Review: K-9

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K-9
K-9 by Rohan Gavin
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

*Thank you to Bloomsbury USA Children’s Publishing and NetGalley for providing me with a digital ARC copy of this book for review!*

This would have been a 3/3.5 star review were it not for those last two-ish chapters. I think I enjoyed this book even more than the first one — and I had so much fun with “Knightley and Son”, which I continually pitched as basically the BBC ‘Sherlock’ but with a father-and-son dynamic. Really great stuff.

But this book had Wilbur. Wilbur and his continual helpfulness in the plot was a wonderful addition to the Darkus and Knightley team, to the point that I might have gotten far too attached to this canine companion. As for the humans, I enjoyed that there was some genuine (and understandable) father-and-son friction between those two.

And the mystery — talk about throwing me for a loop at the end! I definitely did not anticipate what happened and the last few chapters of this left me gaping…and misting up just a wee bit. Actually, no, I’m not misting up: I’m flailing internally within a glass case of emotion. I won’t say why, but I will just say that I am SO NOT HAPPY WITH YOU RIGHT NOW, MR. GAVIN. YOU’RE KILLING ME WITH THE FEELS.

Anyways, so much fun and I can’t wait for book 3!

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Madeleine Cassier firmly believes that sleep is overrated and the idea of having a “social life” is optional. Bred and raised on a constant stream of media, it’s no wonder she decided to go major in Digital Video & Cinema from James Madison University’s prestigious School of Media Arts & Design, while also minoring in English and selling her devotion to the Marching Royal Dukes as flutist and piccoloist. She even vanished to London for her final semester, and spent that time consuming copious amounts of coffee with an independent film production company. She currently works as a Creative Producer in Richmond, VA, while also freelancing her skills to local clients and directors. In her nonexistent free time, the Mad is known to write scripts, edit short films (and lots of fanvids), read and review books both for fun and sometimes for publishers, produce podcasts, and fling heavy things around at the gym.