rebelswin 's review for:

Black Beauty by Anna Sewell

4.0

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I was looking for a quick break from some of my other books and I decided to read this "childhood classic" that I missed. (I was never much of a horse person.) Wow. This book is way darker than expected. Now, I had heard going into it that the book wasn't actually written as a children's book, so I knew it would be serious, but some of the scenes were still so dark. I had considered recommending my wife read it, since she loves animals, but really I don't think she would actually enjoy it. I was very interested to see what was commonplace behavior of horses, and very sad. Quite the reflection on the coarser side of human nature.