A Lion Among Men
- 368
- Pages
- about 7 h
- Reading time
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Our view
“A Lion Among Men” turns Gregory Maguire’s “The Wicked Years” towards humour and adventure, with the Cowardly Lion at its centre. Brrr is still haunted by his past, and his uncertain search for a place in the world gives the novel its emotional weight. Some readers who found the earlier volumes weighed down by lofty exposition are glad to find little of it here. It reads best after “Son of a Witch”.
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About the book
A Lion Among Men is a dark fantasy novel by American writer Gregory Maguire and the third installment in The Wicked Years series, set roughly eight years after Son of a Witch (2005). It was released in the United Kingdom on October 2, 2008, in the United States on October 8, and in the rest of Europe on October 14, 2008.
Reading order · The Wicked Years
Full order & progress →- WickedStart here
–Not ranked yet - Son of a Witch
7.57.5 / 10 - A Lion Among MenThis book
7.67.6 / 10 - Out of Oz
–Not ranked yet
Where the score comes from
The sources average 6.6 across 59 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 29% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Fantasy average of 8.0. That is how 7.6 comes out.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hardcover | 6.6 | 59 | 100% |
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How long is A Lion Among Men?
It has 368 pages — shorter than 85% of the ranked books in Fantasy.
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