“It's always the books you don't have that call to you, you know that. Not the ones on your shelf. They can wait.”

A very brief review for what felt like a very long book.

This was... not for me, but I think the author was pretty successful in writing the kind of story that he set out to write. I applaud him for that. As a Doctor Who fan, I feel pretty confident in saying this felt like a very long, confusing, drawn-out episode of Doctor Who. In fact, it kind of felt like multiple Doctor Who episodes put in a blender and served to me in cheese cloth.

I was expected to eat the cheese cloth.

If that doesn't make sense, I'm afraid I can't explain it more.

This is well-written, but I couldn't help but feel incredibly disconnected/bored/apathetic for the majority of my reading time. And then I accidentally (or intentionally, depending on the author's original intent)

felt like I was reading about something a step away from bestiality and that undermined the point of them not being quite as different as they thought. I had been picturing dogs that walked upright and a human girl, which made me a bit uncomfy, personally.

Overall, this was not bad, but I am also relieved to be done with it and ready to read something else. I would recommend it to fans of Strange the Dreamer and Doctor Who.