I finished The Horse Whisperer. I really enjoyed re-reading this story, but in the second reading I came away with a feeling that the whole story seemed to end before Tom and Annie consummate their love. Once they’re together the whole thing is pretty anti-climactic. The love-making is clichéd, and you can see the end coming from a Montana-mile away. The most important character in the story, Grace, gets short shrift, and to kind of make up for it, I suppose, Evans turns her into a female version of Tom. This is an amazing transformation for a fifteen-year old who has suffered unbelievable physical and emotional trauma. Even Pilgrim, Graces’ badly maimed and brutalized horse, is miraculously cured and becomes himself again, although with a few scars that make him even more handsome than he was before.
This is a book to read once, in my opinion. A great summer or Christmas break read — you’ll cry, and then you’ll want to run out and fall in love with a cowboy and buy a horse.
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