The Council of Animals The Council of Animals

The Council of Animals

A Novel

    • 3.2 • 6 Ratings
    • $11.99
    • $11.99

Publisher Description

From national bestselling author Nick McDonell, The Council of Animals is a captivating fable for humans of all ages—dreamers and cynics alike—who believe (if nothing else) in the power of timeless storytelling.

“‘Now,’ continued the cat, ‘there is nothing more difficult than changing an animal’s mind. But I will say, in case I can change yours: humans are more useful to us outside our bellies than in.’”

Perhaps.

After The Calamity, the animals thought the humans had managed to do themselves in. But, it turns out, a few are cowering in makeshift villages. So the animals—among them a cat, a dog, a crow, a baboon, a horse, and a bear—have convened to debate whether to help the last human stragglers . . . or to eat them.

Rest assured, there is a happy ending. Sort of.

Featuring illustrations by Steven Tabbutt

GENRE
Fiction & Literature
RELEASED
2021
July 20
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
208
Pages
PUBLISHER
Henry Holt and Co.
SELLER
Macmillan
SIZE
21.6
MB

Customer Reviews

potterrocklmfao ,

For fans of Animal Farm

CW// violence, brief mention of child abuse

Thank you so much to the author for allowing me to read and review a copy of your book. I received this book through a giveaway from a Goodreads group that I’m in and I accessed it via NetGalley.

The Council of Animals follows a group of seven animals who are selected to vote on the matter of whether or not to eat the remaining humans on Earth. If you liked Animal Farm, I’m sure you will like this one, but I didn’t enjoy Animal Farm and so this one was not as enjoyable as I hoped it’d be.

I found this book to be rather dull and uninteresting. It didn’t hold my attention while I was reading it and I had a hard time getting invested in the story. The characters were either way too philosophical in their arguments or they were supposed to be funny but I found the “funny” parts to be a little over the top.

It definitely got slightly more interesting after the action started midway through this book, but I found that I was more interested in the setting than in the actual events occurring. I also found the narrator’s commentary and side tangents to be way too distracting and boring.

The only thing I really liked about this book was the artwork. I wasn’t expecting there to be artwork in this book, but it complimented the story really well and it looked very nice.

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