Dark Horse

I really enjoyed reading this book. I love stories about horses and them communicating with humans. The book was a bit predictable and it could have used a little more romance, but it was great.

Dark Horse is on par with early Anne McCaffrey and Mercedes Lackey stories, and contains many of the elemtnts that made both the Valdemar and Pern series popular. Magical black horses choose and accompany "good" mages, protecting them from evil magic and acting as advisor and friend.Dark Horse is the story of a young girl who is orphaned when her entire tribe is killed by a rival tribe that is led by an evil mage. She rescues and is rescued by a Hunnuli, a giant protector-horse, and is adopted by another tribe. When she learns that she, too is a mage (though a good one) she risks losing her life and her love because of the gifts she was born with...I am disappointed that after only five books that this series has come to an early and undeserved demise.

This was the first of Mary H. Herbert's work that I read, and I loved it! Her discription of emotion and the world around her characters draw you into the book like nobody's business.

Mary Herbert has a way of drawing you into her plot. She makes the characters real and alive. They have real problems and find real solutions(as real as they can get in fantasy) She deserves and gets five stars from me! Her work is excellent.

I need this book in hard back. The cover is falling off! I have also read Lightning's Daughter and City of the Sorcerers. The former was great, too, but the latter commited the almost inexcusable crime of skipping many years of happenings. But the first two are near perfect!