Lionboy: The Truth

by Zizou Corder

Book Overview

The final book in the adventure-filled Lionboy trilogy

After months of searching, not to mention leading a pride of escaped circus lions through Europe and all the way back to Africa, Catspeaker Charlie Ashanti has finally been reunited with his parents--and a long-lost relative with a huge secret to reveal. But their family reunion doesn't last long. Kidnapped and thrown in a boat, Charlie finds himself alone and bound for who knows...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0142407054
• ISBN13: 9780142407059
• Release Date: October 2006
• Publisher: Puffin Books
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.2" x 7.7"
• Age Range: 8 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 3 to 7

Customer Reviews

Pretty good

Right after he saved his parents, Charlie Ahsanti is kidnapped and taken away! Being the third book in the Lion Boy series, this book is where Charlie is kidnapped away from his parents. His parents were just kidnapped away from him, meaning that his parents weren't going to take any chances. They made him stay in their hotel room and not come out. Charlie can speak to cats, so he was itching to hear some news about the kidnappers and his enemies. When his parents went out to the bank, Charlie didn't waste any time to go to the docks and search for his cat-friend Sergei. As he walked along to the beach, suddenly a sack was pulled over him and he was picked up. From the sound of the voice, Charlie knew it was Rafi, his old enemy who had tried to kidnap him before. Fortunately, Sergei was there with his little chameleon friend who knew many different languages. Quickly, Sergei told the chameleon to tell Claudio (Also Charlie's friend) to tell Charlie's parents that he's been kidnapped. Then he jumped onto the ship with Charlie and his kidnappers. Claudio rushed back told Charlie's parents and rushed back to his boss King Borris (The king of Poland). Charlie's parents rushed to the docks, got a solar powered ship, and followed Charlie's ship. A few minutes later, Claudio and King Borris arrived who also got, a ship, but this time followed Charlie's parent's ship. Charlie's ship was headed for the Corporacy headquarters, in San Antonio, Texas. The Corporacy is an evil company that takes all the gifted people in the world, and keeps them, even animals. In Charlie's case they wanted his cat speaking gift. To make a long story short, everyone arrived there, and Charlie's Dad got a job in the Corporacy pretending he came back because he agreed with their methods (In recent books, he and his wife were captured but escaped). He got close to Charlie and they made plans to crash the Corporacy. First they disconnected all the weapons, then the computers. By the time the security reached them, they couldn't shoot or do anything about him. This was a fantastic futuristic book that many other people would also enjoy. This book was very distressing. Not in a bad way, but it does make you kind of angry and stressed. First Charlie's parents are kidnapped, so he rescues them. Then he gets kidnapped, and is taken away. And for a long part of the book, Charlie's not able to do anything because the Corporacy is so secured. This book was very interesting. It was cool to hear about the solar powered ships and stuff like that. And because it was in the future, there was a lot more high tech stuff. On the Corporacy campus people had little chips in their ears so that the boss could hear everything going on around them. Or the cell phones that Charlie and his parents carried around for most of the book. If they needed to charge, Charlie just had to set them in the sun, they were solar powered! Even though this book was very, very good, it went very slow. For instance, h

Lionboy- An excellent, and unique adventure!

This book belongs to my group of books that are my Top 10. Charlie Ashanti is the main character in the trilogy. He's your normal everyday London kid. NOT! First off, his mum is a scientist, his dad is a HUGE African guy, -Sorry if that offended anyone- and oh, did I leave something out? YES! Charlie is a Catspeaker! This only makes the book more exciting. Somehow he manages to befriend some lions, make almost everybody on a floating circus mad at him and still have a shave-headed young lunatic with a slobbering dog hot on his trail! Amazing, isn't it? Oh, well. If you like wacky adventure, this is your trilogy! Personally, I enjoyed it thoroughly.......I LOVE IT.

Suspensful from Beginning to End

"LionBoy: The Chase" is the best book i've read since the first "LionBoy". I'm dead serious. I'm seventeen years old and this is the first book that has ever made me cry. There is so much Charlie Ashanti goes through to protect his Friends, the lions, and to find his parents that it almost seems real. This book follows Charlie on his continuing adventure picking up from where it left him in the first book. Charlie finds himself traveling across The Alps with six Lions; "surviving a shipwreck, escaping from a Venetian palazzo and helping a revolution, rescuing lions from a snowstorm, traveling the sea and making difficult decisions." Ha, that was actually a quote from the book. I can't steal Zizou Corder's work. I respect them too much. Plus I don't want to go to jail. The ending was the most difficult part to read. I almost cried again when I read the three most horrible words in the world, "to be continued..." Now I feel relieved though knowing that I get to read another fantastic book by Zizou Corder. I can't wait until "LionBoy: The truth". Until then I guess I'll just read the first two books in the "LionBoy" trilogy again and again and again. That's how good they are! Then when I'm done with the third book, I can read all three again. Then maybe one more time. Please folks, read this book. But don't forget the first "LionBoy". I demand you read it first. This really is the best trilogy ever written! But don't take my word for it, go read it yourself!

A HUGE step up from the First Book!

The second Lionboy book from the trilogy, Lionboy: The Chase, I have to say was a major step up from the first book, Lionboy. The dialogue was smoother, the plot was much more interesting and held my attention much better, and the characters are even more memorable. My new favorite character has to be Sergei, the rangy North English feline who has a very peculiar accent and very funny, dry humor. I don't like to give much away on the plot of books, but here it goes. The only reason that I didn't give this book five stars is that in the beginning, when Charlie is trapped in the Palazzo Bulgaria, this whole segment of the book and meeting the Bulgarian King and Edward seems quite pointless and doesn't further the plot. But, after this rough segment of the book, you finally find out what allergenies are and what Primo the mysterious cat is there for. My only nag is that most of the time in Venice (from the reader's point of view) seemed completely pointless in furthering the plot. Now, on to the ending. At first for the ending, I was almost screaming no because it was only the 2nd book in the trilogy and how could it have such a happy, kiddish ending where everything turns out great. Well, to my happiness, it doesn't! The last paragraph is the most tantalizing thing that Zizou Corder has offered in this book other than those cruel, last three words ; to be continued ... I cannot wait for the 3rd book in this rising series!

Finally, a rival to Harry Potter...

I have lost count of the number of times I've read that a new book is "the new Harry Potter", yet I never really found the claim to be true. Here, finally, is a book which promises to deliver the same exuberant love of detail, imagination, adventure and character development which set Harry Potter apart from any children's book written at that time.This dynamic writing duo of mother and daughter have drawn on their own multi-racial family experience to give us a hero of enormous appeal, interest and truthfulness. Charlie is a boy any child would like to be, for a day! He can talk to lions and is on a quest to rescue his brilliant scientist parents from exploitative businessmen who want to get their cure for asthma so they can make tons of money.It is set in an alternative near future in a Europe where cars are banned because they've had such a bad effect on the environment. Fish, and fishing boats, have returned to the Thames in London. A wonderful ship called the Circe is a traveling circus, where Charlie frees the lions and begins a trip on the Orient Express to Venice, where he will be the guest of a king. What's not to like?Buy this book! I've never written a review before, but was compelled to do it for this one. You'll love this book and I already can't wait for the next one!