Review: The Trouble with Horses is…
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 07 14, 2014
… that they can surprise you. Or at least this book did. I’m not the target audience of this book. I’m admittedly more of a George R. R. Martin guy, or a Stephen King guy, or even a Terry Brooks guy. That’s the stuff I like to read. So when I was given a review copy of this book and told to just be honest about what I thought of it, I sort of figured it might be a form of torture.It wasn’t.I’ve never read Pride or Prejudice, so I came into this story with no expectations. I quickly learned what type of person Elizabeth was. I learned the kind of man her father was. And I learned about the world in which the characters exist in a natural way. It wasn’t force fed to me as some sort of primer on Jane Austen.I think that’s saying something. I never felt lost or like I wasn’t in the know. I actually found myself bothered by people interrupting me and when I got to the end I was pretty surprised to discover that I was actually disappointed that it was over. I did not expect that at all.The writing was great. The characters were great. The story never felt rushed despite the fact that it was a novella. For me, I thought the story was well executed. I enjoyed it. And that’s the mark of a good book, in my opinion.