Fierce Kingdom is awesome, and if you're familiar with my reviews you know I rarely call a book "awesome." It drew me through the pages, and when I got to the last page, holy heck. I've cried at books before, but this is the first time I've ugly-cried. 
 The whole book was just so real and vivid and it didn't let me fall into the "good guys, bad guys" dichotomy, which would have been very comforting. 
 I'm going to keep this mini-review obtuse because I don't want to reveal too much, but I'll say that I do wonder if I would have reacted so strongly before I had kids...and if I weren't the main character's age and if I didn't go to zoos all over the United States and so have a clear mental picture of just how this might happen in real life. Too much to relate to. 
 This would make a great movie, but I really hope they don't make one out if it, even though that's probably not fair to Gin Phillips.