{"id":2601,"date":"2010-06-21T13:44:50","date_gmt":"2010-06-21T17:44:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thegreathorse.com\/?p=2601"},"modified":"2015-07-22T16:02:20","modified_gmt":"2015-07-22T20:02:20","slug":"happy-summer-solstice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/2010\/06\/happy-summer-solstice\/","title":{"rendered":"Novel Addiction Review &#8211; &#038; Happy Summer Solstice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a descriptive new review of <em><strong>Eclipsed by Shadow<\/strong><\/em> posted by Morning Glow (aka Amanda), on <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/glowsnoveladdiction.blogspot.com\/2010\/06\/eclipsed-by-shadow-by-john-royce.html\">Novel Addiction:<br \/>\n<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>From the back of the book: \u00a0 <em>Eclipsed by Shadow<\/em> is the first book of an exciting new trilogy, <strong>The Legend of the Great Horse<\/strong>, a journey through the ages when horses were everyday companions in work, war, sport and spectacle. The story is told through the eyes of a young woman, a horse-crazy teenager traveling through time with a knowledge of 21st Century horsemanship as her only defense. &#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Well, wow, the back of the book really doesn&#8217;t do this series justice. It makes the whole story sound flippant and childish, even. But really, I found this book to be far more powerful than the blurb. Yes, we do follow a young girl (she&#8217;s 15 through most of the book), and yes, she does travel through time, but these aren&#8217;t easy things Meagan is dealing with. And despite the young age of the main character, I&#8217;m not sure I would give this book to a fifteen year old.. unless he or she was very mature. There are definitely some harsh moments in <em>Eclipsed by Shadow<\/em>. Not to give too much away, but death, rape, slavery, beatings, etc, are all issues Meagan has to see and live in fear of. All this lends to a very powerful and thrilling tale, definitely, but this book should definitely not be taken lightly.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/glowsnoveladdiction.blogspot.com\/2010\/06\/eclipsed-by-shadow-by-john-royce.html\">&lt; read the entire review online\u00a0 &#8230; &gt;<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Also: Happy Birthday, <em>Promise!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a descriptive new review of Eclipsed by Shadow posted by Morning Glow (aka Amanda), on Novel Addiction: From the back of the book: \u00a0 Eclipsed by Shadow is the first book of an exciting new trilogy, The Legend of the Great Horse, a journey through the ages when horses were everyday companions in work, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/2010\/06\/happy-summer-solstice\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Novel Addiction Review &#8211; &#038; Happy Summer Solstice&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[59],"tags":[70,32],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2601"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2601\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}