Beginning with using a woman's death entirely for the purpose of inspiring a male protagonist (explicitly referenced more than once) threw the whole thing out of kilter for me. Why, for once, couldn't they have Ellie fulfill her own dreams?
(I also found some of the dog pack interactions problematic for reasons that I no longer clearly remember, three years later.)
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Date: 2012-07-20 02:08 (UTC)(I also found some of the dog pack interactions problematic for reasons that I no longer clearly remember, three years later.)
---L.