Ylenia's Reviews > Fifteen Dogs

(strong) - ̗̀ 3.5 stars ̖́-

This is probably one of the weirdest books I've ever read. In a positive way.

The basic premise is that, one random night, the gods Hermes and Apollo are drinking in a pub in Montreal and they start to discuss what would happen if animals had the possibility to think like humans and to have their intelligence.
This leads to them giving human thoughts to 15 dogs that were staying overnight in a shelter.
These dogs then form a pack and start living their new and complicated life.
The plot kind of reminded me of Animal Farm, but only because we're following talking animals.

I absolutely loved the writing style; I think it fitted the book perfectly. It was crude when it needed to be crude and deep when it needed to be deep. Loved, loved looooved the writing.
The book was short and the plot was compelling. Meaning: I devoured it even if I was sick as fuck.

I felt like the message went a little bit over my head and I was slightly annoyed by the fact that, after a while, the gods continued to interfere with the dogs' lives. I wished they would just leave them alone.

Overall, this was a really interesting and unique book. I liked it a lot!