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The Horsegirl #3
The Stallion Queen
Finding refuge with her followers in the Saquave Wilderness after abandoning their homeland, Glennys reigns as the Stallion Queen, living in harmony with all creatures of the wild, until an unexpected stranger darkens her door. Original.
256 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published August 1, 1992
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December 14, 2020
This one yet again changed the focus of the series, from our main female horse queen we went to the son of the queen that was hidden during the beginning of the civil war...and he, Leon, is full grown so more than a decade has passed from the last book (2nd book of series). We also see the point of view of stallion queen Glennys's adopted daughter(?) Cameron. Cameron is shown to have horse sense too once she hits adulthood and she is revolted by it even though she grew up around glennys in the saquave desert where stallion queens are looked on with some awe but not the revulsion and fear Cameron shows.
A book named Stallion Queen barely had any stallion queen in it at all, and almost none of her thoughts at all. We see her settlement and reign of power through the eyes of Leon mostly. Leon was at least a smarter character than Glennys was at least, he is more knowledgeable and calculating. Cameron is headstrong and less smart than Glennys even, so she was a let down. Glennys's sister Deborah after all these years still resents Glennys and of course runs away back to the religious fanatics first chance she gets....which could not have really been her first chance in all these years...it doesn't end well for her but she got what she deserved in my opinion....especially knowing how much crazier they had become over the years in the snowy mountains around the saquave.
If I had to pick the best book of the 3 then it was the 1st one, because it was the one most true to a fantasy type of book set in a medieval type of period with a character learning of their powers. The 2nd book changed the world to a world on the cusp of industrialization and our main character into a whore/concubine that wants to be a ballerina on a dance stage of all things with loads of political intrigue and her powers hinted at great things that never happen but instead are used to help her get a backstage role for the dance company. Then book 3 becomes almost a western book with a man for the main character who has no powers at all but still is instrumental in helping both females who have powers finally finish off the crazy fanatics before he has to go wage his own wars to take back his kingdom from his conniving evil uncle....and the end of the book leaves us with a sad ending for our main character Glennys, being left as a shell of her former self after using too much saquave power in the final battle. I would pick book 2 as the book with the happiest ending of the 3, and it was still a good bit of a downer itself.
I don't regret the time I spent reading these, but I will never reread these so they cannot be 5 stars for me. The 2nd book was the biggest chore to read for me, I don't want to read of ballerina hopes in my fantasy books, or ballerinas concocting political intrigues just to move up in the world to signed contract concubines. The religious evil fanatics were a huge chore to have to read as well and huge portions of both book 2 and 3 revolved around them. This series was definitely different to any fantasy series I ever read, but with so much realism in it I couldn't call it enjoyable escapism. If you want a series to challenge your preconceived notions of how fantasy series go then this one you cannot guess where it will all go....but you will be left questioning whether the read was worth it in the end if you slogged through the slow unenjoyable parts like I did. It was a well written series and good enough for me to classify it as good books, but never a re-readable series since I cannot call it truly enjoyable overall.
A book named Stallion Queen barely had any stallion queen in it at all, and almost none of her thoughts at all. We see her settlement and reign of power through the eyes of Leon mostly. Leon was at least a smarter character than Glennys was at least, he is more knowledgeable and calculating. Cameron is headstrong and less smart than Glennys even, so she was a let down. Glennys's sister Deborah after all these years still resents Glennys and of course runs away back to the religious fanatics first chance she gets....which could not have really been her first chance in all these years...it doesn't end well for her but she got what she deserved in my opinion....especially knowing how much crazier they had become over the years in the snowy mountains around the saquave.
If I had to pick the best book of the 3 then it was the 1st one, because it was the one most true to a fantasy type of book set in a medieval type of period with a character learning of their powers. The 2nd book changed the world to a world on the cusp of industrialization and our main character into a whore/concubine that wants to be a ballerina on a dance stage of all things with loads of political intrigue and her powers hinted at great things that never happen but instead are used to help her get a backstage role for the dance company. Then book 3 becomes almost a western book with a man for the main character who has no powers at all but still is instrumental in helping both females who have powers finally finish off the crazy fanatics before he has to go wage his own wars to take back his kingdom from his conniving evil uncle....and the end of the book leaves us with a sad ending for our main character Glennys, being left as a shell of her former self after using too much saquave power in the final battle. I would pick book 2 as the book with the happiest ending of the 3, and it was still a good bit of a downer itself.
I don't regret the time I spent reading these, but I will never reread these so they cannot be 5 stars for me. The 2nd book was the biggest chore to read for me, I don't want to read of ballerina hopes in my fantasy books, or ballerinas concocting political intrigues just to move up in the world to signed contract concubines. The religious evil fanatics were a huge chore to have to read as well and huge portions of both book 2 and 3 revolved around them. This series was definitely different to any fantasy series I ever read, but with so much realism in it I couldn't call it enjoyable escapism. If you want a series to challenge your preconceived notions of how fantasy series go then this one you cannot guess where it will all go....but you will be left questioning whether the read was worth it in the end if you slogged through the slow unenjoyable parts like I did. It was a well written series and good enough for me to classify it as good books, but never a re-readable series since I cannot call it truly enjoyable overall.
February 14, 2016
Book three in The Horse Girl Saga. Glennys has moved again. In this new part of her world we meet the wilderness tribes, a young king to be, Glennys' adopted daughter, and the men who steal said daughters soul (among other things).
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