Title: Arrows of the Queen
Product review: The young misfit Talia finds a home, a milk-white steed, and magical powers.This is uninspired YA fare, wish fulfillment at its lamest. Magical blue-eyed white horses; endless blather about self-esteem and "caring"; a dull plot with massive holes (why can't a Queen fire her own daughter's dry-nurse?). The only hint of something better comes in the stories the kids learning to be Heralds tell about the dark fates of their elders, but that's not enough to carry the book. It's sentimental tripe.The idea of the Heralds is cool, except that we never see them do any Heralding in this book, and the Herald name is misleading because they don't do, well, heraldry, but it's an interesting concept that perhaps the author developed better in another text.Anne McCaffrey's Dragonsong trilogy is a far better written coming of age fantasy.
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