I don't like to write bad reviews so I'm not going to say anything badly about this book. However, it just wasn't my style. I couldn't get into it and I found myself flipping ahead to see if it'd get more interesting, but unfortunately it did not.

It started out a little bizarre, but I kept reading. This was a very interesting, twisting story and not what I expected at all. I really enjoyed reading this author's work and will look for more.

I recently started a book challenge list that asked me to read a book with the word "dog" in the title and to my delight when searching the NetGalley list The Dog Walker's Diary came up first.

Daniel Ashe is a literary agent who has never fell in love and is looking for an awesome story to get his career moving. Oh, and unbeknownst to him, he is looking for a dog walker for his dog's Sparks and Eddie.

Annie Doherty is a beguiling, red-headed, Irish dog walker/witty short story writer who is Daniel's unexpected nemesis.

Daniel and Annie's story is enjoyable with the lure of attraction and intrigue. The witty repertoire between the two is refreshing and Annie's stories written on behalf of the dogs are hilarious. The mystery thrown into the story was a surprise, and I really thought the other characters worked well. Overall, I read it in one session and thought the humor was energizing. I actually laughed out loud several times!

Thank you to Ms. Donahue and NetGalley for giving me the opportunity to review the book.

I loved this unusual romance. The book is well written with a great plot. I enjoyed the author's writing and hope to read more of her books.

Ms. Donahue has created the most intriguing, unique story I've come across this year. This is not your cookie-cutter romance, folks. In fact, it's not even close. I'm struggling to even find a way to describe this book. It's told from the hero's (Daniel's) point of view, but much of it comes straight from the mind of the heroine (Annie) through stories she has written in the Dog Diary and emails to Daniel. I fell in love with both of these characters and the critters that surrounded them. I laughed out loud one minute and wanted to throw my Kindle across the room the next. Rarely does a book illicit this range of emotion from me. I love (nay, REQUIRE) an HEA in a romance to feel satisfied, and I began to worry at one point that an HEA wouldn't be found. I was wrong. And thank goodness for that, particularly since the HEA is delightful. I suspect this book will be snatched up and turned into a movie at some point.

t is very rare that I immediately write a review after finishing a book -- in fact it might be the second or third time I do so, which means that The Dog Walker's Diary left such an impression on me that I'm still trying to figure it out.

But I know I loved it. I haven't laughed out loud at a book a while, and I flat out panicked when my table battery DIED in the middle of a climactic chapter.

Daniel, a 40-something literary agent is stuck in life. Unable to fall in love, be successful in his job, or cook a decent meal, hires a red-headed Irish dog walker who changes his life completely. Unable to overcome his fear of red-heads, Daniel and Annie correspond via a Dog Diary where Annie creates stories about the dogs she walks.

Annie Doherty shows up at just the right time. Daniel Ashe spends more time than he might like at his office as a literary agent where his job consists of gently crushing other people’s dreams when he has to refuse their screenplays. So much time, that he isn’t able to care for his dogs the way he should. Annie magically appears, a red-headed Irish dogwalker, ready to help Daniel out. The two communicate through a diary that Annie leaves at Daniel’s house, where she weaves magical stories about his dogs lives, both past and present (one elderly wiener was once a great lion). He in turn leaves her notes, trying to explain away his clumsiness around her (he has a thing for redheads) and other bits an pieces about his life. I didn’t know what to expect when I started this book. Little did I know I would be swept up into one of the most magical and lovely stories I’ve ever read. From the dogs and their lives in circuses and aboard pirate ships to the relationship between Annie and Daniel to Donahue’s incredible ability to romance the English language, this is a book to savor, pass on, and keep in your heart