Science Fiction/Fantasy
300 pages / 532 KB
5 Stars
I bought, and read, Jaguar many years ago, probably around
1990 when it first came out. I loved it, lost it, but never forgot it. So, I
recently bought another copy, and read it again for the first time.
While I did not forget the book, or the basic premise, I did
forget a lot of the story, and enjoyed reading it again. Mr. Ransom is also a
poet of some renown, and the poetry he so loves, come through in his prose.
There were times when I stopped, and savored a sentence just for the feel of it
in my mouth as I read it aloud.
Great literature? Probably not, but a heckuva good read! Mr.
Ransom is a great teller of stories.
There are four main characters with a couple of pretty important
supporting characters. The four main ones are children who have been abused in
one form or another during their lives, a boy and girl on this side of the
veil, and a boy and girl on the other.
They meet through dreams, become friends, and together,
fight the Jaguar, who would destroy them all. The fight is, literally, a fight
to the death—and a fight to save their worlds and their sanity.
The topics of dreaming, of abuse, of parallel worlds are
come to play.
I enjoyed this book the first time I read it and if
possible, I enjoyed it even more this second time through. Heartily recommend
Jaguar for a good read.
