The characters, the way the book was written, the tie-ins with New York City and the Point of View all come together to create a literary masterpiece. I loved this book because of it's world, and it's complexity. Even though the book is set in New York, Evans has created a completely different way of looking at it. In a squirrels eyes, cars become death machines. The sewers and drains become a kingdom beneath. Skyscrapers become mountains. Garbage bags become seed pods, full of food.
All the different types of animal have their own language, and Patch Our hero can speak both mammal and bird. Evans has created an amazing world, with things we can all rate too. The battle scenes are epic, and I loved that each of the animals became a sort of infantry class.
Squirrels and rats become basic soldiers. Cats are like Hummers, powerful and dangerous, but not indestructible, and Hawks become stealth bombers, capable of tearing enemies to shreds. There are other types of animals in the story too, but I won't give them all away.
I could go on for days about how good this book is, and I can genuinely say that, should this book get a bit more hype, it could go down in history as a classic. And the best part is, it's free! You can read it right now, on goodreads! Trust me, you won't regret reading this book.
Read it. View 1 comment. Nov 07, Amber rated it it was amazing Shelves: ebooksiown , free-from-smashwords. Patch is a squirrel who lives in central park in the treetops tribe.
When the food goes missing along with his fellow squirrels, Patch goes to find out what happened to them. When he tries to find food and sees the rats devour one of his squirrel brethren, Patch is sent far away from home. Can Patch return in time to save his world from the rat's evil plan to destroy all the squirrels and more?
Read on and find out for yourself. This was a pretty good action-packed dark animal fantasy about the a Patch is a squirrel who lives in central park in the treetops tribe. This was a pretty good action-packed dark animal fantasy about the animals of New York City. If you want to see what the big apple is like through an animal's eyes, check out this book. You'll enjoy it. Oct 16, Kate rated it it was amazing.
Beasts of New York is about a squirrel named Patch who, out of desperation and need, adventures beyond his home in Central Kingdom to try and save it. While it seems that fate is conspiring against him, taking him further from his home than any squirrel has traveled, his journey is a necessary step to saving all of Central Kingdom from the evil trying to consume it. What did I love about this book? Well, first of all, Patch is an amazingly brave squirrel.
No one can read this book and not ad EPIC! No one can read this book and not admire his determination. He has a way of making friends wherever he goes, not by being overtly friendly, but by being him.
Would we could all so easily say, "I don't care what the other squirrels think. The horrors that Patch encounters at times seemed so unreal to me, despite knowing where they were.
Seeing them from another pair of eyes gave some things a new air of terror and others one of wonder. This is not a light novel. It is very dark, and at times absolutely horrifying, but I connected so much to Patch as a hero that, in the end, I was left with tears of relief and happiness in my eyes. Apr 05, Cathy rated it it was amazing Recommends it for: Everyone.
This book is superb! Think Watership Down and this is the squirrel version. Not the sort of book I would have normally chosen to read, but I read it by recommendation and thoroughly enjoyed it.
It really was a page turner or page clicker if you read it on your Kindle! It's well written and extraordinarily well observed - the view of the world from a squirrel's perspective is ingenious.
Without doubt, you will view squirrels quite differently after reading this. It's crying out for a film ver This book is superb! It's crying out for a film version. I am certainly going to read more from this author. Jul 21, Em rated it it was amazing Shelves: favorites , tt-vi. Dec 12, Dots rated it it was amazing Shelves: favorites. Who knew the adventure of a squirrel in New York could be so jam-packed full of exciting adventure?
Quite the fairytale- geared towards adults. This book is fantastic. Shelves: ebooks , canadian-authors , memorable-favourites , indie-books. I really enjoyed this story.
It's exactly what it says it is, a children's book for adults. If you like action, adventure, and lovable animals all rolled into one you'll love this book. It's well worth the read. I think of this book quite often and smile. How often do you read a book and a year later still think of the antics of the characters involved? Now that the author has finally found a publisher and it i I really enjoyed this story. Now that the author has finally found a publisher and it is available in hardcover I went and bought it, I enjoyed it that much.
If you enjoyed it as much as I did and you think it deserves to be recognized I suggest you visit the Canada Reads website and submit it for your own recommendation for the region of Ontario.
Sep 24, Jen rated it it was amazing Shelves: general-fiction. I would recommend this book to anyone who has enjoyed reading the Harry Potter series. While that might seem a bit of a leap, one of the most beloved components to Harry Potter is the wonder that is inspired by the imagination of an entirely different world within our world.
Here you find that same wonder by experiencing New York City as seen by squirrels- and it is a completely different world. I cannot stress enough the enjoyment I recieved reading about Patch's adventures and seeing the worl I would recommend this book to anyone who has enjoyed reading the Harry Potter series. I cannot stress enough the enjoyment I recieved reading about Patch's adventures and seeing the world through a new set of eyes.
I think of this book quite often and smile. How often do you read a book and a year later still think of the antics of the characters involved? Now that the author has finally found a publisher and it is available in hardcover I went and bought it, I enjoyed it that much.
If you enjoyed it as much as I did and you think it deserves to be recognized I suggest you visit the Canada Reads website and submit it for your own recommendation for the region of Ontario.
I would recommend this book to anyone who has enjoyed reading the Harry Potter series. While that might seem a bit of a leap, one of the most beloved components to Harry Potter is the wonder that is inspired by the imagination of an entirely different world within our world. Here you find that same wonder by experiencing New York City as seen by squirrels- and it is a completely different world.
I cannot stress enough the enjoyment I recieved reading about Patch's adventures and seeing the world through a new set of eyes. What an imagination Jon Evans has! And the plot will keep you riveted. This book lacks nothing. I loved this book, in the end; it is exactly what its subtitle says. I couldn't put it down. Although I thought in the beginning the morality lessons were a bit heavy-handed Kingdom of Madness, dangers of pollution, etc. After the first hundred pages or so, I stopped noticing the things that had earlier broken my suspension of disbelief.
I wish that a few things had been more fleshed out -- the details of the squirrel kingdoms, for example -- but a I'm a world-building addict and b I understand the POV limitations as well as the fact that not EVERYONE would want an page treatise on the world Evans created.
This is an absolutely charming tale and has really all the aspects of a great bedtime story, except for the part where you'll stay up all night just to read one It's hard to believe Evans couldn't find a publisher for this book -- it's such a well-written and engrossing story. But because it was so different and not easily placed into any genre, a well-established author couldn't sell this book. The story follows Patch, a squirrel of Central Park, on his quest to return home, win a war, save his home, and rescue his mother.
What a scrappy little thing! Along the way, he makes some unconventional friends who all have their role to play in Patch's ultimate success.
So this is the story of a young squirrel who goes on the best adventure EVER! Patch is transported all over New York it seems meeting unforgettable friends and terrible foes. I really enjoy seeing the world from a squirrel's prospective. One of the best parts is figuring out the things he describes because of course he does not know the human names.
Heroic to the end this tale has captured my heart. Fell in Love. Wanted to hold the book close after I finished it. The characters stole my heart. If you are in love with New York City and revere wildlife, get wrapped up in adventure and are enamored of brave heroes with big hearts, you won't want to miss this one.
Brilliantly written. Took me away in that I-totally-forgot-where-I-was way that fabulous prose does. The vocabulary was simple which fitted with the feel of a children's story and allowed you to read without it being taxing. In most instances I was able to tell easily what the squirrel was describing, but in some cases I did struggle, though this made no difference to my ability to follow the story.
Reminiscent of Watership Down, though perhaps just because of the animal theme — I found it a little more farfetched due the apparent invincibility of certain squirrels and the slightly more fanciful animals involved though I liked the epilogue at the end explaining this and reinforcing the feasibility.
This is a wonderfully imaginative, entertaining, heart-warming, engrossing and thrilling read that follows Patch a squirrel of the Centre Kingdom as he battles against the army of rats, crows and the many other creatures found in the five boroughs of New York to protect his homeland and his family and friends.
This does have some morales woven into the story but so do all of the traditional fairytales we are told as children and this definitely fits into that genre although this is definitely one for the adults. Evans has created a world that is realistic and believable that just sucks you in until the very last page and even then it keeps a little piece of you there I am never going to look at my local wildlife the same way again.
Beasts of New York by Jon Evans. A violent, epic, action-packed urban quest full of very eccentric, often hilarious, extremely dangerous characters who also happen to be animals — the wildlife of New York City, to be exact. Want to Read. Shelving menu.
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