A Christmas Home
Greg Kincaid
November 13th,
2012
A Christmas home is a touching story about a boy, Todd, with
a learning disability who works in a animal shelter. In the month of December
the shelter manager, Todd’s best friend, Hayley gets some bad news. Due to
budget cuts they can no longer afford to fund the shelter.
Throughout A Christmas Home Todd, Hayley must work with
shelter volunteers Laura and Doc Pelot to come up with a place for each new dog
to live before the first of the year.
Hayley seems resigned to sending them to different shelters,
unfortunately those shelters don’t embrace the same no-kill policy they live by.
However Todd seems determined to find each furry companion a new home before
the start of the year.
Over-all I found this novel extremely touching. I am
personally a dog-lover and I believe each dog, or cat for that matter deserves
a loving home. In A Christmas Home is
truly an amazing story that delves into what a young man is willing to do to ensure the safety and happiness of
pets.
The main characters drew my attention to them because of
their strength in character, and their amazing ability to take everything in
stride, but still fighting back.
I expected the story to revolve more around the two dogs
Gracie and Christmas, although they didn’t have as big of a role as I’d thought
they would they captured my attention.
The only flaw I found in A Christmas home involved the
sentence structure. Although there was nothing grammatically wrong with A
Christmas Home , some of the sentences sounded a little choppy. I also felt
that on a couple of occasions when he
was telling about their everyday, mundane life he broke the show, don’t tell
rule. It felt like someone was talking to me explaining what was happening.
Besides that it was excellently written, and it made sense.
This is an absolute must-read for animal lovers. If you care
about animals, and want to read a story that highlights the plight all dogs
face. I truly love how accurate the
story was when it came to telling how
the animals suffers when a lack of funding shuts down a shelter.
A free copy of this book was provided by WaterBrook Multnomah publishing for review purposes.
A free copy of this book was provided by WaterBrook Multnomah publishing for review purposes.
This book sounds interesting. Thanks for your thoughts and the review. Hope you have a great week! :O)
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