I'm a big fan of them, and it sucks that they're 90% of the time portrayed as ruthless villains in media taking place in Africa, but this book has a nice balancing act going on. However, unlike in Kona's Song where they mythology was sparsely used, the mythical elements are a little bit more at play here with Kachula meeting his deceased daughter once and later joining the dead lions with Simba, the first king.Īnother thing I really liked was its portrayal of hyenas. I really dig how this book both mixes real lion behavior (including the darker aspects such as having to kill cubs) with more human aspects and even some mythology. I felt that it was a slight improvement over the last, and lives up to its potential way more. I liked this book quite a lot, even better than Kona's Song. And even after they manage to obtain one, it's not an easy task to keep their subjects safe. They soon grow successful at survival, but they wish to have a pride of their own. When he is a young-adult and two nomad males take over, he and his brother Shango are banished and now forced to look after themselves. We meet Kachula, a young lion living in his own pride. Turns out, the author did write another book, this time about lions, so let's have a look. It was a fine book that had quite a bit of unrealized potential, so I did want to read more by Searl. I've previously reviewed Kona's Song, a book about wolves by the same author.
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