What an outstanding find Rachael
Phillips is!" Fergus Wilson
Review: Anastasia and the Horses of Boughton Lodge
5 of 5 STARS
I recently had promotional
free days through Amazon’s KDP Select program, and while tweeting to spread the
word about my own books, I made the acquaintance of a very lovely author of
children’s literature, Rachael Phillips. I have an interest in this field with
ideas in the works, but Ms. Phillips’ series is geared toward a completely
different group and written in a way that had never occurred to me. It was
interesting enough to get this (ahem) middle-aged woman to take a look, so I
downloaded them and was pleasantly surprised.
Although I have not seen the
demographic for these books in more than thirty years, I was transported right
back to the days when I used to play at being a horse in the schoolyard. It is a
well crafted series that should appeal to ANY preteen girl, and Anastasia is the
perfect heroine for females in this age bracket. She is smart and intrepid and
loves animals of all kinds. She is unwitting royalty, which just adds to the
attraction (What little girl has never pretended to be a princess in disguise?)
and is on the case without delay in every situation. I like the fact that the
immediate mysteries of each instalment are wrapped up, but the ongoing puzzle of
who she is and why she needs to be protected keeps the reader interested. The
writing is not dumbed down at all, which I heartily appreciate and would have
benefited from when I was a girl. And there is even quite a bit of history
thrown in. Unfortunately I do not have a young girl with which to share this
lovely series, but I would recommend it to all of you who do.
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