Heart of a Jaguar

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Summary: Heart of a Jaguar review by a Rapine expert
Review: The book heart of a Jaguar is really weird. It's about a boy named Balam; he lives in a villiage near Chichen Itza. There was a terriable drought. The people in Balam's villiage has to please the god with sacrifices inorder to get rain.
It has a lot of violence thorough out the book.

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Summary: Heart of a Jaguar Satisfying but Lacking
Review: The book Heart of a Jaguar was a unique book, but it left something to be desired. The author did a good job of getting the ideas and feelings across, but his method could be thought of as slightly disturbing by some readers. There is a fair amount of violence but like it or not, it is needed to make the book work smoothly.

Also, the author leaves the main issue in the book unsolved with the ending. The plot was fairly predictable, but the ending was not really a satisfactory conclusion because the books main problem wasn't really answered. It was a decent book, but if there were an epilogue to just say what happened it would have been a lot better and also if the plot weren't as predictable.

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Summary: Heart of a Jaguar - cool or fool?
Review: The book Heart of a Jaguar was remarkable, chilling, and fascinating. It really teaches a lot about the Mayas, while giving you a compelling read. It has a surprise ending, (...). Although the book is an excellent read, it also makes you cry and have a reason to be scared. Also, if you haven’t read anything about the Mayas, you may be very grossed out.
This book contains many of the rituals the Mayas did, and it really makes you feel like you’re right there. If you wish for a nice, sweet novel for reading all curled up in your bed, this is not your book. If you wish for a story that will make you cry for your mommy, and have nightmares if you read it at night, this is the book for you!

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Summary: YAYA
Review: The Heart of a Jaguar was a pretty o.k. novel with inaproprite parts. It tells all out about the Mayan civilization.

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Summary: Heart of a Jaguar
Review: The Heart of the Jaguar was a very graphic novel with many gruesome and sometimes racy parts. Otherwise it was very realistic and gave you and omnipresent view of what it was really like in the Mayan culture. I like the plot a lot, and it hooked me and kept me wanting to read it more and more. The story was somewhat sad, when people were killed and or just died. I enjoyed this book.

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Summary: Heart of a Jaguar review
Review: The plot brought down the book, but overall the book was good. Many people think the blood was not necessary, but without it the book would not have been the same. The book was exciting and suspenseful. The plot made the book worse than it could have been, because it was dull until the end of the book. Overall this book was pretty good, but could have been better.

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Summary: A very 'interesting' book
Review: This book was a good book to read if you had extra time on your hands. It presents violence in an un-violent format. Young readers will not like this book. It might be a little too educational for recreational use.

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Summary: Heart Of A Jaguar
Review: This book was a well written for young people who are in 5th or 6th grade. The author, Marc Talbert, clearly wrote how it would be like in the daily life of a Mayan person. Although the book was a little bit bloody, it portrayed how it is in real life, as though you were actually ripping the heart out of a jaguar. The story was very sad and sometimes heartbreaking, but it showed what would happen if you were a Mayan.

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Summary: Too Gruesome
Review: This book was an... interesting view into a proposed Mayan village, and the author used too many gross parts and too many adult analogies, as this is classified as a "children's book." This book may be historically correct, but it should NOT be classified for children.