DOG

 Novel by Yishay Ishi Ron

Special thanks to Netgalley for providing the ARC

Murder, trauma, redemption. This book has it all.

DOG is a beautiful, moving novel about PTSD, love and how our memory and our composition can betray us.

DOG follows a man, a soldier, who has become a junkie. His life is in tatters and he lives from one hit to the next, he lives in the past and a numb psychosis. One day, he saves a dog and this moment changes his life as it brings him people and circumstances that just might rescue his life.

I loved this book. It reminds me greatly of another book on PTSD I once read called The yellow Birds by Kevin Powers. This book has a haunting brilliance and the writer has a brilliant and clear writing style. He creates wonderful imagery and his scenes aren't too long or too short when being described.

This book shows how the world moves on even if some of us are still stuck in the past.

The writing of some chapters in Dogs point of view was a good idea to not only break the heaviness of the book but to also give the reader a sense of pain from a different perspective.

The ending made the book for me. It was spectacular!! I will definitely be purchasing a hard copy as soon as the book is out!

As a critique I will say that the last few chapters were too long and made me feel hasty but that's just for me personally. I completely understand the authors choice to write the book the way it was written and even though I feel some pieces were clunky and a bit too long and descriptive this wont be subtracted from my rating.

Definitely found a new favorite book! I cant wait to see what the author does next.

NB check the TW for the book before reading as the subject matter may upset some people.

5/5 stars for the plot

4.5/5 stars for character development

4/5 for writing

5/5 for the book as a whole