#supernatural-elements

I have very mixed feelings.

On one hand, I really, really enjoyed this book. I also really liked how it was written; the language was easy and plain, but also playful and fun. I like the main characters (Jenny was a sweetheart, and Russell grew a ton on me!).

*spoilers ahead*

However, on the other hand, the talking horse… I thought at first that he was just a comping mechanism for Jenny. That he was an imaginary friend or just something that her mind had made to cope. But at the end of the book, it becomes quite the statement that he very much was not.

I mean, I guess you can interpret it however you want, but that scene (while very beautiful and sweet) made it kind of hard, for me, to see him as an imaginary friend or a hallucination.

Now, I don’t have a problem with Thomas himself, he seemed quite lovely actually. I just had hoped for an explanation. And not this sudden strike of… supernatural? Fantasy? I don’t even know, which I think is what bothers me.

Except for that, I found this book delightful!

Especially Russell and his wife-nickname; I found that absolutely adorable! Also I loved how they just adopted people and animals together right and left.

I didn’t really have a problem with the end, but it felt a little rushed, perhaps. At some point everything just seemed to happen very fast, and maybe that was the point, but then all of a sudden they were just explaining everything while also having everyone saying “obviously”…