Review: The Dog Share

The Dog Share by Fiona Gibson
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

Suzy Medley's boyfriend Paul is a bit of an enthusiast, he picks up hobbies and jobs then drops them six months later, but he's charming and funny and handsome and great with Suzy's kids so she forgives him. Until he sinks all his inheritance from his father into a whisky distillery on the remote Scottish island of Sgadansay. Within months he's run a thriving business into the ground and walked away with his usual disinterest leaving the livelihoods of his employees hanging in the balance.

When Suzy visits the distillery to talk to the workers she is greeted with hostility, alone and feeling very inadequate she meets a stray dog just when she has reached rock bottom. Somehow just looking after the stray dog fires up Suzy's enthusiasm and the next thing you know she is determined to save the distillery.

I am a fan of Jenny Colgan's novels about Scotland and so I was hoping for something along the same lines, which this was, to a point. However, this felt like there was a really great book happening somewhere just out of sight. Everything was very superficial, we didn't see much of the distillery, we didn't see much of the romance, there were two side plots involving Suzy's sister and her love-interest's ex respectively which didn't really go anywhere and were swiftly resolved. Overall, this felt like the synopsis of a book rather than the actual novel.

I liked it but I didn't love it and I didn't really engage with the characters.

I received a free copy of this book from the publisher via NetGalley in return for an honest review.

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