The War Horse - Michael Morpurgo

I read this one for book group here in the village, it's a kids book told from the point of view of the horse. *sigh* Well, I am not a huge fan of animal point of view stories as a rule, there are some I love, Black Beauty is iconic and wildly sentimental but still holds some power, Felidae is is silly but entertaining but the War Horse. Oh dear. Pretty early I on I had a thought along the lines of...if such and such happens I am not going to be surprised but I am going to be appalled. Needless to say that's exactly what happened.
It failed to get me choked up at the sentimental parts and the horse went on and on about how he'd find out soon enough how rare kind owners were yet all but one were much better owners than most and the only one that was bad, when he was a gun horse, wasthrough neglect rather than cruelty and the horses were no worse off than the men frankly.
Honestly? Not for me and there are definitely better kids books.
The rest of the book group liked it better though and are going to see the stage show, so maybe i'm just a miserable old witch.
The stage show is meant to be incredible.