Tiger Heart

More filters. Sort order. Start your review of Tiger Heart. Jun 21, Celia McMahon rated it liked it. On the surface, this is a story about a girl finding her true home.

But beneath that is an entire plot of almost indecipherable slang, terrifying scenes of glossed over violence and death, and a tiger who may or may not talk.

Thats still up for debate for me. Overall, I enjoyed the book but there was too much that did not fit for me to rate it higher.

Feb 05, Elvina Zafril rated it really liked it Shelves: pansing. This was a fun read. I didn't expect that I'm going to enjoy it.

I was moved after a few chapters and can't put it down. Fly is a brave girl and she reminds me of Lara Belacqua.

This story is full or adventures and quite an emotional one. Fly is a loveable child who wants to escape from the Black Bill who runs a group of street urchins.

When she sees the chance to escape, she took it and ended up landing in the tiger's cage. I was distracted when I started reading the book.

First of, because I This was a fun read. First of, because I don't read much middle grade books. But I started to like this book when the adventure begins.

It isn't just any tiger. Their bond is wonderful as well as with other animals. She made plans to free the creatures who were locked in the cages.

She promised the animals that she is going to free them. Can she fulfill her promise and get them home? This story really wasn't something that I thought I'm going to enjoy reading because I usually read other genres.

But this is something else and I'm glad I took my time to finish this book. Highly recommend! Thank you, Pansing for sending me a copy of Tiger Heart in return for an honest review.

This book is available at all good bookstores. She knew she had to let them all go. Because thats what it meant to be free. This story is about a girl, a chimney sweep who is too familiar with beatings and poverty.

One day she meets a caged tiger and promises to set him free. Fly and her Tiger go on an adventure, they encounter problems, face darkness and despair but Fly keeps on fighting to keep her promise.

Its also a story about man, and what greed can do. This book wasnt short on hateful characters and thats for sure. It had a bittersweet ending and overall I did enjoy this story.

It was an enjoyable story but definitely a lot to try and get my head around. View all 5 comments. Jan 07, Strawberry rated it it was amazing Shelves: fantasy , mg-children-s , historical-fiction.

Oh wow! This is such a lovely story and one Ive loved as much as the beautiful cover! Tiger Heart begins when chimney sweep Fly falls down into a cage which holds a tiger.

But Fly doesnt rush back up the chimney she came down from, because whats lurking at the top scares her more than the man-eating tiger in front of her.

She thinks the tiger is going to eat her, but when he licks her skin, and tastes some blood from a cut, he starts speaking and declares that shes royalty.

Fly doesnt know Oh wow! This is such a wonderfully magical story right from the beginning. The book is set in the past, with a victorian sort of feel, but with references to a King Billy the year is never really clear.

Having that past setting made the book a little tricky to get into at first, not because of the descriptions and action which felt very good and quite fast-paced, but because of the gutterling speech that Fly uses which sounds like a really old version of cockney.

It took me a few pages to get used to the way Fly and her friends speak, although I did try reading this without any references to any glossary.

The book is seperated into two parts, with the first being the larger section and set all in London. I loved the descriptions in a lot of this book, especially the description of the building and the sounds it was making, where Fly and the tiger first stayed overnight.

The second part of the book continues the adventure and I like the introduction to some new characters and more on all the animals. The way the animals form part of the story is lovely and really made me enjoy this all the more.

The whole time I was reading this book I felt compelled to continue the story and I loved the magical feel and adventure that the entire book has.

There will also be some lovely artwork in the book. There really was a tiger loose in London in the past! Sep 10, Maria rated it liked it. Fly had a simple plan to sweep through the chimney and ran away from the Black Bill but what she didn't expect was come face to face with a tiger.

And when Fly was trying to stall him and convince him not to eat her he bowed to her and call her princess.

Fly knows she is no princess but for the reason even unknown to her she promises Tiger to return him to his homeland. And thus begin a journey of adventure, action and to a land with cloud topped mountains.

And maybe, maybe Fly is actually a Fly had a simple plan to sweep through the chimney and ran away from the Black Bill but what she didn't expect was come face to face with a tiger.

And maybe, maybe Fly is actually a princess of a kingdom? Review- The first thing I would like to say about the book is it is not for children.

I know it suggests as a middle grade fantasy book but that is definitely not the case. Language is so hard and difficult that was for most part of the book I have to imagine and decipher words on my own.

I know there is a glossary at the end of the book but you can't skim to the end for every second word. Also the meaning should be at the start of the book as there is no indication of it being at the end.

I love the character of Fly. She is fearless, kind, loyal and even mature for her age. Even though she didn't knew that she is a princess she still vows to free all animals from their cage.

And she does everything in her power to be just when she reaches the kingdom. I love the element of talking animals and considering them as a citizen of the kingdom.

I think this is the most exciting part about the book being it a children's fantasy. It totally give you Narnia vibes.

The one thing I was expecting a lot was friendship between Fly and Tiger as it suggests form the blurb. But I was confused throughout the book about the intentions of Tiger.

Though he saves her and protects her throughout the journey I just felt that he didn't consider her as a friend.

In some places I felt it was too dark for a middle grade book. The pace of the story is quick and it makes you to finish it one go. But as you were expecting more in the second half the book ends.

Ending is quite rushed and left too many ambiguous loopholes. I feel overall the story has potential with the plot, characters and pace but for the major part language ruins the book and second reason is it didn't pay attention to the target audience i.

Jan 07, Rebecca Nilsson rated it really liked it. With her own special dialect and feisty personality - a girl that "ain't afeard of nothing" - the story brings you in and has you rooting for Fly and her "gutterling" friends as she finds out about her shrouded past and is forced to uncover it in order to outrun the new dangers that has entered into her life.

This is very much a story about a girl's independence, bravery, compassion and strength, but also about family ties - no matter if they are by blood or not, or even human.

If anything, I only wish that the story hadn't come to a somewhat quick ending. It felt slightly rushed and might've benefited from a bit more content in my opinion.

I would, however, still recommend it for the beautiful experience it offers. Because of the extensive use of Fly's many made up words accompanied by a dictionary at the end of the book!

But it is also the intriguingly imaginative language next to the story and characters that would be the aspect I'd highlight when promoting it to my KS3 students.

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