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    Wild Dog: Sinister and savage psychological thriller
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    Wild Dog: Sinister and savage psychological thriller

    By Serge Joncour and Jane Aitken

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    WINNER OF THE PRIX LANDERNEAU DES LECTEURS 2018 

    Described as 'eerie and sensual' by The Guardian, Wild Dog tells the story of a young couple who discover dark secrets in the remote French countryside.

    'Reads like a modern fairy tale' New York Journal of Books  

    Franck and Lise, a French couple in the film industry, rent a cottage in the quiet hills of the French Lot to get away from the stresses of modern life.

    In this remote corner of the world, there is no phone signal. A mysterious dog emerges, looking for a new master. Ghosts of a dark past run wild in these hills, where a German lion tamer took refuge in the First World War … Franck and Lise are confronted with nature at its most brutal. And they are about to discover that man and beast have more in common than they think. 

    A literary sensation in France, Wild Dog is a dark, menacing tale of isolation, human nature and the infinite savagery of the wild.  

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherGallic Books
    Release dateApr 7, 2020
    ISBN9781910477809
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    Wild Dog: Sinister and savage psychological thriller
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    Serge Joncour

    Serge Joncour is a prize-winning author and screenwriter, whose film writing credits include Sarah’s Key starring Kristen Scott Thomas. He is a member of the Légion d’honneur. His most recent novel, Human Nature, won the Prix Femina 2020 and will be published by Gallic Books in 2022.

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    • 2/5
      characters are bland, it's extremely repetitive, and the chapters in the modern era specifically are tedious to get through. the prose itself is very dry, which just doesn’t work in this sort of thriller/horror novel. it definitely had some good ideas and set pieces, but just never came together as a novel so i quit at page 232.
    • 3/5
      This started out promising, but quickly devolved. First, it seemed like the main character switched (or at least wasn't established well). I thought the protagonist was the wife, but it ended up being the husband. The husband was unlikeable in so many ways and the story's progression made little sense. How quickly the protagonist devolved just didn't make sense. You'd think it took place over the course of months, but I'm pretty sure it was literally days (for the contemporary arc of the story). The ending was so rushed too - it just seems it wasn't planned out for both the past and present storyline.
    • 2/5
      oh I did not like this book. I gave it two stars because the writing was very readable. However, I hated one of the main characters. He did illogical things only to think seconds later, oh I shouldn't have done that. Then he goes on to do even crazier things. It just seemed implausible and I didn't care about any of the characters, even the dog. I usually love dog characters.
    • 3/5
      I received this for free as an ARC to review. I was excited to start this and I found some it less than capturing, I plan a reread soon.
      the storyline is enough to get most interested, this type of book is right up my alley but sometimes not always executed perfectly
    • 3/5
      Disclaimer: I won an ARC via a giveaway on Librarything. I am also reading the book in translation.

      Franck and his wife Lise go the middle of nowhere to spend time away, and as always in these situations, thing happen. Some of the things are tied to what happened in the same area over 100 years, during the first World War. That is the start of the novel which unfolds in 2017 and 1915.
      The book has strong promise, yet doesn’t quite live up to it. The biography of Joncour indicts that he is a screenwriter, and this book does almost beg to made into a film or mini-series. To be honest, for a thriller, the book isn’t that thrilling. While I never want to not finish the book, it was a book you could quite easily put down and walk away from for quite a bit. (In half the amount of time it took me to read this 300+ page book, I made 200+ pages into different book).
      Part of this is the structure. While the dual narratives do provide or provoke curiosity, the two timelines are not equally interesting. The 1915 narrative was the strong of the two. Part of this has to do with the better sense of setting and place. Another reason is that the characters and the situation were more compelling. The 1915 narrative concerns the town during the war as well as the strange German who takes shelter in the area. He has five big cats. And how exactly does he feed them?
      The 2017 narrative about Lise and Franck pales a bit in comparison. Part of this is because the sense of place is not as acute. This could be in part because such a strong sense is done in the 1915 sections. However, given the 100 years difference in time period, the sense of place would have changed somewhat, gotten spookier or something. Yet this does not get much description. Additionally, the modern narrative at first sounds like it is going to be Lise’s, but than it becomes almost solely Franck’s. Lise becomes a presence, not even a Muse, though it almost seems like she was/is intended to be one.
      This isn’t to say that Josephine, the woman from the 1915 narrative is much better. If Joncour had mention her attractiveness one more time, especially in how she thought about it, I was going to smack the nearest person up side the head. Despite this, Josephine is still more of a character than Lise, who just seems to be there.
      Franck who controls and dominates the modern narrative, isn’t all that developed either. The change in him doesn’t quite work, though it is central to the plot. And the dog. I get the dog and the symbolism. But the dog doesn’t quite work either, even if you see it has a symbol of the half wild state that we should be.
      That said, it isn’t a bad book. There are good passages. You do have some curiosity about what happens. The 1915 sections are very good. The idea has promise. It just doesn’t quite gel.