I grew up with lots of animals, all of them from shelters or the street.  Because of this I always love heart-warming stories of dogs who were rescued from difficult circumstances.

Ruth Tshudin was looking for a dog and came about finding Jessie through Petfinder.com

Jessie the dog tells the story in her own words. As a character she has no personality and we don’t tend to get emotionally attached to her.  The reading is easy but nothing mind-blowing.

Jessie was abused by a family child and taken to a shelter where she then found an adoptive parent in Ruth Tshudin.  Jessie seemed to fit into her new home with ease. Apart from a few minor health problems, she seems to be a dream dog. It is stated she teaches the new owners many of lifes different quirks.  Seems to me as overreaching by the humans.

The only purpose of this book is for a light laugh for people that are into dogs and dog-themed books.  While it is nice that Jessie got adopted and the family was completed, it’s the same as every other book about dog adoptions.  Scratch that, there are many others that are much better.

One other point that threw me from this book is that there are religious undertones to the book.  I knew this going into the book, as I was warned beforehand.  But for any other buyer, you will be hit in the face with this, and it isn’t brought up anywhere in the description.

A MAJOR disappointment and disgust for me is the closeness of this title to another book.  I’m upset with the publisher for not wanting to change it, and the “author” for not having enough brain cells to make the book more distinguishable.  It seems so lazy and forced, that it dimishes the value of anything written between the covers.