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A review by skylacine
Cassius the Wolf: Finding Home by Jeff Harris
3.0
Bullet review:
+ Some of the characters were functional.
+ The scene between Cassius and the homeless man was very heartwarming and bittersweet.
+ Good themes and messages of animal conservation and protection.
- Most of the characters are rather one-note and not very interesting, this includes Cassius himself.
- Special shoutout to Rags, Cass' girlfriend, who is legit a non-character and is barely even in the book. She's just there to be his mate and nothing else.
- Some of the characters make very illogical and counterintuitive decisions that are never properly justified by the book. Why does the evil zoo director want to organize a public bloodbath despite obviously knowing he'll get in trouble with animal rights activists and the law? Never explained. Why is the experienced zookeeper's first instinct to keep Cassius as his pet and not to bring him to a good, repeatable zoo or sanctuary which is far more logical? Never explained
- I don't like how this book portrays everyone who is against Cassius being kept as a pet as rather one-note and bad. Some of them do make valid points; raising a wolf as a pet ISN'T a good idea especially when nobody is alerted to the fact that Cassius is a wolf. But instead or presenting this as a nuanced issue the book pretty much shows Frank as being in the right and those against him as being in the wrong, despite some raising valid concerns about keeping a wild animal as a pet and the town's safety because of it.
Full review at: https://skybookcorner.blogspot.com/2024/11/book-review-cassius-wolf-finding-home.html
+ Some of the characters were functional.
+ The scene between Cassius and the homeless man was very heartwarming and bittersweet.
+ Good themes and messages of animal conservation and protection.
- Most of the characters are rather one-note and not very interesting, this includes Cassius himself.
- Special shoutout to Rags, Cass' girlfriend, who is legit a non-character and is barely even in the book. She's just there to be his mate and nothing else.
- Some of the characters make very illogical and counterintuitive decisions that are never properly justified by the book.
- I don't like how this book portrays everyone who is against Cassius being kept as a pet as rather one-note and bad. Some of them do make valid points; raising a wolf as a pet ISN'T a good idea especially when nobody is alerted to the fact that Cassius is a wolf. But instead or presenting this as a nuanced issue the book pretty much shows Frank as being in the right and those against him as being in the wrong, despite some raising valid concerns about keeping a wild animal as a pet and the town's safety because of it.
Full review at: https://skybookcorner.blogspot.com/2024/11/book-review-cassius-wolf-finding-home.html