PRIDE OF LIONS

LEJONFLOCK – PRIDE OF LIONS

By Linda Jones

“I didn’t know what revenge was before I met Bunny. I didn’t even think I could get angry. I wasn’t a person who got angry, even though I should.
Now I chased them. Now I tore at their hoods. Now I held down their kicking legs.
I was a wild dog, a vittra, I wanted to see the blood pour.
Afterwards we ran with our arms to the sky. I didn’t know what it meant to be free but that’s how I felt. Free.”

VERA, JASSE AND Minna have been best friends for years, but when they start seventh grade, everything changes. On the first day of school, they see some older girls leaning against the wall, wearing Dr. Martens and bored looks. It’s not long before they reach out to Jasse, the cool one. The girls call themselves Bunny and Bunny is out to get revenge. On guys who call girls whore and behave like pigs, without any consequences. And they want Jasse to join them. In a desperate attempt not to get left behind Vera also joins their new group.

THE FIRST REVENGE takes place in the forest. An attack on a carefully selected guy. Dressed in dark clothes and with their scarves pulled up to their eyes, they become a pack. Afterwards, it doesn’t feel so good. Or does it? Vera isn’t sure.

DURING THE FALL, Vera and Jasse drift further and further away from Minna. She knows nothing about the meetings, the evenings, the forest. Or so they think. In the middle of everything, Vera meets a guy, Isak. He is the first and the greatest. But Bunny spares no one.

PRIDE OF LIONS is a captivating young adult novel that raises questions about revenge, guilt and responsibility. Award-winning Linda Jones writes with absolute clarity about loneliness, vulnerability, friendship and the dangers of being young.