The book started off well enough - man loves his family, moves closer to his mother, retired from the Air Force, blah blah blah. Then he takes way too long to let the reader know his dog survived being shot while he waxes on unnecessarily about nothing. Then, to top it off, the boredom is overtaken by weirdness. The writer’s style is monotonous, and wordy. The characters are actually overdeveloped, and the plot is missing. Be kind to yourself and skip this one.