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Stardust Horses
It's a beautiful day when Kayla rides out into the woods on her horse Sami, leading her friend Micky's horse, Blue. Her plans to meet Micky for a ride are dashed when a violent storm crosses her path and she's knocked unconscious. And if the storm seemed like a nightmare, it's nothing compared to the reality that awaits her! Suddenly she's in a kingdom called Tagar, with a Prince name Mikal. And she can't just click her heels and go home. No, she's not going anywhere until she helps return all the animals to Tagor. They were spirited away by an evil wizard, and can only be returned with her help. Kayla and Mikal must defeat the wizard in a series of games eerily similar to her Pony Club games, and Sami, Blue and some mysterious Stardust Horses hold the clue to their success!
126 pages, Unknown Binding
First published January 1, 2011
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November 25, 2018
The Cover
Yay, Photoshop! I don't even have an opinion on this cover. It doesn't fit and yet it sort of does. Jennifer Bell would have created the most perfect cover art, but it would have been wasted on this book anyway, so let's just stick with what we have here.
The Background
Jenny Hughes is one of the PonyClub regulars. I really adore her older books but I'm not really into her newer novels, although there has been an exception. This one, unfortunately, was the weakest of her books I read so far.
The Story
In short, Kayla gets into a storm in the woods and is transported into a high fantasy parallel universe where she has to do Gymkhana games to defeat a wizard in order to find her way back home. Like ... what?! As much as I love both horses and high fantasy parallel universes, and horse novels that make use of parallel universes or time jumps, this novel just wasn't for me.
I didn't dislike it in the beginning though. However, the further the plot proceeded, the more annoyed I got. I would have enjoyed this so much more if Kayla hadn't pulled out a pony club game solution for every dangerous trap and the other issues were just charmed away. It would have been much more fun if the other tasks would have been something else. Like a treasure hunt with different tasks so that both Kayla and Mikal could have shone. The finale was equally disappointing. It's a MG book, so of course there couldn't be anything too graphic, but the solution felt so very rushed.
The Characters
I started out liking Kayla but then she unnerved me with her humour and her constant solutions like a terrible know-it-all. Mikal on the other hand was as flat as a pancake. He was constantly in Kayla's shadow, he didn't talk much, he didn't do much except for discovering the traps and complaining about them so that Kayla could come up with a plan. A little more balance between those two would have been nice.
Yay, Photoshop! I don't even have an opinion on this cover. It doesn't fit and yet it sort of does. Jennifer Bell would have created the most perfect cover art, but it would have been wasted on this book anyway, so let's just stick with what we have here.
The Background
Jenny Hughes is one of the PonyClub regulars. I really adore her older books but I'm not really into her newer novels, although there has been an exception. This one, unfortunately, was the weakest of her books I read so far.
The Story
In short, Kayla gets into a storm in the woods and is transported into a high fantasy parallel universe where she has to do Gymkhana games to defeat a wizard in order to find her way back home. Like ... what?! As much as I love both horses and high fantasy parallel universes, and horse novels that make use of parallel universes or time jumps, this novel just wasn't for me.
I didn't dislike it in the beginning though. However, the further the plot proceeded, the more annoyed I got. I would have enjoyed this so much more if Kayla hadn't pulled out a pony club game solution for every dangerous trap and the other issues were just charmed away. It would have been much more fun if the other tasks would have been something else. Like a treasure hunt with different tasks so that both Kayla and Mikal could have shone. The finale was equally disappointing. It's a MG book, so of course there couldn't be anything too graphic, but the solution felt so very rushed.
The Characters
I started out liking Kayla but then she unnerved me with her humour and her constant solutions like a terrible know-it-all. Mikal on the other hand was as flat as a pancake. He was constantly in Kayla's shadow, he didn't talk much, he didn't do much except for discovering the traps and complaining about them so that Kayla could come up with a plan. A little more balance between those two would have been nice.
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