![]() If the plotting stretches credibility, the eloquent prose compensates Syeira meets a litany of entertainingly odd travelers along the way, who relate their life stories to the heroine in conversational passages. After he leaves, Syeira discovers that Ran has taken two Arva colts, and in a rather unlikely move, the girl frees the Arva mare, and accompanies her to reclaim her progeny. Ran, "a great lord and a scourge," ruler of a neighboring kingdom, makes an annual visit to Haysele to take horses for his war efforts ("as long as Haysele provided Ran with superb horses and horse expertise, it remained free"). She is particularly fond of the Arva horses, famous for their aggressiveness. Young Syeira, the implied orphan, works in the stables for the king of Haysele, a land known for the quality of both its horses and their handlers. ![]() ![]() Horses take life as it comes," says the omniscient narrator of this elegantly written debut novel. "If you are unlucky enough to be an orphan, it helps to grow up among horses. ![]()
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