Stacy Gregg
Autore di The Princess and the Foal
Sull'Autore
Stacy Gregg is the author of The Girl Who Rode the Wind and The Island of Lost Horses, which made the New Zealand Best Seller List in 2015. She will be featured at the annual Storylines Festival of New Zealand Children's Writers and Illustrators 2015. (Bowker Author Biography)
Serie
Opere di Stacy Gregg
Etichette
Informazioni generali
- Data di nascita
- 1968-07-23
- Sesso
- female
- Nazionalità
- New Zealand
- Luogo di nascita
- Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- Luogo di residenza
- Ponsonby, Auckland, New Zealand
- Istruzione
- Ngaruawahia High School
King's College, Auckland, New Zealand - Attività lavorative
- fashion editor
children's book author - Organizzazioni
- SPCA Horse Welfare Auxiliary (board member)
Utenti
Recensioni
Liste
Premi e riconoscimenti
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 39
- Utenti
- 770
- Popolarità
- #33,051
- Voto
- 4.0
- Recensioni
- 16
- ISBN
- 161
- Lingue
- 4
Trigger warnings: Near-death experiences, blood depiction, death of a mother, grief and loss depiction, storms, contagion, divorce
Score: Seven points out of ten.
Note that I bought this book, and now I own it. This review can also be found on The StoryGraph.
7/10, after reading a book which is the same genre as this one I cracked into this one after buying this one and then just forgetting about it for a few months but now I finally read this and honestly I kind of enjoyed this but again this was a light read which didn't leave me with anything much and it could have been improved in some aspects to make it better than it was. Where do I begin? It starts with the main character Beatriz Ortega or Beatriz for short and she lives with her divorced mother in a houseboat in the Bahamas of all places only because her mother is a marine biologist and she's researching something. The book mainly revolves around a place called Great Abaco and everything looks fine at first until after Beatriz was swimming and landed on the island she discovered two critical plot points, one there was a shack alongside some rare horses with another major character called Annie and two after that event she discovers a centuries old diary and that's where it got intriguing to say the least. The book now has another point of view from Felipa set in 1493 out of all periods making the entirety of it non-linear as with other books like this it felt jarring at first mainly because I felt like I was reading two books but eventually, I got used to it and as I was reading these stories I noticed several things. One I liked Felipa's story better since it was set in a historical setting and two I didn't get Beatriz's character since all she did was be defiant and disobedient to her mother only for the former to be proven right when a storm hit and Beatriz's advice turned out to be correct? Seems far-fetched. Felipa's story soon wraps up as the caravel she was on sank and she almost died until Cara saved her however if it weren't for the word galloped I would've thought that that character was a human and not a horse, that being said Felipa soon had to leave Cara behind after almost a year but then the book cuts to present day where Beatriz puts her diary alongside Felipa's ending this on a high note. Oh did I mention the book was told in diary style? It's more character-driven at the sacrifice of details. Well. Can't have everything I suppose.… (altro)