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Lionboy: The Chase
Written by Zizou Corder
Narrated by Simon Jones
Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
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About this audiobook
Charlie and his lion friends have made it safely to Venice, but it turns out that their journey has only just begun. King Boris's palace was meant to be a haven, but it's starting to feel more like a prison. When word arrives from the cat grapevine that his parents are not being held in Italy after all, Charlie knows he must take fast action. Luckily a new ally has come on the scene-and just in the knick of time: Rafi is in hot pursuit.
This second book in the Lionboy trilogy is even more action-packed than the first, offering clever escapes, shipwreck, a prehistoric beast named Primo who will prove himself a great hero, and surprises that will shock and delight. It's an exhilarating, suspenseful whirlwind of a story, and listeners will be clamoring for more.
This second book in the Lionboy trilogy is even more action-packed than the first, offering clever escapes, shipwreck, a prehistoric beast named Primo who will prove himself a great hero, and surprises that will shock and delight. It's an exhilarating, suspenseful whirlwind of a story, and listeners will be clamoring for more.
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Reviews for Lionboy
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Lionboy was a very good book. I especially like how he was scratched and now can talk to cats.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Vivid pageturner. Delightfully non-sexist, non-racist, democratic, earthfriendly, while being a rollicking good tale.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5In this surprisingly action-drama, stars a young boy named Charlie Ashanti. This boy is very special however, where he can talk to any kind of feline. He's usually referred in this book as the "cat-speaker", but he unfortunately is the only one of his power. All in all, he still likes it that way. This book is also the second in the "Lion Boy" series and starts off where the first book left off.Where the book left off is the point when Charlie lets his lions advance towards the King of Bulgaria, and finds out that the king will let him stay at his piazza in Venice. As a reader, you soon find out that the King will not go with Charlie, but his best body guard will. While all of this is going on, Charlie's parents are locked up in a building, which is run by an asthma drug company, called the Community. Their mission was to kidnap Charlie's parents and find out their cure for asthma. As you now know, that this company was an asthma drug company, so if they got rid of their cure, they can still have customers using their money on their product. If everyone had the cure, there would be no more customers.We soon find our hero in King Boris's piazza in Venice where he has a strange welcoming. The king's bodyguard, Edward, had locked up the lions somewhere, and Charlie was not allowed to see them. After all, Charlie immediately found that irritating for just traveling half of the old world and went to him to negotiate. Edward soon told him that a couple of years ago, the king had a fight with the Doge of Venice. Edward wanted to clear up this dispute by presenting the Doge the "Lion of San Marco", the patriarch of Venice. He was going to do this by putting animatronic wings on the lion’s ancestor, who was the mysterious beast in the first book, Primo. Charlie hated this decision, but he soon made a plan to escape after Edward presented Primo with a local gondolier named Claudio.When it came to that day, after Edward presented Primo, Charlie ran to his planned escape boat and boarded all of the lions; the Old lion, the Young lion, Elsina, the silvery lioness and the other lioness. Unfortunately after the people of Venice saw Primo, they announced him patron and replaced the evil Doge who was a tyrant to begin with. Primo told Charlie that he would love to go to Africa but decided to stay with his people. After that they were off to the port city of Essauoria in Africa. Meanwhile, Charlie's parents had escaped the wretched community and were searching for Charlie in Paris. They soon met up with Madgelan's older sister Mabel ,and had disputes and didn't want to talk to each other until they reached Essauoria.When Charlie was reaching Essauoria, his boat crashed and sank. All of his friends and himself were tossed to shore and soon were taken care of. On the island Charlie defeats Rafi and Mocomo, his old boss and brings his lions back to their home in Africa. After a long good-bye Charlie finds his parents and soon they try to find a home.Throughout my hours of reading this amazing book I will like to comment on three specific things. Those things are Zizou Corder's writing, the main story's idea, and some of the dislikes I had during this book.In my best opinion, the author of the books writing, Zizou Corder is a very good writer. You can tell she has been writing for a very long time by finding no mistakes in the already edited copy. She also writes like a in book dictionary when a foreign word comes up, she says in parenthesis that that word means in that language. That can be very helpful for younger readers who might make up their own definition for that word. In my opinion I love the way she writes because she always makes it seem it is in real time but still be in the third person. This in retro-spec is really cool because in your head it seems like you are watching a movie but you’re the cameraman experiencing each feature about that chapter. Another feature about this book that I like is the main idea of the story. I just like the whole lion theme because for some reason I've been on a high lately on lion based films, for example, the Narnia series and the Lion King. I also like in the story, the whole concept about a boy's parents being captured, and that the drive of his love for them creates a grand adventure. Although at some points, when his parents become captured by anti-social people, I found that predictable. Mostly every book in history ,that has a boy protagonist has his parents being captured, the Harry Potter series, the Percy Jackson series book 1. I thought she would have varied it a bit?The faults are few in this book, one of them is that I felt like I became lost in the words of the book and I could not read faster, maybe that is just me? Zizou Corder's perfect writing just didn't feel normal to me. Sometimes I found myself reading the same sentence twenty times. The final comment I have ,is that the ending was very vague in a sense that the series could have ended right there! That makes the reader think that all of the enjoyment of the lions will not come back, so a lot of people who liked that aspect of the book might drop it.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Well-done world-building and character development. No cliches or tropes. The description of the circus is reason enough, imo, to read the book.
I love how Charlie is a kid - brave, clever, but still a kid. I love how we spend time with the parents - they aren't just vaguely waiting to be rescued. I love how even minor characters are well-developed.
I found the book both intelligent and exciting. My only quibbles are the big heaping pile of luck at the end, and the fact that I don't quite care enough to follow the rest of the adventure. - Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5This book is about an african american boy named charles, who lived in afica with his parents. One day his parents were parent napped by a bully named Rafi. Now scared by rafi Charles runs away to one of his parents friend who leaves africa on a HUGE ship that goes to france. On this boat is one big circus the charles works at throughout the story. He starts as a money trainer but then gets upgraded to the lionboy.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Inventive book set sometime in the future, post-environmental apocalypse.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5lion boy is about this seemingly normal kid name charlie ,but he has a secert he can speak cat.It happened when his DNA mixed with a leopard when he was in africa.It might help him ,when his parent and him are kidnapped, because they found the cure for asmua.He escaped ,but now he has to go to find them.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Fantastic! A truly imaginative book with creative setting characters and plot. Not the same old recycled adventure! My only peeve is that the end hangs . . . I like closure! I can't wait to read the rest in the series.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Charlie's mum is English and his dad is African, from Ghana. He has lived with them in both places. His parents are scientists. They have been kidnapped, but Charlie does not know by who or why or where they are.He sets off from their home in London to find them, and ends up hired as a lion trainer on a circus ship- he is Lion Boy!This is good because he speaks "Cat".First book in the Lionboy trilogy.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Classic adventure story replete with lions, big enjoyable characters, and a circus. Very readable, fast paced and highly entertaining.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Lion Boy trilogy is one of the most enjoyable and entertaining series to be published in years. The full-formed characters of Charlie, Rafi, King Boris, and crew draw the reader into an exciting adventure filled with kidnappings, wild animals, and a fight to put an end to a mysterious evil laboratory. Add in exotic locations such as Morocco, Venice, and Africa, and you've got a book you can't put down. The narrator of the audio book does a fantastic job of bringing the many characters to life. My only complaint with this series is that the first book did start out rather slow, which is too bad because some readers might be lost with the slow beginning. But the pace picks up considerably with the next two books.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Charlie Ashanti is a very special boy. Since he was very small, he's had the ability to speak with cats. This can come in handy sometimes... Like when his scientist parents are kidnapped and Charlie runs away to find them and escapes onto a wonderful circus boat where he meets a pride of lions that is willing to help him in exchange for his help getting them free from the circus...A rip-roaring fantasy adventure with a very likeable main character.
- Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5I had a hard time with this one.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Interesting young adult fantasy for a Saturday stuck indoors. Not the greatest, but not a bad read either. It leaves you hanging so have the sequels ready or you will be disappointed.