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A review by aotora
Bambi's Children: The Story of a Forest Family by Felix Salten
4.0
I finally got around to reading the sequel and I have very mixed feelings about this book.
On the one hand- it's an all right book about nature and growing up but it seems milder and watered down compared to the first one.
I really didn't like Faline in this. She comes off as weirdly rude and toxic character.
I also liked that in the first book humans were present but they were always lurking in the background- they were just always presented as a danger- He with a thunder stick that can kill you if you are not careful. In this book they seem much more human and less scary because we learn more about them - we don't know their names but we still know that one is a forest keeper that takes home injured animals and nurses them back to help and that he feeds them during the winter. We also had poachers and a young spoiled brat that loved hunting and didn't really respect adults or nature and he paid by being attacked by Bambi when he wanted to shoot up his family.
At least that part was somewhat satisfying.
This book seems toned down quite a bit. Whilst you had a lot of buck fighting and gore in general in Bambi, this one doesn't really have that many dark parts. Some characters get shot but it's not even remotely as dark as Gobo's death from the first one or a few scenes of intense fighting or killing from the first one.
I did like Bambi in this though. He was still a distant father like all the other fathers - but he was still there when his children or his herd needed him - I especially love the scenes when he comes to Gurri when she is taken by the forest keeper after she gets injured by a fox and the scene where he saves Boso- he is probably the best character in this entire series.
Overall, it's an allright book and an allright sequel but not even remotely as good as Bambi was because it lacks certain charm that that book has.
On the one hand- it's an all right book about nature and growing up but it seems milder and watered down compared to the first one.
I really didn't like Faline in this. She comes off as weirdly rude and toxic character.
I also liked that in the first book humans were present but they were always lurking in the background- they were just always presented as a danger- He with a thunder stick that can kill you if you are not careful. In this book they seem much more human and less scary because we learn more about them - we don't know their names but we still know that one is a forest keeper that takes home injured animals and nurses them back to help and that he feeds them during the winter. We also had poachers and a young spoiled brat that loved hunting and didn't really respect adults or nature and he paid by being attacked by Bambi when he wanted to shoot up his family.
At least that part was somewhat satisfying.
This book seems toned down quite a bit. Whilst you had a lot of buck fighting and gore in general in Bambi, this one doesn't really have that many dark parts. Some characters get shot but it's not even remotely as dark as Gobo's death from the first one or a few scenes of intense fighting or killing from the first one.
I did like Bambi in this though. He was still a distant father like all the other fathers - but he was still there when his children or his herd needed him - I especially love the scenes when he comes to Gurri when she is taken by the forest keeper after she gets injured by a fox and the scene where he saves Boso- he is probably the best character in this entire series.
Overall, it's an allright book and an allright sequel but not even remotely as good as Bambi was because it lacks certain charm that that book has.