The Clockwork Dagger

DNF at page 13.

Does this even count as DNF? Does thirteen pages even count as ‘started'?

I don't do this. I NEVER quit a book so suddenly. Maybe it's just me being overly sensitive but, when on page nine, a young girl announces that they are going to eat the cute little puppy that the main character just saved, it's time for me to leave.

I need to have faith that the author isn't going to write something that will make me sick. I honestly don't have that faith for this book. I don't care that some countries eat dogs. (Hello, China.) (Well, actually, I do care because I think it's horrible and it disgusts me but that's not what this is about.) I don't care that when people get hungry enough they'll eat anything. (Hello, Donner Party.) (Because, seriously, it's probably true but it's a very disturbing thought.)

I do care that this is a fictional world. It doesn't have to be realistic. In fact, steampunk isn't realistic and that what makes it so fun.

I wrote this because I needed to get this off my chest (obviously) and also to warn other like-minded people (in other words: soft hearts when it comes to dogs) about what crops up.

I don't know what happens later in the book. Maybe nothing. Maybe we all sit down to a nice dinner of fried Chihuahua. What I do know is that I don't want to find out.