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Dash and Dingo: In Search of the Tasmanian Tiger

Catt Ford,

Sean Kennedy

Start date: April 1, 2011

Finish date: April 30, 2011

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Apr 01, 2012 Holly rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: m-m, historical

I wish we had half stars. I don't think this is quite a four star for me, but it's not as low as a three star either.

This is a fun historical adventure (1930s Australia). Think Indiana Jones only with extinct animals and poachers instead of artifacts and Nazis. Oh and the hot man love too.

Also. This book me a bit sad, because I so want to see a Tasmanian Tiger. And I can't.

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Dec 22, 2013 Alison rated it it was ok

Shelves: my-e-things, queer, lgbtq

Pleasant enough, but could have been lots better. I wanted to like this more because it's a neat idea and it's a unconventional story and could have been really fun. I am a huge fan of the historical queer adventure romance genre, but this book just didn't do it for me. I thought the first half was pretty good, but it lost its head of steam in the second half and I was skimming by the end. I really enjoyed the setting and whole idea of this story simply because it's different and it's an uncommo ...more

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Aug 22, 2018 Ng rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: 2018-reads, 2018-sh

This book starts out great and you are all set for a Indiana Jones type of story. Somewhere in the later pages something unravels. I was not impressed with the villain and his motivations. I really loved the Tasmanian tiger part. And this story is aptly set just a few years before the last Tasmanian tiger died in the Hobart zoo. Dingo's family was wonderful and I liked the parts with Jarrah and the Aborigine mysticism. While the year and the treatment of Aborigines in Australia during that time ...more

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