Review: The beast had overcome him. He and it  became one. He is Umptyholi, a beast in a man's flesh...
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 03 15, 2014
The kind of book that once you are pulled in there is no return until you finish it even tho the violence and language continues to escalate until the very close. You can pretty much ignore the romance angle, but I was a bit overwhelmed with the brutality, hand-hacking, f-bombs and the like and was glad it was only a work of fiction with some facts woven in. I was flirting with a 4-star review until Chapter 26  pages 264, 266, and 267 which are in need of heavy rewrites as it is constantly confusing Vusi ( a 12-year old boy) with Jabu (a much older Zulu warrior). Have to say it was an entertaining action book tho extremely violent.