from jzacsh

Got a quarter through, and just felt like a silly version of Walking Dead (but without any of the detail of the fighting), and most importantly the characters are pretty boring. The main character is pining for someone... for a quarter of the book. It's just too boring.

from AngelaCinVA

I had high hopes for this book. But it failed to live up to its promise. Mort(e) never developed enough as a character for me to really care about him. The timeline also dragged out so long and so much happened to him that I couldn't believe his devotion to a dog friend with whom he had cuddled w...

from Nialle

So much good writing, so little continuity of worldbuilding; such a welcome divergence from animals always being fable characters, so little truly fresh horror in the science/religion antipathy to which the plot devolves. Several characters became richly memorable, and the actual chemical trick p...

from themulhern

A remarkable and engrossing book with flashes of sardonic humour. Excellently read by Bronson Pinchot. Something of James Morrow with its flavor of magical realism and its exploration of religion. A bit like Neal Stephenson, with its vivid and exciting action sequences seeming to anchor a plot wh...

from marysneedle

I was not sure how I was going to like this one but I ended up thinking that it was done well. It was a quick read and following Mort(E) on his journey was interesting. How could you resist reading a book that dealt with dogs, cats and ants. A very unique combination.