War Horse by Michael Morpurgo

A bit of a change from my normal reading material but my Dad got if for me and I heard a lot about it with the film having been released so I thought I'd give it a go!

I wasn’t sure about the book at first, it is essentially a children’s book written in the voice of Joey – the horse. This of course makes it pretty clear that the horse must survive to the end of the book (otherwise he wouldn’t be there to tell the story) which unfortunately took a little bit of the tension out of the book. The other thing that I didn’t really enjoy about the way that this book was written is that it is very descriptive in ‘sing-song’ tone of voice which I found to be a little irritating as it took a lot of words to describe something quite small and not especially significant.

That being said, I did quite enjoy the story, looking at the war through a different perspective and focusing on the beautiful relationships that were formed as a result of this terrible war. Having read the book I am now quite interested to see how the story is portrayed in the new film adaptation, hopefully I won’t have to wait for too long to find out.

6/10