I mostly read this book out of obligation because it was bought for me. The Help excluded, I usually try to avoid books that are on the best seller shelf at grocery stores. I thought that the writing of this book was rather cheesy, but this book can claim to be the only thing I've read that's made me bawl, so I guess the cheese works.
I found a few things problematic with this book, but I think the main one is the author's interpretation of reincarnation. After being reincarnated the dog has all of its memories from its past lives, however when it's born the first time it has no memories. I don't understand where it came from the first time, since if reincarnation exists, surely there is no shortage of dogs to reincarnate. Also, apparently the dog continues to be reincarnated until it achieves its purpose, which is not to save people as a police dog, but to bring happiness to one specific person. That's pretty specific. What are the odds that the dog is reborn in the same area? Dogs are all over the world, how does this dog keep being born in America? That seems like a weird way for reincarnation to work. I think it would have been a really interesting story for the dog to be reborn all over the world and to explore how dogs are treated in different cultures. Or different time periods; maybe the dog could have started in the Wild West and ended in the current time. I'd read that.
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