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Original Title:	The Mark of the Horse Lord
ISBN:	1932425624 (ISBN13: 9781932425628)
Edition Language:	English
Literary Awards:	Phoenix Award (Children's Literature Association) (1985)

The Mark of the Horse Lord

Rosemary Sutcliff

Paperback | Pages: 289 pages

Rating: 4.16 | 785 Users | 94 Reviews

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Haven't read a Sutcliff? Quit horsing around and get with the program. Her enthusiasts (almost cult-like) say she's one of the best YA historical fiction writers ever. All I can say is, "Sure looks like a book for adults to me!" No, no. Get your mind out of the gutter. This does not mean the book is rife with rape, pillaging, and gore. It's clean. But the writing! I'm sorry, but this lady did not write like any YA fare I'm familiar with "these days." A real "writer's writers," she goes for deeper descriptions, more complex sentences, and all manner of historically-accurate terminology (bothy? breeks?) that will leave you scratching your 21st-century head.

Anyway, all you need know is that it is a "gladiator-to-riches" story in which Phaedrus is plucked from the Corstopitum and cast in the look-alike role of Horse Lord -- or King of the Dalraidians. The real king was blinded by an evil (Disneyeque) Queen who cackles for us now and again and is marvelously slippery in her escapes. A dangerous mission? Uh, yeah, and Phaedrus learns the hard way.

Reluctant reading teens will be drawn by the fine cover (now that's marketing) but lost in the writing (at least after the fight-to-the-death gladiator scene in Ch. 1). Better to share this with more advanced readers and fans of first-century British history (their numbers are legion, I'm sure!).

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Title	:	The Mark of the Horse Lord
Author	:	Rosemary Sutcliff
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 289 pages
Published	:	March 1st 2006 by Front Street (first published 1965)
Categories	:	Historical. Historical Fiction. Fiction. Young Adult

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I'm not quite sure what I think of this one.I really, really liked the opening scene, describing the end of Phaedrus's career as a gladiator. That could have been a good short story in itself. But I liked it so much that it took me some time to adjust to the different setting of the rest of the story.I really liked how becoming the Horse Lord is a good career transition for an ex-gladiator, and how Phaedrus's gladiatorial skills are useful to him as the Horse Lord.I liked how Phaedrus feels bad

If I were sent to a deserted island with as many books as there are fingers on my right hand, this would be one of them. I found this book in its original edition in a small town library over twenty years ago and have sought it out in every library in every town I've been in since. Its that kind of story. If the heart of a good story is the soul-journey taken by the main character, then this book deserves a place in the canon of great literature because Phaedros' journey is truly epic, starting

Just to make things clear at this point: there are no limits to how much I adore Rosemary Sutcliff. I have yet to read a book by her I've disliked, and this one's no exception. That said, I can see why some people hate it (I know my mum would; our tase in books is *very* different) - the weird, inexplicable bonds Phaedrus feels with Midir, Conory and Murna would usually annoy me too, because I'm cynical like that, but in Sutcliff's work, they do tend to fit into the half-supernatural world she

Reading Gwyneth Jones put me in mind of Rosemary Sutcliff, and as I'm off to Argyll on holiday soon I thought I would re-read The Mark of the Horse Lord, which is set in Argyll. Unlike most of Sutcliff's novels set in Roman Britain, Phaedrus, the protagonist of The Mark of the Horse Lord, isn't a Roman soldier; instead, he's a half-British ex-gladiator, son of a Greek wine merchant and a slave woman, who lived his whole life as a slave until being freed after winning a fight in the arena. By

Interesting change from Sutcliff's other Roman Britain books in that it focuses on conflicts between British tribes outside of Roman-occupied territory. But it feels like it's all war and warriors - too many battle scenes, not enough world- and character-building. The battle lines are also too clear-cut, and most of the enemies too faceless, or caricatures.

The Prisoner of Zenda in 3rd century Dal Riata with some Robert Graves nonsense thrown in

As I said in my review of Frontier Wolf, I read these two books back-to-back, and the combined effect was devastating. In some sense, they are both about decisions that make a man who he is; and these decisions are often forced by circumstances, with a bad choice and a worse choice.At the very beginning of this book, Red Phaedrus, an Arena gladiator, must kill his closest friend in order to survive. That should give you an idea of what sort of things are at stake in this book! As always with