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Joan and her toddler son, Lincoln, are hurrying to make it out of the zoo before closing time when Joan hears a clatter of gunfire and comes across bodies on the ground. She picks up Lincoln and starts running, and the entire book takes place in the next four hours, as Joan, Lincoln, and a few other people try to stay alive and evade the gunmen hunting them in the park. There is an incredible focus in this book that works very well. Just like the characters, the reader feels cut off from the rest of the world. Nothing before the zoo matters, nothing outside the zoo matters. Only the zoo matters, and the survival of these few people. The sense of place, a sprawling zoo, with its primate zone and monkey house and winding paths and train tracks and sand pits, is fantastic; you feel that you are in a park with dark spreading around you, and killers waiting around every corner. Overall,the action is the most effective action writing I've read since Hunger Games; after a slightly slow start, when Joan and Lincoln spend a bit too much time hiding in one spot, it reads like an uninterrupted action sequence.

There's also a nice depiction of motherhood, as Joan struggles to keep Lincoln alive and psychologically intact, trying to protect him from the terror around them; and there are some moral questions around what (and who) is a mother willing to sacrifice to save her son. There are some neat twists in the writing and the action sequences that work well.

BUT there is one big caveat and a detraction to my enjoyment: be warned that Fierce Kingdom has a frustrating ending - almost a cliffhanger. If the entire novel is about what happens to a mother and son trapped in a zoo with terrorists, shouldn't we know what happens to the mother and son trapped in a zoo with terrorists, when the book is done? To leave it ambiguous felt like a shot at some sort of vague literary ambition, and it made me just irritated.


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Fierce Kingdom A Novel Gin Phillips 9780735224520 Books Reviews

While not a perfect book (partially because of the movement back and forth between various points of view, some of them more compelling than others), I was totally absorbed from first page to last. Characters -- especially the mother whose point of view occupies most of the story -- are well realized, so well realized that I wanted more insights into the minds of various other characters. My title calls it a "page turner," which it certainly is. It is so much more, however.
I ordered this book after hearing an interview with Ms. Phillips on NPR. The book sounded intriguing -- I am a mother too and was curious to see how the author worked those feelings into this work. Well, I started reading immediately upon receiving it. Unfortunately, it made me stay up late, get up early, and be late to work! I haven't read such a true "page turner" in a very long time. The treatment of Joan's feelings as the mother was spot-on. I figured Ms. Phillips would do a great job when she said during her interview that she didn't write a "Die Hard in the Zoo" sort of book. Awesome!!! Wish the stars went up to 11!
I don't want to give away any spoilers in the event that you do choose to read this book. Some parts of the book move kind of slow and some parts are very exciting but overall, in my opinion, it just wasn't very good. I think some people like endings where nothing is resolved and you never actually know what happened to any of the characters but I like to see more of the loose ends tied up.
Lions, Tigers, and Bears oh my! While this is set in a zoo it focuses on a three hour window of time in which a mass shooting occurs in the zoo. It follows a mother and son as they try and survive this tragic event. While I can see why some people have not liked this book. I loved it and thought it was a real page turner and that it focused on an issue that is truly relevant in our society today, mass shootings. I will say that I was a little disappointed with the ending and wish it had continued on a little bit more since the reader is left with many unanswered questions.

I would recommend this to anyone who loves a fast paced thriller!
This is both a fast -paced thriller and a delicious account of a mother's connection to her 4 year old son. It is one of the few books in which I could recognize exactly what it felt like to have access to a 4 year old's endlessly fascinating stories about the world. And to be in mortal danger with that child- unthinkable but made quite real in the novel. Both mother and son were well -developed characters , as were others whom they encountered during their flight from armed killers. The choices the mother had to make during these perilous hours were both believable and thought- provoking.
I realize that that I’m probably not the target demographic author Gin Phillips was going for with her novel “Fierce Kingdom”. Her story of a trio of deranged young men who terrorize a zoo in a sadly familiar mass shooting incident is suspenseful enough but geared towards a female audience. Phillips pushes all the right buttons to work the maternal emotions of her woman readers. Not having any kids of my own I couldn’t fully relate to the peril of young mother Joan and her loquacious 4 year old son Lincoln as they literally run for their lives. Not having been exposed to many precocious toddlers I found this kid a little too verbose and with a vocabulary that nearly rivals William F. Buckley. When Joan deliberately tosses her cell phone to distract her pursuers giving up her link to the outside world and her anxious hubby left me shaking my head in wonder. Still “Fierce Kingdom” is an interesting enough read that will keep many readers on the edge of their chairs.
I was expecting something a little different. Having said that I did enjoy the book. There were times I was holding my breath with Joan and Lincoln. My low score is due to the ending. HATED it. Left the story incomplete in my opinion.
Joan and her toddler son, Lincoln, are hurrying to make it out of the zoo before closing time when Joan hears a clatter of gunfire and comes across bodies on the ground. She picks up Lincoln and starts running, and the entire book takes place in the next four hours, as Joan, Lincoln, and a few other people try to stay alive and evade the gunmen hunting them in the park. There is an incredible focus in this book that works very well. Just like the characters, the reader feels cut off from the rest of the world. Nothing before the zoo matters, nothing outside the zoo matters. Only the zoo matters, and the survival of these few people. The sense of place, a sprawling zoo, with its primate zone and monkey house and winding paths and train tracks and sand pits, is fantastic; you feel that you are in a park with dark spreading around you, and killers waiting around every corner. Overall,the action is the most effective action writing I've read since Hunger Games; after a slightly slow start, when Joan and Lincoln spend a bit too much time hiding in one spot, it reads like an uninterrupted action sequence.

There's also a nice depiction of motherhood, as Joan struggles to keep Lincoln alive and psychologically intact, trying to protect him from the terror around them; and there are some moral questions around what (and who) is a mother willing to sacrifice to save her son. There are some neat twists in the writing and the action sequences that work well.

BUT there is one big caveat and a detraction to my enjoyment be warned that Fierce Kingdom has a frustrating ending - almost a cliffhanger. If the entire novel is about what happens to a mother and son trapped in a zoo with terrorists, shouldn't we know what happens to the mother and son trapped in a zoo with terrorists, when the book is done? To leave it ambiguous felt like a shot at some sort of vague literary ambition, and it made me just irritated.