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Delightful Fantasy Nov 11, 2009
By Brian Groover
I loved the concept of a genetically-enhanced African Gray in Crighton's Next, even though it was taken to the point of comic absurdity. Little Birdies makes the concept far more believable. The characters are clearly parrots in their behavior, even though they are super-smart. As others have noted, Lewis clearly knows and loves parrots.
It is a fun story, with fun, believable characters, well-written and enjoyable.
 Gripping and suspenseful! Mar 20, 2010
By Lisa M. Divney
"Little Birdies!" by Anthony F. Lewis was a truly delightful read. The characters, human and avian alike, were well developed and piqued my interest throughout the story. This book was extremely well researched and thoroughly enjoyable.
A lifelong fan of the underdog, I was very pleased to see an ideal mix of ethics, compassion, and loyalty exhibited within the characters as they found themselves amidst questionable decisions made for all the right reasons.
As a resident of the Mid Hudson Valley, I found great enjoyment in following their adventures through my own backyard.
Put "Little Birdies!" on your reading list, and you'll never look at birds the same again!
Gripping and suspenseful! Mar 20, 2010
By Lisa M. Divney
"Little Birdies!" by Anthony F. Lewis was a truly delightful read. The characters, human and avian alike, were well developed and piqued my interest throughout the story. This book was extremely well researched and thoroughly enjoyable.
A lifelong fan of the underdog, I was very pleased to see an ideal mix of ethics, compassion, and loyalty exhibited within the characters as they found themselves amidst questionable decisions made for all the right reasons.
As a resident of the Mid Hudson Valley, I found great enjoyment in following their adventures through my own backyard.
Put "Little Birdies!" on your reading list, and you'll never look at birds the same again!
0 of 1 found the following review helpful:
 Big Problems Jan 26, 2012
By Noah Murphy
Little Birdies has some big problems.
For one thing, the book is way too long often spends tons of time going into minute details of geography or scientific concepts that are largely irrelevant.
Even more problematic, characters and subplots are started and dropped seemingly at random, as if the author started taking the story in one direction then decided to change direction and instead of deleting it, just makes them fizzle out. A good third of it at least could be slashed or trimmed down from the book with little consequence.
The books only saving grace would be that the main story line is pretty interesting, with mutant African Greys giving birth to dino-birds. But even this has some issues as the cannot make up its mind if these guys are supposed to be cute or terrifying. The books seems to say that they're both, and as a result, a lot of scenes, coupled with the books length, have less punch than they should.
For example, the climax is not suspenseful or exciting, in part because it takes too long, and second, there really wasn't any drama because the main characters, human or not, were never in any real danger.
A character introduced late to make it suspenseful ends up nothing more than a pointless plot device.
Beyond the narrative, there are problems. Narratives shifts can happen up to a dozen times or more in a single chapter with nothing more that a line space, there's no *** or --- or anything, so it can get very confusing.
The author inserts needless maps to show things I had no problem understanding. It seemed to be they were there just so the author could show how realistic he was to real geography.
In the end, Little Birdies simply doesn't know what it wants to be. It wants to science fiction, a monster story, a thriller, a drama and whole lot of other things and it simply bogs the story down.
For hardcore parrot lovers only.
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