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I'm a dog lover. Big time. Every book with good, fun dog character in it usually makes a story so much better. This time, although Joe the German Shepherd "puppy" was adorable and one of the best behaving dogs I've read about, he could not save the story for me.

At first, it looked promising and funny. To get over the heartbreak of her best friend marrying the man of her dreams, Savannah gets really drunk and accidentally buys a puppy online from Slovakia. This should have been the first warning. How drunk and stupid you have to be to buy a dog online?
It was hilarious first when instead a little puppy a much, much bigger dog arrived and reacted only to commands in Slovak but soon, sadly, he was left to background and the heroine started really bug me a lot.

At the beginning Savannah felt refreshing change to all the perfect romance heroines. She drank, swore, was lazy and sloppy but after all what she went through, I thought she'll pull it together eventually. No such luck. She continued to getting drunk, being messy and lazy. A lot. I'm not a prude, far from it, but seriously, this was a lot of drinking. As I'm personally against solving problems with sinking them into alcohol, it really started to irritate me. Then there was her love interest, Alex the Vet. Yeah, well, I got the impression that he was in this story because it was supposed to be a romance, so there should be a man for that. His character was very underdeveloped and boring. I could not actually picture them together without Joe being in the mix and that should say something about their chemistry.

Anyway, there are lot better romance stories for animal lovers out there. I could have read a book by Kristan Higgins instead of this mediocre romance. Still, I loved Joe and as always , he earned an extra star for this book!