Review: Not That Great
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 06 3, 2014
The first fourth of this book was so repetitive that it was pretty boring.  It was about 2 adults thinking and acting like horny teenagers.  There’s only so many ways to describe horniness until it just becomes yawniness.  When at last Maggie and Ed get together, it’s like they wake up each day pulling petals off a daisy … Loves me, loves me not, etc.  They both waver back and forth between horny and satisfied for just about the rest of the book, leaving me as frustrated with them as they are with each other.As for the back story (and it is a back story since most of the book is about sexual tension), it’s a pretty weak one.  It’s supposedly about thoroughbred racing, but a thoroughbred is fine boned and lean, yet the cover picture appears to be a Friesian draft horse.  And the premise is that a widow with a 15-year-old daughter and a 10-year-old son can run a newly formed successful racing stable (all by themselves no less!) if they can just find a good trainer to teach them what to do.  Ed does teach them how to muck out stalls and bathe horses, and warns them to be careful around high-strung thoroughbreds, but that’s about all that’s covered in this book.  And when Ed encourages the building of an indoor arena for exercising race horses in bad weather, and also thinks about using the young race horses to give riding lessons to local children, it totally contradicts how much he really knows about horse racing.The book does give a pretty good description of small town life, EXCEPT for the totally insane person who wants to destroy Maggie’s enterprise.  It’s not that great a mystery.  If you want a book with lots of repetitive descriptions of sex and horniness, without that great a story, then this book is for you.  But I found it very disappointing.