Arin Greenwood

{My thoughts} – Nano is a sweet girl that has a love for animals. She lives in a world where a mass majority of the live “organic” animals have died out. There are very few organic digs left and they are kept on Dog Island where Nano and her family live.

In order for the vast population to experience what it is like to have a dog, they have replaced them with robot dogs. Robot dogs are really they only kind of dog Nano has ever been around, aside from when she goes with her mom to feed the organics on the island.

Nano is led to believe that they are doing what is in the best of the organics interest. When the organics breed the offspring is put to sleep with a special spray that everyone is told is to relieve their suffering. One day Nano goes with her mom to feed the organics and there are puppies. Nano decides to save one and then the entire story goes into a tailspin in an attempt to save and protect that puppy.

I really enjoyed reading this book. It made me think about how things could be without any real animals in the world. It showed that even when someone believes they are helping that they still have the potential to cause harm.

I highly recommend this book to anyone that loves animals. It will more then certainly cause you to laugh or cry or both periodically throughout its pages. It’s an incredibly enjoyable book and I hope to see more books from this author in the future.… (meer)

I hate giving up on a book, but I couldn't make it through this Young Adult novel.

Save the Enemy centers on a girl called Zoey who recently moved to the D.C. area with her parents and brother, Ben. Shortly after they arrive, her mother is killed in a mugging while walking their dog, then her father is kidnapped. Zoey, only seventeen, now has the responsibility to take care of her brother and find a way to save her dad.

This type of story isn't a typical read for me, but the synopsis sounded interesting enough. However, when I received the book and started reading the first chapter or so, I questioned the writing. Coming back to the book months later, my opinion still hasn't changed. I made it through 100 pages of this book and didn't enjoy it.

It pains me not to finish a book. The writing just isn't strong enough for me to continue on with it. The main character, Zoey, isn't endearing. She is going through an existential crisis, while dealing with the loss of both parents, all the while judging EVERYONE around her and quoting German philosophers. I don't know if the ideas, presented in the book as Zoey's father's, reflect the author's own political agenda, but the majority of the portion I read centered on those views. All in all, this book is not for me, and I do not plan to finish it.… (meer)