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Title: Softly Calls the Serengeti
Author: Frank Coates
Narrator: Jerome Pride
Format: Unabridged
Length: 12 hrs and 16 mins
Language: English
Release date: 02-13-13
Publisher: Bolinda Publishing Pty Ltd
Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 3 votes
Genres: Fiction, Contemporary
Publisher's Summary:
Fires light the sky over Kibera - East Africa's largest slum. It is the prelude to the bloody violence that erupts during Kenya's presidential elections. Joshua Otieng is caught between the brutal realities of life in the slum, and his dream of a return to the glories of his ancestral past. Mayasa is a young woman he believes could share his dreams, but he becomes inexorably swept along in the tide of tribal conflict surrounding the upcoming elections.
Journalist Mark Riley travels to Kenya to find a missing orphan, and to escape the pain from his past. Two women - feisty anthropologist Charlotte Manning and beautiful, mysterious Kazlana Ramanova - rekindles his interest in the world. On a journey to the Serengeti, surrounded by the epic landscapes of Africa, they each discover that danger lurks everywhere and there is more to fear than just the wildlife....
Critic Reviews:
"Remarkable...adventuresome...suffused with tenderness." (Australian Book Review)
"Powerfully re-creates the turbulent past." (The Courier Mail)
Members Reviews:
Serengeti - what Serengeti?
The storyline is good from a conceptual perspective. However it was agonisingly slow developing momentum.
Sculpturing the various personalities was inconsistent and fuzzy.
It was disappointing that so little description of the Serengeti took place - I have great fondness for this region and was the reason I purchased the book. In fact the storyline has nothing to do with the Serengeti at all! The pace did pick up in the latter one third, which overall made it a satisfactory read but certainly not worth recommending.
The plot is not very convincing and lacks suspense. ...
The plot is not very convincing and lacks suspense. Although the author had spent some weeks in Kenya to research conditions, he has portrayed the Kenyans (the way they speak and inter act) similar to white Europeans. For someone that has lived all his life in Africa, I found that very distracting.
The slums are as bad as depicted in the book
Just returned from Kenya. The slums are as bad as depicted in the book.
One Star
Boring, confusing and tedious! Not the best.
Excellent
A well researched book with a great story line. Close to the real life facts!
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Title: Softly Calls the Serengeti
Author: Frank Coates
Narrator: Jerome Pride
Format: Unabridged
Length: 12 hrs and 16 mins
Language: English
Release date: 02-13-13
Publisher: Bolinda Publishing Pty Ltd
Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 3 votes
Genres: Fiction, Contemporary
Publisher's Summary:
Fires light the sky over Kibera - East Africa's largest slum. It is the prelude to the bloody violence that erupts during Kenya's presidential elections. Joshua Otieng is caught between the brutal realities of life in the slum, and his dream of a return to the glories of his ancestral past. Mayasa is a young woman he believes could share his dreams, but he becomes inexorably swept along in the tide of tribal conflict surrounding the upcoming elections.
Journalist Mark Riley travels to Kenya to find a missing orphan, and to escape the pain from his past. Two women - feisty anthropologist Charlotte Manning and beautiful, mysterious Kazlana Ramanova - rekindles his interest in the world. On a journey to the Serengeti, surrounded by the epic landscapes of Africa, they each discover that danger lurks everywhere and there is more to fear than just the wildlife....
Critic Reviews:
"Remarkable...adventuresome...suffused with tenderness." (Australian Book Review)
"Powerfully re-creates the turbulent past." (The Courier Mail)
Members Reviews:
Serengeti - what Serengeti?
The storyline is good from a conceptual perspective. However it was agonisingly slow developing momentum.
Sculpturing the various personalities was inconsistent and fuzzy.
It was disappointing that so little description of the Serengeti took place - I have great fondness for this region and was the reason I purchased the book. In fact the storyline has nothing to do with the Serengeti at all! The pace did pick up in the latter one third, which overall made it a satisfactory read but certainly not worth recommending.
The plot is not very convincing and lacks suspense. ...
The plot is not very convincing and lacks suspense. Although the author had spent some weeks in Kenya to research conditions, he has portrayed the Kenyans (the way they speak and inter act) similar to white Europeans. For someone that has lived all his life in Africa, I found that very distracting.
The slums are as bad as depicted in the book
Just returned from Kenya. The slums are as bad as depicted in the book.
One Star
Boring, confusing and tedious! Not the best.
Excellent
A well researched book with a great story line. Close to the real life facts!