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A Lion Among Men
- The Wicked Years, Volume 3
- Narrated by: John McDonough
- Length: 12 hrs
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Publisher's Summary
While civil war looms in Oz, a tetchy oracle named Yackle prepares for death. Before her final hour, a figure known as Brrr - the Cowardly Lion - arrives searching for information about Elphaba Thropp, the Wicked Witch of the West.
Abandoned as a cub, his path from infancy is no Yellow Brick Road. In the wake of laws that oppress talking animals, he avoids a jail sentence by agreeing to serve as a lackey to the warmongering Emperor of Oz.
A Lion Among Men chronicles a battle of wits hastened by the Emerald City's approaching armies. Can those tarnished by infamy escape their sobriquets to claim their own histories, to live honorably within their own skins before they're skinned alive?
Gregory Maguire's new novel is written with the sympathy and power that have made his books contemporary classics.
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- Loretta.
- 18-02-2023
A Lion Among Men by Gregory Maguire
I have really enjoyed these books and I hope these are more to the series Thank you Gregory Maguire
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- Anonymous User
- 12-12-2018
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The 3rd book in the Wicked years series. Lion among men is an interesting story about espionage and the moral obligations thrust onto someone with little choice. The lion Brrr is on a constant search for who he is while the denizens of OZ are defining that for him. Alone in the world, his story is quite sad (not unlike every character in this series).
He finds himself in court and on parole on the proviso that he gains information on the whereabouts of the Grimmerie. This leads him to interview Yackle while the war between Munchkinland and the Emerald City rages.
Despite the book not being as action packed, it picks up at the end when everything starts coming together. I really enjoyed the last few chapters the most. The first part of the book was a mish mash of historic interviews from the lion and mother Yackle.
I'm glad I got through this one, now I can start the final novel!
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