The main character of this book is a little chinchilla named Leela. Even though she is a little animal, her dreams are big. Leela’s daily routine circles around her cage, the apartment and her owner, Sarah. One of the weekends when Sarah took Leela to her friend’s birthday party, Leela’s world has changed forever. After interacting with different animals and getting the chance to experience the big world outside the cage in a small apartment, Leela was determined. From that day on she had only one dream, its to be free. To be a free animal in the wild with many other chinchillas where she belongs, the nature called her.
The questions are; how can a domestic chinchilla could possibly survive in the wild? And how would she get there in the first place?
This story is a beautiful allegory that mirrors our human nature. Leela’s adventures tell us that anything is possible and will leave any reader very inspired. One lucky and ambitious chinchilla managed to travel huge distances and overcome predators, simply because she didn’t want to give up on her dream despite how tiny she is and the fact that all the odds are against her.
The main conclusion is that the sky is the limit and we always need to follow ours dreams.
My questions were “Why?” and “WTF?”
Oh I ****ing hate the “anything is possible (if you just try hard enough/put your mind to it” BS.
No. It. Isn’t.
I hate more the idiotic bloody idea that “hey, yeah, it’s okay, domestic animals can survive happily in the wild!” This is the sort of blatant stupidity that leads to people abandoning cats, dogs, horses (yes, horses), etc. STUPID, STUPID plotline.
True, that too.
And, assuming she loves and takes good care of Leela, it’s also a big F.U. to poor Sarah!
(1) If you have to tell people that your story is an allegory, I don’t think you wrote a very good allegory.
(2) For the love of Pete, pick a tense and stick with it. Preferably for the entire blurb, but if you can’t manage that, see if you can manage to keep the same tense for an entire sentence.
Let’s feed Leela to Wolfie. He would probably appreciate a little furry snack. 🙂
I would dearly love to know where this takes place. Because unless it’s in the South American Andes, Leela is not going to find other chinchillas running around in the wild. And if it’s someplace in normal USA where temps go over 90 degrees in the summer, she will literally die of heatstroke before a predator ever gets her.
Re-reading the blurb, it almost looks like Leela is actually traveling to South America. So that’s… special.
I found the book on Amazon, and the writer is apparently ESL. But all that means is that he needs some kind of proofreader, not that we should give him a pass.
How can a domestic reader could possibly survive reading this book?
If all the writing is that jumbled, I expect the chinchilla was just as confused as the writer.