Blood Red Horse
by K.M.Grant
I'm seriously conflicted about this one. I listened to it on CD but I think it needed to be read on paper. I can read faster than someone can talk, and the dragging dragging dragging parts would have made for quick reading. (My brother says I skim instead of read, but that's a lie!) Like many other YA novels I've read, there are too many passages of internal angst expressed as questions. Will I ever have a life? How can I stand this? Will I ever see home again?
So. It's a fabulous story--characters so real you can taste them--war and the holy crusades in all shades of living color--the perfect balance between imagery and action--
But don't give up halfway. I was tempted to and I'm glad I didn't. There are some gruesomely painful passages, but they--sadly--make the story real. People do learn from their mistakes. Well...some people learn from some of their mistakes. Any more would be telling.
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