Reviews for From Ace To Zummo

The average rating for From Ace To Zummo based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2015-11-28 00:00:00 Vera Tovino Ouch. Well, I've spent $30 on worse things, even if I can't think of any right this moment. Firstly, let me explain why I bought this book. I was in a town we visit maybe twice a year, and I always go to the book store there. I was taken aback by the price, and put this one back on the shelf twice. In the end, I knew I would regret not buying this book because I hadn't seen it before, plus the dog on the front was cute. And the quote on the front seemed to drag me in 'How on earth did this happen? How did it come about that I was spending my days adjudicating between two dogs who were acting out the story of my life?' the blurb in the front covers claims the author finds the way to her heart (although I did not read the blurb until I was finished, I don't like spoiling books for myself) So she first gets Stanley, then Sophie and claims they are going to be the light in her life. She's lost her husband after a long illness, and I can understand the depression, the inability to move on. I just will never understand the giving up of the dogs, or rather the need to write about the fact that you couldn't look after two animals you had agreed to take in and love. Maybe this time I should have spoiled myself, because I did not want to read that. My facebook feed is full of abandoned animals, pets that didn't fit into someone's life. There were backup owners in this case, but still, urgh. The author is a writer by trade, but the cramped paragraphs and over the top descriptions didn't do much for me. There was far too much human and not enough dog for me in a book that has been compared to Marley and Me. Not my cup of tea at all.

Review # 2 was written on 2015-10-25 00:00:00 Michael Legend This wasn't at all what I expected. Maybe I'm just not a memoir kind of person but I was after a happy story about the life of the author with her two dogs. Instead I got a story about a person who couldn't cope with her two pets and gave them away on a whim so she could go travelling around the world instead. All I kept thinking through the whole book was 'Stop complaining about giving the dogs away. You shouldn't have done it in the first place!' Plus another thought constanly kept coming to mind 'Have you never heard of obedience training or making some other type of effort to fix the behaviour of a dog rather than just giving them away?' All in all I don't really have much that's positive to say about this book unfortunately. It just frustrated me to no end and I was always left feeling that there just should have been a bit more to it. If you're after a story of a person dropping everything in life to try and find herself, then this is a story you might like. As much as I love animals I probably shouldn't allow myself to read books like this where pet ownership is explained from other points of view. My pets are like fur children to me who I have committed to owning, therefore have committed to the good and bad times that come with that. I just get too angry when I see instances where other's don't feel anywhere near the same.