At first glance this might just look like your average Run-of-the-mill novel. However when one delves deeper into the thought provoking pages, it is impossible to deny Sylvia Scott Gibson's literary prowess and intellect.



The 2 months that I spent reading "Latawnya, the Naughty Horse, Learns to Say "No" to Drugs (Hardcover)" I couldn't put it down! The book is about the epic journey of a young mare named Latawnya and her coming to terms with the smoking of drugs and the drinking of alcohols. As she is in her downward spiral of self-satisfaction she is confronted by her 2 sisters, Daisy and Latoya that remind her that "smoking and drinking is not ok". However Latawnya is not fully convinced. It is not until Mother and Father Horse confront her that she begins to see the mistakes she has made.



Also at first glance it would be easy to write this off as being irrelevant as it deals solely on horses. This however is a clever trick used by the author to give us a inside look at the world of drugs and alcohol through a horses eye's. Only then do we realize that horse, Latawnya could be you or someone close to you.



Let us not forget that Father horse had a friend that "accidentally took an overdose", He did not intend to overdose but did so anyway and proceeded to die from it. He would never be alive again.



I am looking forward to the upcoming sequel "Latawnya Relapses and Sells Her Hooves to the Upper Darby Glue Factory; a Horses Tale" Due summer 2008 (supposedly). Sylvia S. Gibson is an idea machine, and as an idea machine she will change the way we look at ourselves and the world, through the horse oriented gospel that is Latawnya.