Wanted to read heartwarming stories about dogs... got a woman distraught about moving to a neighborhood with “criminals” and “thugs” and how the upper west side was “saving” the dirty, low income area. Gross. Needless to say I didn’t finish it.

This book gripped me in the first half, intrigued me in the second half, and felt like reading a newspaper description of a court trial in the third half. It starts strong and then, just winds away into a series of notes, as if to provide all the tying of ends to the reader without the effort required to narratively end a story. I read it straight through at the end, more because I was curious about how it ended than being sucked in by the writing.

zero stars