Book Review – Atticus | Romantic Reads and Such

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This naughty dog stole my heart and I don’t ever want it back.

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Atticus: A Woman’s Journey with the World’s Worst Behaved Dog

Sawyer Bennett writing as S. Bennett

Release Date: June 12, 2018

Blurb:

A heart-warming and deliciously funny story about the world’s worst behaved dog and how he trained his human how to love herself again.

Through the haze of vodka and self-loathing, Hazel Roundtree saw the poor creature lying in a ditch.

One brown eye. One blue. Covered in mud and crying from pain, the puppy was desperately trying to free itself from a hopeless situation.

She almost kept walking by. She had her own problems and besides… no one had ever stopped to help her.

Who we’re ultimately meant to be is a journey without end, but there’s always a defined start…

Hazel had no idea the dog would be her beginning, her second chance, the miracle she never saw coming. She named him Atticus. He grew up to be a very bad—and completely awesome—dog. He took Hazel on a life-changing journey filled with mischievous adventure and painful heartbreak. In the end, Hazel grew up to be completely awesome, too.

Goodreads Link: http://bit.ly/Atticus_GR

*****

Review:

This one isn’t technically a romance, although there is a HEA at the end. Instead readers get more of a journey piece as Hazel, with the help of her absolutely adorable troublemaking dog & a handful of good friends, picks herself up and makes herself over into a woman that she can be proud of.

I didn’t think I was going to like Hazel much at the very beginning. She’s a little too old not to have figured things out and even though she’d recently had a bit of bad luck she really hadn’t done much over the last decade or so to even attempt at adulting. But I got over it pretty quickly as she showed that at her heart she was a person that was lost and needing someone to help her want to grow up. Thankfully Atticus came at the right time, bringing the right people and the right motivation into her life.

While Atticus’s antics bring a good bit of humor to the story, it’s the small family that he helps Hazel create that really touches the heart. While blood doesn’t bond them, love and understanding cements their relationship into a motley crew that is going to be there in the good times and the bad.

Atticus is an emotion filled book about love and loss and growth. Full of ups & downs, tears & laughter, and all sorts of things that will make your heart sing. Grab your box of tissues, glass of wine, and get ready to fall in love with a furry goofball and those he calls his.

*****

Author Info:

S. Bennett is the pen name for New York Times, USA Today and Wall Street Journal bestselling author Sawyer Bennett.

Under the name S. Bennett, Sawyer writes general, young adult and women’s fiction stories that deal with the realities we face on a daily basis such as love, loss, personal growth and all things in between. She tackles difficult issues with grace, while adding her signature humor along the way. Because Sawyer is a romance writer at heart, you’re likely to find a love story within each of her books, though it’s not always a guarantee.

When she isn’t writing as S. Bennett, she’s writing contemporary romance as Sawyer Bennett, and sweet romance under the name Juliette Poe.

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