Added to that the Rex sections are a bit repetitive as he struggles to work out if he is being a good or bad dog throughout. Its an emotional journey, bmaking you care about the lives of Rex, Bear, Dragon and Bees. If I was to pick at things that might put some off it would be that although the narration is overall of a very good standard, especially in the Rex sections, when we switch to Laurence Bouvard Rex suddenly sounds very weak, not surprisingly so hardly her fault but I found it distracting. Dogs of War is accessible, engaging and fast paced fiction that really draws you in. There is a lot of action and it is brought to a very satisfying conclusion in terms of the story of Rex and his master being completed. It's another clever book though rather shorter and definitely more easily accessible than Children of Time. Just what does happen when you augment animals with tech and ask them to fight your battles? Dogs of War explores the relationship between a loyal dog and its master when that relationship is abused by it being used with bad intent. In Dogs of War he once again explores the best and worst of human behaviour with everyone's favourite target, big business, once again coming under fire. I guess it shouldn't surprise me given that Tchaikovsky had me rooting for an race of alien spiders in his previous book that in this one he got me attached to a partly robot killer dog called Rex! This is one clever author, albeit one who is jaundiced against the human race, though being often of similar persuasion I can't fault him for that.
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