Rescue Ink: How Ten Guys Saved Countless Dogs and Cats, Twelve Horses, Five Pigs, One Duck, and a Few Turtles
By: Rescue Ink and Denise Flaim / Narrated By: Tom Weiner
Length: 5 hrs and 51 mins
Not the best animal rescue book, but certainly different!
This is gonna be a short review because Rescue Ink is a fairly short book.
Tough guys with big hearts save the day.
Period.
What? Too little?
Oh, okay. There are a few flaws with Rescue Ink, and most of them cover the fact that there are a bunch of stories, and few of them have closure. We find a quick blurb about the duck, the turtles, but we don’t really get to hear what happens to them after the rescue. This happens quite a bit throughout the book. We meet an animal, or a plethora of them (think: cat hoarder), and then we wind up wondering about their fates. There are indeed some really happy endings; I simply would have preferred more of them.
And oh boy! The narration!!! Tom Weiner has a bit of the anchorman thing going, but I can get past that. A little drama, right? Okay, fine. But the switching of accents happens, A LOT, and I just couldn’t wrap my mind around it all. First, one of the guys comes off as Hispanic. A tad offensive by how stereotypical it is, but then? Wham! All of a sudden the very same guy sounds like a Russian spy. Then Italian! Then there’s a drawl and a twang!
Not quite six hours, some pleasant stories, but I was exhausted by the end of it.
I’m happy there are guys like the men of Rescue Ink, really I am. I wish them all the best. I only hope that for any follow-up books, there’s a better narrator.
And more closure…
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