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Title: Saddle Up!
Review: The Mount is easily one of the best novels I've read this year. Charley, the novel's narrator, is a fascinating and wonderfully realized character who continues to deepen and grow more complex as his understanding of the world changes. The heart of the novel is in Charley's changing relationships: with his father, with his host, Little Master, with Lily, his first love, and finally, with his own sense of self. This is a heartfelt, warm, and very funny book, and I found it leaving an unexpected impression long after I had finished it. Like Charley, we all face a world with competing allegiances--one in which we all struggle to understand the ways in which we're bound, and the ways in which we're free.
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