Rain Forest Rose

Phantom Stallion: Wild Horse Island #3

by Terri Farley

Darby wants to visit her great-grandmother, a mysterious healer who lives in the middle of the rain forest. But she's afraid of the dark woods—until she sees a beautiful, elusive pink roan mustang roaming the forest. When Darby finally braves the forest and meets her new neighbors, she uncovers a secret tragedy—one that led to a terrible fight between her two best friends. Can Darby and her great-grandmother mend a broken friendship? Or will the rain forest mustang save the day?

Genres: Horses, Middle Grade, Animals, Childrens, Contemporary, Fantasy, Fiction

224 pages, Paperback

First published October 1, 2007

About the author

Terri Farley is the best-selling author of books about the contemporary and historic West. Her PHANTOM STALLION series has sold over 2 million books world-wide and it relaunches with new art & content in March 2023.
Terri's most recent non-fiction book Wild at Heart: Mustangs and the Young People Fighting to
Save Them (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) is a Junior Library Guild selection; winner of the
Sterling North Heritage award for Excellence in Children's Literature.
Terri's only contemporary fantasy is SEVEN TEARS INTO THE SEA.
Terri is an advocate for the West's wild horses and for young people helping to make their voices heard.

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Reviews

[Katie · Rating 5 out of 5]

I never really got through this book completely but when I finally got into it, I couldn't put it down! Anyways, Darby is from Los Angelos, California, and her grandfather Jonah, owns a horse farm in Hawaii. She rescued a mustang from Nevada in the winter time, They shipped her to Hawaii to be worked with by Darby. When they set out on a 'bonding' adventure, They encounter so many diffrent things....Including finding a friends lost horse for over two years! The lost horse's name was Tango, the friend was named Megan, and her father Ben who was killed while riding Tango....(He was killed by a wild boar charging Tango) was a horse charmer, sort of like Darby is. A wild boar attacks Darby's camp and scares her mustang Hoku, who later bolts out the gate and drags Darby with her. Darby looses control of Hoku when they finally find Tango running in Black Lava's territory. Black Lava is a very pretty black stallion that runs part of Wild Horse Island. Hoku had trusted Darby so much, That when Darby wakes up from sliding down a hill and rolling into a mud pit, She awakens to find Hoku at the top of the hill looking at her as if asking her "Are you OK?" Hoku was rescued from a man named Shan Stonerow, he was so called 'training' her which in his case meant beating her to work. Hoku is very head-shy now.... Megan and Cade get into a fued over who's fault it was that Ben died in a horse back riding accident, and who's fault it was that Tango was lost in the first place. I can assure you I will be reading this book more than once, espicially when i get the two books before it.

[Marina · Rating 4 out of 5]

I give this book 3-3.5 stars. It was a sweet story. Wonderful horse facts and vivid imagery. I did feel it was slow paced so my attention was not 100% on the book. But because I love horses I will read this series anyway.
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Spoiler
Note to Self: Hawaii
Darby Carter(13yo,granddaughter,pal)&Hoku(sorrel filly,mustang),Navigator(gelding quarter horse), Jonah Kealoha(grandpa,son,bro,ranch owner,foster dad,55yo)&Kona(horse),Cade(15yo,cowboy,foster son, abuse survivor,pal)&Joker(appaloosa),Megan Kato(pal)&Tango(rose roan),Tutu Kealoha(great-grandmother, 75yo,herbalist,healer)&Prettypaint(Ellen's horse),Cathy Kato("aunt",mother,widow,40's,ranch cook and manager),Kit Ely(ranch foreman,bro,half Shoshone)&Conch(grulla gelding),Jake Ely(bro),[Ellen Kealoha Carter(her mom,35yo,actress,divorced,sis),Babette Kealoha (aunt,sis,Babe,resort owner),Samantha Forster(Sam,pal),Heather(pal).]

[Lynx · Rating 3 out of 5]

(Okay, so I'm just copy/pasting from my review of the other book...)This was a pretty good book for a junior level book. I preferred the first one to the subsequent ones - I sped-read through the first four, and found that they seemed too short, and could have been combined into one book. Vague sense of dissatisfaction about that. However, it was not written for my age level, and the fact that the books all mesh together so completely speaks well for the author's writing ability.

[Sarah · Rating 3 out of 5]

Rain Forest Rose is about how Darby and Megan stay a week in the middle of the rain forest with Darby's horse (Hoko.) They find Megan's lost horse (Tango.) On the way Darby and Megan meet Darby's great grandmother that lives nearby the place they are camping.

[Jessica · Rating 2 out of 5]

See the first book in the series for a full review.

[Avalon · Rating 2 out of 5]

Didn't really talk about horses. Just about people going down to the sea.

[Alyssa · Rating 1 out of 5]

I'm not really in to this book because it gets kinda boring but thats just me. If you like reading about horses and about this girl finding a herd of horses you will probally like this book.

[Twyla · Rating 5 out of 5]

My favourite part aws when everyone was safe from the boar.

[Jessica · Rating 3 out of 5]

3 ⭐️

[Anna Juline · Rating 3 out of 5]

I liked it, it is a good fast read, and I will continue to read the series.