Kindle Daily Deal: Will it make me cry?

K.M. Grant's Blood Red Horse is $1.99 today, and I'm tempted to buy it, because—Crusades! King Richard! Saladin!—but I am, of course, concerned about THE HORSE THING.

So, those of you who've read it: should I take the plunge?

(And let's keep in mind that although I read I Rode a Horse of Milk-White Jade back in 2005, THE PAIN IS STILL ACUTELY... ER, PAINFUL.)