Review: Great read
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 01 31, 2013
I have only read books by Astrid Amara that have fantasy themes in them and I'm not a great fan of realism in literature or of the detective plot in general. This book, on the other hand, has very realistic setting, events and characters together with a quite good detective story (which kind of has a spoiler or two and I was able to guess what had happened to the horse quite early, but then the author made me doubt my guess masterfully though if it was correct). And despite of me being totally not into the genre I enjoyed the book immensely.The book has great true to life descriptions of horses and the work they require which I also enjoyed greatly since I love horses. Though this may be a drawback for people who don't like them for some reason or are indifferent to them.Another plus for me was the fact that the most part of the book the relationship between the main characters was so realistically tricky. It disappoints me when it all goes smoothly from the very beginning. But then again some people don't like slow development.