Ron K. (WhidbeyIslander) - , reviewed on 5/15/2025 + 741 more book reviews

I wish Dr. Kate luck in her following adventures, but I'm not going along with her. The writing was pleasant, and, as a slow reader, I was grateful for the many breaks in the narrative and short chapters. That's the good. The not-so-good is the book is too long and not really a mystery. It's more of a rambling story about Dr. Kate and her team servicing a small town in New York's Hudson Valley.

As a long time dog person, I found it hard to believe the doctor and her vet tech made all those house calls, especially to just trim a dog's toe nails, especially since she seemed to be the only vet clinic in her town. And I didn't need all the veterinary details or so much of her personal angst.

Another quirk (to me, an old person) was the reliance on texting. It seemed people texted one another from different rooms in the same place. A scary harbinger of how we people are interacting less in person now.

I was also disappointed the author didn't use her platform to disapprove of backyard breeders, although I thought that one of them as a victim was an okay insertion. (In my opinion the term "reliable breeder" is an oxymoron.)

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