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Before We Die Young
Coming of Age: Check!
Diverse Characters: Check!
Non-Stop Action & Adventure: Check!
Urban Fantasy & African Mysticism: Check!
Award-winning Series: Check!
Two more years of high school, then Jon plans to make his fortune in banking and the law, while Luna expects to teach at her orphan Mission. Different upbringings. Different cultures. Destined never to meet.
But when evil sweeps across the African Savanna, shattering their lives, they are thrown together and forced into life-defining choices: Love or revenge? Trust the real or the magical? Kill or be killed?
And the story of those choices still echoes across the Great Plains of Africa today.
Completely unique, completely creative, and completely enthralling’ / Readers’ Favorite 5-Star Review
Diverse Characters: Check!
Non-Stop Action & Adventure: Check!
Urban Fantasy & African Mysticism: Check!
Award-winning Series: Check!
Two more years of high school, then Jon plans to make his fortune in banking and the law, while Luna expects to teach at her orphan Mission. Different upbringings. Different cultures. Destined never to meet.
But when evil sweeps across the African Savanna, shattering their lives, they are thrown together and forced into life-defining choices: Love or revenge? Trust the real or the magical? Kill or be killed?
And the story of those choices still echoes across the Great Plains of Africa today.
Completely unique, completely creative, and completely enthralling’ / Readers’ Favorite 5-Star Review
281 pages, ebook
Published July 16, 2017
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July 30, 2017
I received a free ARC and voluntarily reviewed it.
Interwoven stories set in Africa - a young rhino's mother is slaughtered by poachers, a young leader of poachers trying to save his brother who is dying of AIDS by attacking a mission where he believes he will find medicines, a young man and his sister whose parents are killed by poachers (to stop their interference with the poachers), who then try to save their ranch home from foreclosure. The interlinked stories go on and on. Two pair of brother/sister siblings go out for revenge -- and their story and the stories of the hunted animals they meet change everything.
This is an amazing, heart-tugging adventure. I look forward to reading more of this series.
Interwoven stories set in Africa - a young rhino's mother is slaughtered by poachers, a young leader of poachers trying to save his brother who is dying of AIDS by attacking a mission where he believes he will find medicines, a young man and his sister whose parents are killed by poachers (to stop their interference with the poachers), who then try to save their ranch home from foreclosure. The interlinked stories go on and on. Two pair of brother/sister siblings go out for revenge -- and their story and the stories of the hunted animals they meet change everything.
This is an amazing, heart-tugging adventure. I look forward to reading more of this series.
August 7, 2017
I was given this book free as an ARC reader. Before We Die Young is an African saying for when the "shit" hits the fan. It's one of those books with so much emotion in them that the reader feels a part of the story. This story involves illegal hunting and gangs that spring up following the money. Four young teens will do all they can to stop the poachers. It was a very good story, hard to put down, that gives hope for tomorrow.
November 22, 2017
Lots of drama, action, romance, adventure, magic, rape and murder. Young adults are forced to fight for their land and lives in these three stories. Jon and Michelle's parents were killed and they go to avenge their parents death and on their journey they meet Luna and Ngombe. Luna is magical and can talk to animals. More people come into their lives as they all seem to be intertwined together. These young adults travel all over to fight those that are hurting their friends and their countrymen. There is a rollercoaster full of emotions when you read these stories. You are rooting for the good guys and wanting them to kill all the bad guys. I voluntarily reviewed these books.
September 2, 2017
Touching and sad
Such an inspirational story but so sad. I had trouble reading it just because I know it is so true to life. Poachers are destroying so many of our wildlife, it's a tragic tale. How is there so much evil in people? Wonderfully written, but a hard topic to deal with.
Such an inspirational story but so sad. I had trouble reading it just because I know it is so true to life. Poachers are destroying so many of our wildlife, it's a tragic tale. How is there so much evil in people? Wonderfully written, but a hard topic to deal with.
September 5, 2017
A credible read
I thoroughly enjoyed this book and found it a quick and easy read. The characters were colorful and believable. My one objection was to the sex scene. I found it to be clumsy and unnecessary to the story. I will look at others like this, should they come to my notice.
I thoroughly enjoyed this book and found it a quick and easy read. The characters were colorful and believable. My one objection was to the sex scene. I found it to be clumsy and unnecessary to the story. I will look at others like this, should they come to my notice.
October 8, 2017
Before we die
I personally had a hard time starting to read this book. It did not flow very easily and seemed to jump from one place to another. I had to go back several times to see who was who. But once you figured it out the story was good
I personally had a hard time starting to read this book. It did not flow very easily and seemed to jump from one place to another. I had to go back several times to see who was who. But once you figured it out the story was good
October 10, 2017
DNF just didn't care enough. Overly complex with characters I couldn't learn to love
February 3, 2016
In the aftermath of cruel violence by a group of poachers, an unexpected friendship arises between humans and animals. All of them were orphaned by the actions of the poachers. They set out to seek revenge but find that mutual understanding is more important. Luna, one of the humans has a special gift.
The novel takes place on the savanne on the border of (a fictitious) Kenia and Tanzania. The violence in the book is often explicit. There are also moments of fun. Especially the interaction between the animals and humans is heartwarming.
The story is fast-paced. It sucks you in and you keep on reading.
I couldn’t find any info about the author L.T. Quartermaine. It could be an alias. Allen Quartermain is of course the lead character in King Solomon’s Mines and other novels by H. Rider Haggard. Quartermain is a big game hunter and trader in southern Africa. The novel concerns poaching and trading in endangered animals: rhinoceros horns and elephant trunks.
The story is continued in a second book - No Less a Hero - which takes place in Asia near the border between China and Vietnam. Focus in the second book is human trafficking.
The novel takes place on the savanne on the border of (a fictitious) Kenia and Tanzania. The violence in the book is often explicit. There are also moments of fun. Especially the interaction between the animals and humans is heartwarming.
The story is fast-paced. It sucks you in and you keep on reading.
I couldn’t find any info about the author L.T. Quartermaine. It could be an alias. Allen Quartermain is of course the lead character in King Solomon’s Mines and other novels by H. Rider Haggard. Quartermain is a big game hunter and trader in southern Africa. The novel concerns poaching and trading in endangered animals: rhinoceros horns and elephant trunks.
The story is continued in a second book - No Less a Hero - which takes place in Asia near the border between China and Vietnam. Focus in the second book is human trafficking.
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