I am an avid fan of Morgan Llywelyn's books, and I've not yet read one that
disappointed me. Her stories are exciting and her characters live and breathe
and truly draw you in. THE HORSE GODDESS is no exception. Still, there is
something missing from this novel that makes me rate it a step below works like
DRUIDS (the best!!) and BARD. It may be the odd rhythm of speech she gives the
Scythians, no matter what language they are supposed to be using. It may be the
one sidedness of the story; Llywelyn usually weaves several plots and points of
view into one grand tale, but in THE HORSE GODDESS, she sticks to a single
narrator's vision of a single chain of events. It leaves the story a little bit
flat in the literary sense, but no less exciting for all that. Like her other
books, I read THE HORSE GODDESS straight through in a day, carried away into an
adventurous past by Llywelyn's incredible talent.
