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I thoroughly enjoyed Allende's mix of magical fantasy and realism which makes you believe you're in another world. Beautiful writing. Although it is completely different, any Harry Potter fan would love this. This book began as bedtime stories told to her own children and grandchildren who persuaded her to put it on paper.
my first all Spanish novel!
Gah! I was really disappointed with this little series from Allende. I love her books so much, but she did NOT successfully make the transition to writing for younger readers. The plots of all three in the series were very interesting and could have been a lot of fun, but the writing was often awkward and forced, especially the magical bits. The characters were a little two-dimensional, and even the dialogue was strained. She had some nifty ideas, but it seemed like she was trying to dumb them d...
Isabel Allende's Eagle and Jaguar series is a young adult-oriented fantasy series that takes us through several adventures in different regions of the world. City of the Beasts focuses on the Amazon rainforest, introducing us to a variety of different, partly ancient cultures and their secrets and treasures outlined through Allende's skillful application of elements of magical realism.Allende knows how to insert more complex thematic issues and questions into a less sophisticated setting in comp...
DNF at 57%This story is not engaging me. It is meandering along and going nowhere very fast.
"The longer I live, the more uninformed I feel. Only the young have an explanation for everything." I saw this book lurking in my bookshelf the other day and a sense of nostalgia swept over me as I remembered how this might have been one of the first Young Adult books I've ever read, all the way back when I wasn't even one myself. I picked this up again, wondering how well I remembered things and how I perceived them now. In this Amazonian adventure, fifteen year old Alexander Cold is sent ou
Honestly, this book sucked. Majorly. Giving it two stars was generous, to say the least.The beginning was boring beyond belief. I had to read this for school, and my class and I begged the teacher to let us read another one. It had no interest for us, no appeal. I hated the grandmother, didn't know what to think of the main character, and was bored out of my mind by the language. When the main character was swimming with the dolphins, the story basically went, 'I was having so much fun. It was t...
I read this book with my 12 year old son. We both quite enjoyed it, but didn't love it. It is a coming of age tale/adventure story/fantasy/eco-thriller for young adults. I think possibly it was trying to be too many things! One thing I did appreciate was the fact that the protagonist's grandmother was so far from a stereotypical granny figure in children's lit - she is a chain smoking, vodka drinking, plain talking hard as nails journalist.
This is really like Indy Jones, though unlike her adult books, Allende tells too much instead of showing.What is interesting about this book is the amount of background as well as action Allende packs into the book. During the journey in the Amazon, the characters of both Alex and Nadia are totally real as are most of the supporting characters. A good quick read for an adult
Trigger warnings: parent with cancer, death, violence, some really weird and icky treatment of indigenous populations. This was aggressively meh. I've enjoyed Isabel Allende's books in the past, so I figured it was worth trying one of her YA books. And while this started pretty solidly, this rapidly became dull. The whole thing just sort of became very action-centric with no depth at all to the characters. And when there turned out to be a subplot in which (view spoiler)[there was a plan to kill...
What an absolutely splendid book by Isabel Allende! I haven't read any of her young adult books before and this is the first one in the Eagle and Jaguar Series. Such a joy to read! When I was in my teens I don't believe that I had the choice of books that is now readily available for YAs or even middle grade youngsters.The plot I found quite riveting and there were even instances when I was nervous to turn the page I'm certainly not a type who gets frightened easily but I have to say Isabel Alle...
Getting to the end of this book was very difficult, simply because it was so boring. It was one of the worst books I read for quite some time.Everything in the book was over-simplified and childish, from the setting to the characters to the plot. I especially didn't like the pseudo-fantasy, bordering on new-age elements. I'm not sure what demographic it is aimed to, but I would probably not have liked it at any age. It seemed like the author got a very wrong idea about what YA books should be li...
When I first got that book for Christmas (and in german) a couple years ago, I really didn't knew if I should like it. At that time I did not liked reading that much. But it was a present, so I started it. And couldn't stop! I loved it. The way Isabel Allende made it so understandable how life in a Rain forest could be, and is. It is truly amazing. The story of Nadja and Alexander, how they became best friends and thought they would never see each other again after that miraculous adventure - fa...
I gave this book 5 stars because it had history and many action(which is a thing i love in books). Both things were great mixed together because Miss Allende made the book have action with history(from which you could learn from)without making it boring to read. This book has characters who probably could connect with you and very read to read about,because this book has characters of every kind. The City of Beasts is about an American kid called Alex who has to go visit his grandmother. While v...
