Peter Heller’s The Dog Stars is one of those books I really want to like more than I did. I really want to say it is a novel you should rush out to read. The praise for it on the back cover is over-the-top. I would like to join the chorus. Sigh. The Dog Stars is the tale of Hig (Big Hig if you want two names), living in a post-Apocalyptic world. The chief virtue of the book is the style. In his former life, Hig was a contractor who really loved poetry. The contractor bit comes in … [Read more...] about Looking For Love after the Apocalypse