Lilibet Bombshell's Reviews > Girls and Their Horses

There’s really no way Eliza Jane Brazier could’ve titled this book anything different, because Girls and Their Horses is the perfect title for this book and all it encompasses. It’s not only the present-day horse girls who the title applies to–it’s also the horse girls of the past and the horse girls of the future.

I seriously don’t think Eliza Jane Brazier can write a bad book. Her writing is just so freaking compelling, propulsive, and engaging. This story starts off slow and steady and just keeps building the story, narrative, relationships, suspense, rewards, consequences… It just keeps building and building everything up like a really good suspense novel does until a really well done turn that’s sublimely plotted.

I admire how well EJB writes characters. From the bottom to the top they’re all completely fleshed out and unique. No one gets left out in terms of having their own voice. In this book that’s especially important since the cast skews largely female and between teenage daughters and mothers. The dynamics there vary between mothers and daughters, sisters, friends, fathers and daughters, and boys and girls. For each dynamic and character there’s going to be a different push and pull. EJB is blessed in her talent to keep everything straight and consistent throughout the book.

I’m not saying the book is perfect, because it’s not. I found certain aspects of the book predictable. Not all of it. Not the most important part of the book. That kept me guessing all the way up until it was revealed. But some of the rest of the mysteries I could guess. That’s not entirely bad, though. Not when the book is this good. And it’s really good.

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File Under: 5 Star Review/Literary Fiction/Psychological Fiction/Suspense