Diablo is the story of one young girl’s search and endeavour to own a pony – the perfect pony. Twelve year old Kim just loves horses. She is lucky enough to be leasing a pony named Blackie but in time his love of grass results in ill health and Blackie is returned to his owner.
Kim’s parents are no longer together. She lives with her mother and older – incredibly annoying – brother and her mother’s boyfriend, Alan. Kim is rapt when Alan concludes that they should buy her a pony. Although her mother protests the cost of purchasing one, Alan insists on doing it for Kim. What twelve year old girl would discourage that idea? And so Diablo is purchased.
Now perhaps the name in itself should have been a warning. But when Kim tries out this Shetland pony, he can do no wrong. It’s once they’ve brought him to the local stable to live that the problems start. Kim finds she has no control with Diablo on a lead and the idea of riding? Well you can forget that.
As Kim endeavours to train – or retrain – her pony through various means, the reader is taken on an amusing tale of discovery. Diablo is set on world domination and the dialogue between this determined pony and his new owner is rather amusing. Add in a trainer who insists on muscling horses around and then a Natural Horsemanship trainer who comes across as a hippy initially, and you’ve got an amusing story.
The usual dynamics of a painful teenage brother and dealing with a stepfather are thrown into the mix, too. Diablo takes the reader on a journey as Kim learns at a young age how to be the lead mare and to stick up for herself with her pony, around the stables and even at home. Diablo is bound to amuse children and adults alike.
Author: Fallacious Rose
Fiction – middle grade readers
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