The full review directly from Serious Reading is here. Leaving Shangrila is written by the author Isabelle Gecils who grew up in Shangrila, and her story is about her struggle to transform her life for the better and escape from terrible circumstances. In the book, Isabelle takes the reader to the absorbing world of Shangrila, a forest in Brazil which is beautiful and complicated at the same time. The characters of the book (both good and evil) are intriguing. All of them, from her stepfather to