3.5
Rose in a Storm
ByPublisher Description
BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Jon Katz's Going Home.
Rose is determined and focused, keeping the sheep out of danger and protecting the other creatures on the farm she calls home. But of all those she’s looked after since coming to the farm as a puppy, it is Sam, the farmer, whom she watches most carefully.
Awoken one cold midwinter night during lambing season, Rose and Sam struggle into the snowy dark to do their work. The ever observant Rose has seen a change in her master of late, ever since Sam’s wife disappeared one day. She senses something else in the air as well: A storm is coming, but not like any of the ones she’s seen over the years. And when an epic blizzard hits the region, it will take all of Rose’s resolve, resourcefulness, and courage to help Sam save the farm and the creatures who live there.
Rose is determined and focused, keeping the sheep out of danger and protecting the other creatures on the farm she calls home. But of all those she’s looked after since coming to the farm as a puppy, it is Sam, the farmer, whom she watches most carefully.
Awoken one cold midwinter night during lambing season, Rose and Sam struggle into the snowy dark to do their work. The ever observant Rose has seen a change in her master of late, ever since Sam’s wife disappeared one day. She senses something else in the air as well: A storm is coming, but not like any of the ones she’s seen over the years. And when an epic blizzard hits the region, it will take all of Rose’s resolve, resourcefulness, and courage to help Sam save the farm and the creatures who live there.
Download the free Fable app
Stay organized
Keep track of what you’re reading, what you’ve finished, and what’s next.
Build a better TBR
Swipe, skip, and save with our smart list-building tool
Rate and review
Share your take with other readers with half stars, emojis, and tags
Curate your feed
Meet readers like you in the Fable For You feed, designed to build bookish communitiesStay organized
Keep track of what you’re reading, what you’ve finished, and what’s next.Build a better TBR
Swipe, skip, and save with our smart list-building toolRate and review
Share your take with other readers with half stars, emojis, and tagsCurate your feed
Meet readers like you in the Fable For You feed, designed to build bookish communitiesRose in a Storm Reviews
3.5
“Spoilers…summary for my own benefit. Rose was a border collie living on a farm with her owner Sam. Sam had lost his wife Katie to illness. Rose had loved Katie and never stopped looking for her not understanding where she had gone. Sam had become very attached to Rose who was a working dog on the farm. Rose and Sam worked the livestock with mutual understanding, and Sam couldn’t imagine running the farm without Rose. During a terrible snow storm, Sam is injured and is taken to a hospital for three days. Sam tries to take Rose with him but she refuses to go. The storm worsens and she spends three days defending the farm and the animals from coyotes and foxes. Rose does an amazing job of protecting and feeding the animals against all odds. Several animals were lost to the extreme cold and lack of food and water but most survive. An old wild dog that Rose had seen in the fields many times approaches the farm looking for shelter from the storm, and Rose allows him to come to the barn. The two dogs end up bonding and it is revealed that he is actually her father. When Rose is finally exhausted and can no longer hold off the hungry coyotes from attacking the animals, she is attacked. As she goes unconscious, a huge wolf shows up and kills a coyote and scares off the others and then disappears. In the beginning of the story, Rose used to go into the woods and play with a wolf puppy, so I assume it was that now adult wolf that saved her. Sam comes home to find Rose near death being guarded by the old wild dog. After quite a while at the vet and several surgeries later, Rose comes back to the farm. Sam has had the old wild dog vetted and he is much healthier now and lives out his life on the farm with Sam and Rose. Rose is bred and at the end of the story is about to have her puppies and goes to where she used to love to sit with Katie to have her puppies and imagines Katie there with her. A heartwarming story.”
About Jon Katz
Jon Katz has written nineteen books—seven novels and twelve works of nonfiction—including Soul of a Dog, Izzy & Lenore, Dog Days, A Good Dog, and The Dogs of Bedlam Farm. He has written for The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Slate, Rolling Stone, Wired, and the AKC Gazette. He has worked for CBS News, The Boston Globe, The Washington Post, and The Philadelphia Inquirer. Katz is also a photographer and the author of a children’s book, Meet the Dogs of Bedlam Farm. He lives on Bedlam Farm in upstate New York with the artist Maria Heinrich; his dogs, Rose, Izzy, Lenore, and Frieda; and his barn cats, Mother and Minnie.
Other books by Jon Katz
Start a Book Club
Start a public or private book club with this book on the Fable app today!FAQ
Do I have to buy the ebook to participate in a book club?
Why can’t I buy the ebook on the app?
How is Fable’s reader different from Kindle?
Do you sell physical books too?
Are book clubs free to join on Fable?
How do I start a book club with this book on Fable?
