Paws for Consideration
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5.0 • 1 Rating
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- $3.99
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- $3.99
Publisher Description
Like Tales of the City but with more dogs, Amy Butcher's murder mystery Paws for Consideration takes you on an intimate tour of gay San Francisco. Follow the exploits of citizen-detective Daisy: frumpy, wheelchair-bound, self-appointed mayor of her San Francisco neighborhood—Daisy likes dogs a little bit more than people. But when she discovers Skittles, a terrified Boston Terrier, still leashed to his very dead owner's arm, she has no choice but to roll into action. Careening through the Castro and the Mission, past upscale restaurants and low-down dungeons, Daisy and Skittles brave gentrification, gay-bashing, and homelessness to paw and sniff their way deep into that most dangerous of all relationships: neighbor.
Richly illustrated by the author and including a built-in flipbook for added entertainment, this debut novel from San Francisco-based erotic writer Amy Butcher (Best Lesbian Erotica 2012) is a sensory immersion. It offers the reader a sneak peek under the drag skirts of San Francisco, letting them see the familiar city in surprising new ways. Be you a lover of dogs, gays, BDSM, or simply San Francisco (as if the city isn't all of these–and more–all rolled into one!) you'll find something to satisfy your guilty pleasure reading needs!
Additional materials: chapter illustrations, reading group questions, and interview with author.
Customer Reviews
This story gripped me
Beautifully written, melodic in many ways, lyrical in so many others. Great rhythm. I am not a musician, but I love music, and the book was music to my brain.
True, several of the themes discussed, (BDSM for instance) though not completely or theoretically foreign to me, did make me a bit uncomfortable. This could be attributed to my age and/or level of education. Also to the fact that I am pain averse, and highly insular.
Overall, the mystery part was well executed; not at all transparent or easily guessed, as so many other books. I particularly loved the connections between upscale professionals, LGBTQIAs, homeless erudites, elderly and ADAs. Daisy was a treasure! I loved her ability to defend herself against the punks by driving her chair against their shins. Above all, I really enjoyed the dialogue between the canine characters. It made complete sense to me, an animal lover.
I read this book in my iPad as an Apple Book. I found many instances of missing words, extra words, some misspellings, all of which I attribute to poor typesetting by whoever copied it into the app.
All that said, a great little book.