{"id":8008,"date":"2012-05-11T11:43:59","date_gmt":"2012-05-11T15:43:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thegreathorse.com\/?p=8008"},"modified":"2018-11-24T13:18:33","modified_gmt":"2018-11-24T17:18:33","slug":"review-the-golden-spark-great-epic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/2012\/05\/review-the-golden-spark-great-epic\/","title":{"rendered":"Ramblings of a Coffee-Addicted Writer: The Golden Spark is a “Great Epic!”"},"content":{"rendered":"

The following is an excerpt from the new review of The Golden Spark<\/em><\/strong><\/a> by Billy Burgess of the book blog, Ramblings of a Coffee-Addicted Writer<\/em><\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Ramblings of a Coffee-Addicted Writer | Billy Burgess<\/a><\/h3>\n

The Legend of the Great Horse<\/strong> trilogy is unlike any other horse series written for young adults. Just like book one, the author has gone to great lengths to add historical accuracies to this fantasy tale. Young readers will find the time traveling horse to be interesting, but there is so much more to young Meagan’s quest. You will learn about the hardships that horses went through in each period that Meagan visits. In addition, you will learn fun fact about historical figures like Louis XIV and Hernan Cortes.<\/p>\n

There are some scenes of violence in The Golden Spark especially during the Spaniards’ battle with the Aztecs, that some horse lovers may not care for, but as I said, the author is going for historical accuracies.<\/p>\n

I would have to say my favorite part of the book was the amazing descriptions of the foxhunt during Meagan’s visit to England. Both fantasy and history readers will enjoy reading about The Great Horse. I recommend it to everyone.<\/p>\n

» Read full Review<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\"graphicThe Golden Spark<\/em><\/strong><\/a> is the 2nd book of The Legend of the Great Horse<\/b> trilogy<\/em>, an award winning time-travel adventure through history\u2014on horseback! The story follows the journey of a modern horsewoman lost in the distant past.<\/p>\n

The trilogy books have won multiple national awards, including the 2012 Written Arts Award<\/b> for The Golden Spark<\/em><\/b> in Science Fiction\/Fantasy. Book I of the trilogy, Eclipsed by Shadow<\/em><\/b>, won the 2009 Eric Hoffer Award<\/b> for best Young Adult Fiction, and the 2010 Mom\u2019s Choice Award<\/b> for best family-friendly Young Adult Fantasy.<\/p>\n

Further information about this unique ‘creative non-fiction’ novel can be found at  TheGreatHorse.com<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

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The Legend of the Great Horse trilogy is unlike any other horse series written for young adults. Just like book one, the author has gone to great lengths to add historical accuracies to this fantasy tale. Young readers will find the time traveling horse to be interesting, but there is so much more to young Meagan\u2019s quest.—Billy Burgess, Ramblings of a Coffee-Addicted Writer<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":249,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[59,253],"tags":[118,355,82,16,62,40,28,84,397,271,352,72],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8008"}],"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\/249"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8008"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8008\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15397,"href":"https:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8008\/revisions\/15397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}