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Dark Horse (TSR Books)

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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.

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.

Gabria, sole survivor of Clan Corin's massacre, must break her people's most sacred laws and customs to survive long enough to avenge her clan's murder.

Each encounter with potential friends and foes is a revelation about herself and them and the society they live in on the Dark Horse Plains, home to the Clans of Valorian.

Yet her first and most important ally is Nara, the huge Hunnuli mare, traditionally the uncorruptible mounts of great warriors and mages. Her friendship won through Gabria's acts of selfless courage and kindness, Nara's revelations and Gabria's deeds will rock Clan beliefs to their foundations and reshape their world... a tour-de-force.

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!

I read this book so often that the covers fell off it. It was only excelled by its exciting sequel, Lightenings Daughter. The only suggestion I could make was that Nara and Boreas could have been given more personality.

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.

this si an amazing book. if you like a bit of war, an amazing storyline a just a tiny bit of romance, you'll liove it. Unforunetly it is out of print now, but perhaps it can be reprinted for the next generation, I know it's worth it.

I have read many fantasy and sci-fiction books and the is probably one of the best, if not the best. You can feel and understand what the characters' feel. I loved this book!

This Book is one of the best I have read. But as a series this is the BEST fantasy series, I have ever read. I wish there were more!