Mutt

Super Good

Mutt Review
Book Review #17: Mutt by Evan Fuller

Rating: 9.7/10

Sample Passage:Emery glared at the taller man, wishing his gaze alone was enough to cut the doctor down. “Where is this package?” “Its contents are very sensitive,” Hanssen replied, “so you will arrange a meeting with Three Dogs and then come back for the package when you are prepared to make the delivery.” The two locked eyes again; for a small eternity, neither of them spoke. “I’ll make arrangements,” Emery said at last. “Have a good evening, doctor.” He was out the door of the office before the words had left his mouth. The pretty secretary was still smiling when Emery passed her desk, but her expression grew solemn when her eyes met his drawn face. Emery waved, more curtly than he meant to, and retreated to the stairwell. He had no idea where to begin.

Genre: Young Adult….Fantasy….Dystopian? It’s hard to classify.

Emery is a young man doing a dangerous task. He takes in ill “mutts,” or outcasts from the city of Rittenhouse. If anyone catches him doing this deed, he will be arrested. The stakes are raised when Timothy, a young boy with a fatal and serious illness, requires medicine that can only be given to Emery if he completes a dangerous errand. This errand takes him outside of Rittenhouse, where outcasts and mutts are driven to taking extreme measures to make sure they survive. Emery faces matters of life and death; will the reward be worth the price he has to pay?

I’m not quite sure how I am typing this review right now. My eyes are SOO sore from looking at a computer screen for 2 hours, because I’m reading this book on my computer. It was so worth it though. I couldn’t stop reading this book!

Once I started to read, my first thought was not a good one. I knew this type of book, or at least I thought I did, and these types are all well and good, but they weren’t MY type. I’m not a fan of books that exist in their own world, because that’s sort of hard for me to follow. One of the negatives about this book for me is that you do have to pay attention to the history of the place and the people, which got way too complicated for me. I was just like “um….will this be important later on? Do I have to memorize this?” If it weren’t for that one thing, this book would have gotten a 10/10.

Now on to the positives, which is like, everything else. This plot was so original! I haven’t read or seen anything like it before. That’s so refreshing to find something so original in young adult fiction writing. I feel like most of the stuff I read is just not giving me anything to work with! It doesn’t keep my interest. Well THIS did. I was so enticed in the plot and the mission Emery faces.

Can I just say that I love Emery as a character? He’s such a good person, even though he has a dark past. Some characters in book totally mess themselves up with a dark past, but Emery decides to do something really great for the people less fortunate outside Rittenhouse. He is not whiny or complaining about anything.

Despite the fact that I have a hard time following books “in their own world,” I could follow this one pretty easily. There were some things that I didn’t understand about what people looked like or what the setting looked like, but it’s explained really well. Beautiful writing in this book, I mean, seriously.

Even if this “isn’t your type” of book, you have to try it. I loved it so much! You will love the setting, plot, characters, and writing. And those are, for me, the four great-book keys. And this book has it all. So go read it!

A special thanks to Evan Fuller for letting me read this awesome book for free. :)