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medium-paced
I think this suffered for me because I read it at the same time as Survivors Club: The True Story of a Very Young Prisoner of Auschwitz. It's an interesting story, and well written. But it's also about people working together to save horses. While the soldiers and people in the history were brave, I just had trouble mustering up much sympathy for the horses' plight. This isn't to say the rescue wasn't worth it, or that the horses weren't national treasures deserving of safety. But as a reader who just read about Jewish families and children being tortured and starved and killed, I had trouble switching gears to horses that are described repeatedly as "pampered" and the Nazi regime that was sheltering them for breeding purposes. Obviously, that's like comparing apples to oranges, but it meant that I didn't connect with this story the same way I did with Letts' earlier book.