There's a book called Thor by Wayne Smith that does a great job of this. It's a werewolf horror story, but told from the point of view of the family dog. The author didn't give the dog a voice, but framed things from the dogs POV, so everything was described how a dog would interpret them based on what we know of animal behaviour. The family is the pack, it's his job to protect the pack while trying to be a 'good boy' and not a 'bad dog'. It's been a while since I've read it, so I don't have a lot of specific examples, but it's worth taking a look at.
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Edit: The Amazon page has a preview if you want to read a bit to get a sense of what I mean:
I read a hell of a lot. As in, I have a personal library of over a thousand books. Possibly more, I am not about to count them, fuck that. I have so many shelves, each holds this many books, etc. I can recommend books like it's my job, for some genres.
Here is one that had only one print run, but was still somehow made into a totally shitty 80's movie, which should not reflect on the book - the book was mindblowing. The only person I lent my copy to "lost it", meaning, he loved it enough to start his own library. I futilely raged at him, and went and got another. It is good. It is so damn good. Told from the perspective of a German shepherd dog protecting his family from a sudden threat they can't see, but he can smell. That sounds like nothing much, but oh wow; this book, it's amazing.
Also, it's a wild ride, but at the end, you end up happy crying. I don't ever cry about what happens in books, but I legit was doing the same kind of crying you do at Disney movies.
Not many books have that kind of power, so I'm passing on what I know.
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Have you read Thor by Wayne Smith-? A werewolf novel told from the point of view of a German shepherd dog. Yes, seriously, and I thought it was a lot of fun. Avoid Bad Moon, the movie based on the novel.
There's a book called Thor by Wayne Smith that does a great job of this. It's a werewolf horror story, but told from the point of view of the family dog. The author didn't give the dog a voice, but framed things from the dogs POV, so everything was described how a dog would interpret them based on what we know of animal behaviour. The family is the pack, it's his job to protect the pack while trying to be a 'good boy' and not a 'bad dog'. It's been a while since I've read it, so I don't have a lot of specific examples, but it's worth taking a look at.
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Edit: The Amazon page has a preview if you want to read a bit to get a sense of what I mean:
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I read a hell of a lot. As in, I have a personal library of over a thousand books. Possibly more, I am not about to count them, fuck that. I have so many shelves, each holds this many books, etc. I can recommend books like it's my job, for some genres.
Here is one that had only one print run, but was still somehow made into a totally shitty 80's movie, which should not reflect on the book - the book was mindblowing. The only person I lent my copy to "lost it", meaning, he loved it enough to start his own library. I futilely raged at him, and went and got another. It is good. It is so damn good. Told from the perspective of a German shepherd dog protecting his family from a sudden threat they can't see, but he can smell. That sounds like nothing much, but oh wow; this book, it's amazing.
Also, it's a wild ride, but at the end, you end up happy crying. I don't ever cry about what happens in books, but I legit was doing the same kind of crying you do at Disney movies.
Not many books have that kind of power, so I'm passing on what I know.
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amazon.nl
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Have you read Thor by Wayne Smith-? A werewolf novel told from the point of view of a German shepherd dog. Yes, seriously, and I thought it was a lot of fun. Avoid Bad Moon, the movie based on the novel.