So, when I learned that his newest novel, The Rescue, involved a dog as a major character, I had such strong expectations that it would be “right up my alley” that I put it at the very top of my mountain of books waiting to be read. Toward the end of the talk, the doctor bent over and said to my younger son, “Hey Ryan, how are you? Recently, people have begun to contact Bettina for reasons other than praising her wonderful stories. I assumed from the title the plot would involve a complicated mission of freeing an interesting individual from some uniquely bad guys.

When disaster strikes, firstly in the form of a fire, and then family treachery, it’s up to Noa to help bring Raffy and Bea back home so the three friends can fight to save their beloved home.In 1996, I was still worried about my sister’s health, and 1996 was the year The Notebook was published. Thorburn does not think highly of The Rescue or of Conrad's “grandiose subtitles”; when comparing The Rescue to other works, he briefly mentions it as one of the “disappointing novels” and claims that the excess titling was an expression of weakness.

Raffy wasn’t meant to be at Ravenwood at all but on the night that Bea arrived, Raffy’s mother was looking for a fresh start and found one at Ravenwood with Bea’s uncle. The article’s success spurs her to seek out the boy who brought the dog to the clinic so she can do another feature about Felix and his escape from danger. They take him to a training facility where they are impressed and state they want to train Joe to be a DEA drug-sniffer.Joseph Conrad (born Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski) was a Polish-born English novelist who today is most famous for Heart of Darkness, his fictionalized account of Colonial Africa. One of the love options was incredibly creepy from the start and, although it seemed like Bettina could sense that, she was not heeding the red flags.