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This was fun and clever and I didn’t enjoy it nearly as much as I thought I would. At first I was really amused, but after a while my interest waned. Sure it makes sense that sheep would be slow investigators, but the story moved too slowly, my attention wandered, I was not engaged.
The entire conversation about marijuana, aka "grass," felt awkward and dated, because no one here calls it "grass" anymore; I know the term "grass" was needed for the sheep to misunderstand, and perhaps this was a tr ...more
The entire conversation about marijuana, aka "grass," felt awkward and dated, because no one here calls it "grass" anymore; I know the term "grass" was needed for the sheep to misunderstand, and perhaps this was a tr ...more
Way to cute for my frame of mind at the moment. I thought it would be about a detective who owned sheep. Instead, the sheep are the detectives. I wasn't up to a sheep named Miss Maple who was solving the mystery of the dead sheepherder. Will probably revisit one day when I am more receptive.
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Definitely a mystery with a difference, give the perspective - the sheep trying to discover who murdered their shepherd. Manages to maintain it's inner sheep-ness pretty much all the time. Dragged slightly in the middle, but picked up again towards the end.
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