This is just the saddest book I've ever read. If you've seen my face emblazoned on the one-of-a-kind T-Shirts I offer, you can see I'm a buff, tough guy. (Available, too). But I have to say that this book made be cry anyways. Though this book appears on many "Young Adult" lists netwide, I liked it anyways. (This implying that I'm not a "Young Adult", see?)
I'm a cat person, and could be said to like furry things more than "normal" people, which could explain why I started reading it in the first place. I don't think that's a requirement to like the book though.
The story takes place, as the cover explains, 25 million years ago. Ratha and her people are the Named, a group of intelligent felines who herd game animals. They are at odds with the Un-Named, cats who are more nomadic, and have no social laws. These Un-Named occasionally raid the animals of the Named, and are endangering their existence until Ratha discovers how to control fire. Far from welcoming this advantage, the clan throws her out, and she is left to fend for herself in a place where she has never had to. This is just the beginning of the things Ratha encounters during her arduous existence, and as the reader, you're taken along through both her good and bad experiences.
read. The words aren't too complex, but the ideas are very deep, setting this book apart from others in the class. Although slightly less than complex book in wording, if you like cats as I do, this book is very absorbing to