Chapter by Chapter features me reading one chapter of the selected book at the time and reviewing it as if I were reviewing an episode of a TV show or an issue of a comic. There will be spoilers if you haven’t read to the point I have, and if you’ve read further I ask that you don’t spoil anything further into the book. Think of it as read-along book club.
I understand why the chapters are so short. This is from a kids’ book club, it’s a young reader book, and thus has shorter chapters for quick reading. But why does this need THREE chapters for the epilogue? How much stuff did Farley want to get into this ending that needed three chapters? Well, it’s time to find out because I’m doing all three together to finish out this book.
It’s not that it’s a bad book, and when I was younger and had yet to form reading preferences I might have enjoyed this more, or at least if I was into horses, which I’m not. They tried putting me on a pony once as a kid and I panicked. I don’t remember if it was being off the ground that high, worried that the horse would zoom off even though the trainer was there the whole time, or what happened, and I’ve never ridden one since. Odd because I had a rocking horse as a kid that used springs so the pony was probably safer. But I’ll save the rest for my final review Sunday at The Clutter Reports. Let’s take this a chapter at a time.
