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Praise for City of the Beasts:
'Written with Allende's characteristic verve, City of the Beasts is the kind of accomplishment to show young readers that there's more to life than Harry Potter.' Literary Review
'A vivid fable… Allende's prose soars' Guardian
'Marvellous, marvel-filled… Beautifully written and utterly entrancing' Independent on Sunday
Praise for Kingdom of the Golden Dragon:
‘Allende again proves her talent for evoking exotic landscapes, spinning tall stories and weaving seductive magic.’ Sunday Times
'This spellbinding novel, like its predecessor, is storytelling at its best' Mail on Sunday
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From one of the world’s best loved storytellers, the trilogy that began with City of the Beasts comes to a thrilling climax.
Alexander Cold knows all too well his grandmother Kate is never far from an adventure. When National Geographic commissions her to write an article about the first elephant-led safaris in Africa, they head – with Nadia Santos and the magazine's photography crew – to the blazing, red plains of Kenya. Days into the tour, a Catholic missionary approaches the camp in search of his companions who have mysteriously disappeared. Kate, Alexander, Nadia, and their team, agreeing to aid the rescue, enlists the help of a local pilot to lead them to the swampy forests of Ngoubé. There they discover a clan of Pygmies who unveil a harsh and surprising world of corruption, slavery, and poaching.
Alexander and Nadia, entrusting the magical strengths of Jaguar and Eagle, their totemic animal spirits, launch a spectacular and precarious struggle to restore freedom and return leadership to its rightful hands.
The final instalment of Isabel Allende's celebrated trilogy soars with radiant settings, spirits, beings – and the transformation of an extraordinary friendship.
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Truly magical, and the best of the trilogy.
What annoyed me about this book the most were the mistranslations and the errors. For a start, the translator had the irritating habit of using 'terrorized' instead of 'terrified'. This quibble sounds pedantic but if you consider the words in context, they actually have quite different meanings and the error was repeated many times during the course of the book. The worst mistake by far is when a crocodile is referred to as an amphibian in the narrative. It's a mistake even a child could spot and I don't see how the translator could have caused it, so it must have been Allende's fault (and her editor's for not spotting it). Perhaps she should do her research more thoroughly?
Allende is one of my favourite writers for adult books but i found her series of three childrens books and in browsing them I couldnt put them down... Read more
Unfortunately I was disapointed. Read more
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