found this quite profound.
There were just too many unbelievable decisions and too much dragged out.