Jax C. (Destructa) reviewed on 3/14/2008 + 78 more book reviews

Helpful Score: 6

I don't get the "religious" comment from another reviewer...the sheep's consensus of what souls are and who God is are quite hilarious, like their interpretations of human romance and other baffling behaviors. I also didn't think it was too cutesy. The tale does stumble a bit in the beginning, probably due to the characters starting out unfocused and easily distracted (they are grieving sheep!), but Swann's writing is good enough to get the reader through some rough patches. There are deep internal struggles in there, too, like Richard Adams wrote so vividly in Watership Down and The Plague Dogs. On the whole, the tone is more lighthearted, like a wry British cozy mystery.

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