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This was a very interesting and exciting book. I often times imagine myself as the main character and compare and contrast her to myself. Malora is a strong willed girl who will go so far as to sew her clothes to her body. I would never be able to do that to myself. She wrestles snakes and lions, when I can't even kill a spider with a shoe. Malora tries her best to be accepted among the Centaurs even though one of their laws prohibits hunting. If I were Malora, I most likely would have died alone and never meant Orion.


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Centauriad #1 Daughter of the Centaurs Kate Klimo Books Reviews

Daughter of the Centaurs was not what I was expecting, but Kate Klimo has made me a believer in centaurs and this futuristic world she's created. Malora is one of the People, possibly the last of the People since everyone she has ever known was killed by ferocious Leatherwings. In an attempt to save her from the same fate, Malora's mother had packed up her favorite horse, Sky, and sent her out into the plains. After some of years wandering around, surviving, growing her herd of horses, Malora comes into contact with the perfect beings centaurs. Half man, half horse. Orion vouches for Malora, considered to be an Otherian, and she's whisked into their home, Mount Kheiron. Though, there were certain aspects like the 14 edicts that Malora felt restricted her, she fit in well with the centaurs. I felt proud just to be reading her story, and that's how big a difference she made to the centaurs of Mount Kheiron. I actually got a little teary eyed towards the end!

Klimo introduces the centaur society with ease. From what I had heard about Daughter of the Centaurs before reading, I thought I would suffer from confusion or read too much going on at one time. Fortunately, my fears were unfounded because I had no trouble understanding and picturing this fantastical world Malora finds herself participating in. The plot is riddled with danger, fascinating events, and a culture very similar to our own but uniquely different. I thought it was so weird that the centaurs lived life like humans, with a few notable differences of course, but it was all new to Malora who lived primitively in her settlement in the mountains. The centaurs were led by Medon the Apex, who is then ruled by Lady Hylonome, Herself. If it weren't for the strict requirement to follow the Edicts, the separation of prosperous Highland centaurs from the Flatland centaurs, and the dissenting whispers of inequality and poor treatment from the Flatlanders, I would not have considered this story dystopian at all, just fantasy.

Malora was a character with character. She was strong and she knew how to take care of herself, and her horses. I loved the fact that she had such an affinity for horses. Maybe it was Klimo's style of writing, or personal experiences taken to write about these horses, but I was just so captured by the moments when Malora connected with her 'boys and girls'.

There's a bit of a history between centaurs and the People, and whatever other kinds of creatures may be lurking in the shadows of the story, and while Klimo does take a considerate amount of time to establish it I want to know more. Yes, you will find yourself asking many questions about where the centaurs, and even the Twani, originate from but that's the best part of reading Daughter of the Centaurs. It's only the beginning of the Centauriad series and there's opportunity to find out more in it's sequel, A Gathering of Wings!
The idea behind this book had such promise. Centaurs, the last human, leathery winged bat things. It all spells out excitement doesn't it?

It pains me to write a bad review, it does. But here it goes...

This story falls flat on its face. The writing is mostly poor. It doesn't flow well. There were some points of the book, but not until after the half way point where the author seemed to have found her flow, but they were few and far between. Sadly, this book probably also should have been written in the first person. I truely believe that changing the perspective that it was written in would have prevented much of the awkwardness in the writing.

The sense of time was also horrible. I wanted to more about Malora after she got out into the wilderness on her own, but nope. We get sprung forward a few years in the future bypassing any obvious hardships she had to have had. Then the awkward visions. Letting us view tidbits here and there of things. Tidbits of things we get to learn nothing more about! Let us not forget to mention the plot points that were introduced, but didn't go any where. I can only imagine how great the book would have been if it had followed some of those rather than the uninteresting one it did follow along.

Then there are the characters. Flat, flat, flat. The Centaurs are so ridiculously boring. Most of the characters are awkward. And yes, I understand Malora was supposed to have grown and changed over time, but really her character didn't seem to fit at all from the first half to the second. Then to make it worse, the author didn't really take time to take the reader through the transformation of Malora. You are just kind of there. I guess that could be associated with the horrid timeline following.

And please, I do not want to hear anymore of this book being a dystopian. A good dystopian is one where you can see how the world you are in today can become the world you are reading about. Yes, this world is supposed to be the one I am in, in the future. Filled with Centaurs and other exotic creatures. Too much fantasy is built in for this to be a good dystopian, so I really hope people stop trying to say that it is one.

Do I recommend this book? No. I do not.

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Very interesting read! Most people who love horses (like me),will enjoy this book.Also,I must say that even though this book isn't about dragons it reminded me of the Dragon riders of Pern series.Both series feature wonderful world building.
This was a very interesting and exciting book. I often times imagine myself as the main character and compare and contrast her to myself. Malora is a strong willed girl who will go so far as to sew her clothes to her body. I would never be able to do that to myself. She wrestles snakes and lions, when I can't even kill a spider with a shoe. Malora tries her best to be accepted among the Centaurs even though one of their laws prohibits hunting. If I were Malora, I most likely would have died alone and never meant Orion.