The Dust Of A Hundred Dogs by AS King

[SamanthaSamantha's icon]

Let me tell you about one of my favorite books...

"The Dust Of A 100 Dogs" is the story of Emer Morrisey, an Irish teenage pirate who's slain in battle shortly after burying her treasure and cursed with the feared Dust Of A 100 Dogs, which dooms her to an almost endless cycle of deaths and reincarnations as a canine, living all of those lives as both a stray and a pet.

The cycle is broken after her hundredth death as a dog, after which she's revived as Saffron Adams, an American teenager who has nonetheless retained all the memories of both her original life as a 17th Century pirate and of those lived under the curse. Saffron remembers where her treasure is buried, too, and only needs to find a way to make it to Jamaica to dig it up.

What makes the book so charming, funny and interesting to me is that Saffron is absolutely bitter about her previous 101 lives and becomes a VERY bloodthirsty teenager who has to constantly stop herself from slaying everyone she sees like she had once done as her go-to solution to any and all problems.

Much to her enormous annoyance, her old methods are no longer useful in the modern world (and could land her in serious trouble long before she grabs her shovel), so she resorts to small-scale bitchiness instead, which works for her on account of having been both a pirate and dozens of actual bitches throughout the ages.

This book isn't all that popular, but I just love it.

I hope you do, too.

 

[Mal]

oh this sounds interesting and i love the cover, any idea where i could find it?

 

[SamanthaSamantha's icon]

oh this sounds interesting and i love the cover, any idea where i could find it?

Sure thing.

I'll DM you something.