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The Leopard's Daughter
In an ancient Africa of verdant Sahara plains, warrior woman Jeneba Karamoke has grown up scorned by her people because her father was a leopard man. When she rescues a party of fellow warriors from cannibalistic monster half-men, she hopes it will finally win acceptance for her. But no...in order to prove she isn't lying about the vanished hero Tomo Silla's part in their capture by the half men she must make Tomo face the tribe. Can she find him, and then survive more monsters, foreign tribes, and a curse laid on a fabled city to bring him back alive?
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First published October 1, 1987
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Lee Killough
52 books15 followersLee Killough has been storytelling since the age of four or five, when she began making up her own bedtime stories. So when she discovered science fiction and mysteries about age eleven, she began writing her own science fiction and mysteries. Because her great fear was running out of these by reading everything her small hometown library had. It took her late husband Pat Killough, though, years later, to convince her to try selling her work. Her first published stories were science fiction and her short story, "Symphony For a Lost Traveler", earned a Hugo Award nomination in 1985.
She used to joke that she wrote SF because she dealt with non-humans every day...spending twenty-seven years as chief technologist in the Radiology Department at Kansas State University's Veterinary Medical Teaching Hospital before retiring to write full-time.
Because she loves both SF and mysteries and hated choose between the two genres, her work combines them. Except for one fantasy, The Leopard’s Daughter, most of her novels are mysteries with SF or fantasy elements...with a preference for supernatural detectives: vampire, werewolves, even a ghost. She has set her procedurals in the future, on alien words, and in the country of dark fantasy. Her best known detective is vampire cop Garreth Mikaelian, of Blood Hunt, Bloodlinks, and Blood Games. Five of her novels and a novella are now available as e-books and she is editing more to turn into e-books.
Lee makes her home in Manhattan, Kansas, with her book-dealer husband Denny Riordan, a spunky terrier mix, and a house crammed with books.
She used to joke that she wrote SF because she dealt with non-humans every day...spending twenty-seven years as chief technologist in the Radiology Department at Kansas State University's Veterinary Medical Teaching Hospital before retiring to write full-time.
Because she loves both SF and mysteries and hated choose between the two genres, her work combines them. Except for one fantasy, The Leopard’s Daughter, most of her novels are mysteries with SF or fantasy elements...with a preference for supernatural detectives: vampire, werewolves, even a ghost. She has set her procedurals in the future, on alien words, and in the country of dark fantasy. Her best known detective is vampire cop Garreth Mikaelian, of Blood Hunt, Bloodlinks, and Blood Games. Five of her novels and a novella are now available as e-books and she is editing more to turn into e-books.
Lee makes her home in Manhattan, Kansas, with her book-dealer husband Denny Riordan, a spunky terrier mix, and a house crammed with books.
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October 3, 2019
Fantastic and unusual novel
Love this book for several reasons
1. Uses African cultures and legends - the writer definitely did research. It was nice to read a book where magic and legends are real that wasn't based on European and North American legends.
2. Strong female protagonist - I loved her. She was strong and flawed and ambitious and loyal and conflicted and unsure and bold. She was beautifully written and her progress through the story is realistic and authentic and fun.
3. Great pacing - The author maintains tension and interest throughout the story.
4. The secondary characters are also interesting and well handled. I love her mother who is so strong and completely unapologetic for her choices even in the face of family disapproval.
My only complaint would be it has several grammatical and word errors but they're not too often and the characters and story are good enough that they didn't bother me too much.
Love this book for several reasons
1. Uses African cultures and legends - the writer definitely did research. It was nice to read a book where magic and legends are real that wasn't based on European and North American legends.
2. Strong female protagonist - I loved her. She was strong and flawed and ambitious and loyal and conflicted and unsure and bold. She was beautifully written and her progress through the story is realistic and authentic and fun.
3. Great pacing - The author maintains tension and interest throughout the story.
4. The secondary characters are also interesting and well handled. I love her mother who is so strong and completely unapologetic for her choices even in the face of family disapproval.
My only complaint would be it has several grammatical and word errors but they're not too often and the characters and story are good enough that they didn't bother me too much.
November 1, 2021
Very mixed for me. I would love to see more African fantasy. Animals, tribes, and locations are given distinct personalities that made the world feel big and rich. On the other hand there is a bit of dryness in the tone that makes the plot drag in places.
December 7, 2018
This book has so much more than you would think. Fantasy,horror and a very good moral to the story. I'll be looking for more books by Lee Killough.
August 13, 2022
Overall I enjoyed it. Though there was several too fast paced moments,like the final battle. But overall I enjoyed the story being told.
December 15, 2010
One of my favorite books by Lee.
abandoned
December 5, 20141989 grade X
Boring. (sorry)
Boring. (sorry)
Displaying 1 - 6 of 6 reviews