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Title: Waiting for Doggo

Author: Mark B. Mills

Narrator: Peter Kenny

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5 hrs and 9 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-20-14

Publisher: Headline Digital

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

One man. One dog. One big love. The perfect novel for anyone who loves Marley and Me, It's a Wonderful Life, or One Day. No-one ever called Dan a pushover. But then no-one ever called him fast-track either. He likes driving slowly, playing Sudoku on his iPhone, swapping one scruffy jumper for another. He's been with Clara for four years and he's been perfectly happy; but now she's left him, leaving nothing but a long letter filled with incriminations and a small, white, almost hairless dog, named Doggo. So now Dan is single, a man without any kind of partner whether working or in love. He's just one reluctant dog owner. Find a new home for him, that's the plan. Come on...everyone knows the old adage about the best laid plans and besides, Doggo is one special kind of a four legged friend...and an inspiration.

Members Reviews:

Just meh

I loved the main characters, especially Doggo, and the writing is well done but the story fell flat. Just a young man experiencing difficult romantic, familial and office relationships, aided by a dog thrust into his care. It might have been inspired by the saying, "All you need is love... and a dog." I found myself wanting more substance.

A Sequel? Comic strip book?

This was a cute story and a quick read. Some fresh air and a laugh after a string of bleak historical fiction and dark murder mysteries. I'd read a sequel :)

Very Enjoyable.

Iâm halfway through this book, and Iâm hooked. Itâs the most entertaining thing Iâve read in months. Have already recommended it to my friends.

Easy to lose yourself in

I loved how absorbing this book was, I'm not a huge reader any more and I couldn't put it down. My only issue was the dialogue was slightly hard to follow at some points.

Heartwarming

This book has everything we have come to expect of a book âabout modern lifeâ: office politics, romance, the urban/rural divide, the friends, the career going nowhere, the messed up love-life and unemployment. But it also has a dog. And that makes what would have otherwise been just another, rather predictable commentary on modern life a wonderful, heartwarming story about redemption.

Doggo and Dan have both been abandoned (several times it turns out) and both have been deeply scarred by that. And they donât care for each other that much. Doggo is, when the book commences, as likely to bite Dan as anything and the only reason Dan doesnât return Doggo to the shelter is that they are going to neuter him. (Dan has issues with that.) So itâs not the best start to a relationship.

For this is a story about a relationship. We learn quickly that Doggo is a fine judge of character; that Dan quickly becomes quite attached to himâeven makes bringing him to work a condition of employment when he has no other jobs and quite rightly (I think) calls him his âmental health dog.â Anyone who has ever had a dog will know exactly how accurate that description is.

And thanks to Doggo who helps Dan by simply being a dog, Dan is able to become a better version of himself, find redemption and yes happiness.

As we watch him make that transformation, Mark Mills pokes gentle fun at our societyâs foibles (health and safety obsession for example) but somehow manages to not put anyone down. (I think itâs thanks to Doggo.)

I highly recommend this bookâwhether you have doggos in your life or not.