Title: Cruelty to animals a big turnoff for me.
Review: I have read a few of Robards books and enjoyed them as page turners. There was one where a pig was a comic element and helped the main character survive an attack by the bad guy. Very clever use of the animal there. Whispers however starts out with a bad guy slashing a knife through a small helpless dog, leaving him bloody, etc. This I just don't need in my mind's eye. I would have thought Ms. Robards a better writer than to need to use animals in this way. Sadly I had already purchased it on my Kindle. Maybe I'll try another one of hers from the library, maybe not.
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