I liked this book and I feel like, to the average person, it could be really brilliant but, although I did like the characters and I found Enzo the dog to be thoroughly likeable, despite my initial reservations about an intelligent dog, I did find some sections to be quite boring. This is probably largely due to the fact that I couldn't be less interested in motor racing. I get that a lot of the motor racing stuff relates to other stuff about real life and has deeper meaning but I still struggled to find it interesting most of the time. I did like all the stuff about the family though and I very much hated a certain couple I won't mention so Garth Stein's certainly made me feel the intended emotions there. Over all a pretty good book but let down by my own inability to force any interest in anything that can be classified as sport (except Quidditch).