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River Of Lost Bears (2013)

by Erin Hunter(Favorite Author)

4.28 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

0062202995 (ISBN13: 9780062202994)

languge

English

genre

Fantasy

publisher

HarperCollins

series

Seekers: Return to the Wild

review 1: Seekers - Return to the Wild: River of Lost Bears (Seeker Bears Book 9) Summary: Now that Kallik and Yakone have decided to join Toklo and Lusa on the rest of their journey home, the four bears head toward warmer territories. Spring is coming, and Toklo and Lusa are overjoyed to be away from the ice, surrounded by green forests and flowing rivers once again. But the forest brings unique challenges for the polar bears, Kallik and Yakone. As they struggle to continue on, they know that each step is taking them farther from the ice. Have they made a mistake, straying from their natural home? Soon Toklo also grows desperate to leave the struggles of their journey behind. As the group pushes toward the mountains where brown bears roam, Toklo must decide whether to see the quest... more through to the end . . . or to start a new life on his ownMY OPINIONAs the traveling bears make their way along the Big River on their journey to the mountains where they will find Toklo's home, they encounter Hakan, a horrible brute of a black bear who is always bullying his sister, Chenoa. Toklo and the other know they must help Chenoa learn to stand up against her brother, and yet Toklo is afraid to help her, worried that she will die too, like his brother Tobi and friend Ujurak. As Kallik and Yakone find themselves at odds with each other, Lusa struggles to travel with bad injuries. But when one bear dies and another is injured, the others have to deal with a dangerous foe - a pack of hungry coyotes who seem to have no dear of bears...Quote: "They're hunters. Which means they'll have firesticks."
review 2: I didn’t really like this book because the pace was very slow and the tone was extremely depressing. It lagged in many places, and it mainly circulated around death. When Toklo, Yakone, Kallik, and Lusa had first run into Hakan and Chenoa, I thought it was bizarre how cheerful and happy Toklo was, nearing his home, and Yakone was so grumpy and rude away from his home environment that I thought they had swapped personalities. But then Toklo got into that fight with Hakan and it saddened him to grouchiness again, while Yakone suddenly perked up. However, the light atmosphere didn’t last long. Lusa was attacked by wolverines and had nasty bites that got infected and would have made her extremely ill if it weren’t for Chenoa, whom Toklo went back to recruit for their little traveling pack with Lusa’s pleas. Then Chenoa showed Toklo the flat-faces (us humans) were cutting down trees, and Chenoa died by falling off a waterfall. A flat-face cub (human child) nearly drowned in a river but was saved by Toklo, even though Lusa was nearly crushed by a couple of humans river-rafting. Lusa became snappy and irritating after Chenoa’s death, making me like her mopey, weakling self much better. Then Yakone threatened to leave Kallik because he never thought of Toklo and Lusa as family, and shortly afterward, his foot was caught in a metal trap, destroying one of his paws and gravely injuring him to the point of critical blood loss. Kallik, Lusa, and Toklo tried to help him, but Toklo wanted to keep moving because coyotes were closing in on them, hungry to eat Yakone after he died. Toklo, Lusa, and Kallik managed to scare the coyotes away by using Yakone as bait and attacking them unexpectedly, but they were only left alone for a short time before the coyotes returned. In the end, the coyotes were still tailing them, Yakone was still dying, and all four of them jumped on a firesnake (train) to get Toklo’s home quicker. less

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