La Ciudad De Las Bestias / City of the Beasts

from librarymeanslove

It took me a long time to get through this story, as it does not lend itself well to scattered reading, and we had a family crisis happening when I started it. But everything about the book is excellent and the end is surprising and powerful. It was just too long for my attention span. Reading it...

from DeltaQueen50

I found City of the Beasts by Isabel Allende an absorbing read. Telling the story of Alexander, who is sent off to accompany his grandmother on an expedition to the Amazon. His family is in crisis, with his mother very ill with cancer. Alex and his sisters are to be farmed out to the grandparents...

from unlikelyaristotle

At first I was wary of this book, when I realized there would be odd non-human characters walking around in the amazon - I'm not a great fan of fantasy - but this turned out to be a great read. The characters - even the supernatural ones - were fun to read about, but I would limit the description...

from wiremonkey

Allende's first y/a novel in the Alexander Cold trilogy, The City of Beasts is an exciting adventure story that also packs a political and spiritual punch. Through her main character Alexander Cold, the Amazon jungle and its inhabitants are able to demonstrate the wisdom still left to teach those...

from mattlhm

City of the Beasts, by Isabel Allende, follows Alexander, a disgruntled 15-year-old tagging along on a trek up the Amazon River. He befriends a local girl who can talk to the indigenous Indians along the way. This skill allows them both to relunctantly enter into a supernatural otherworld where t...