Review: Interesting Novel But Not Without Flaws
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 09 10, 2013
Ginny comes back to England from being an assistant horse trainer in South Africa, when her father has a heart attack. She's agreed to take over his stables at Ravenhill. Things go okay at first, but she discovers one of her owners cheating, and he pulls his horse away. Then all her hopes rests with Ravenhill's horses, especially two-year old Caspian. To complicate matters, the neighboring trainer and Ginny are at odds with each other from the start, but he's so handsome she fights an attraction by pushing harder. She's sure he's untrustworthy. When he proves again and again that he's honest and has her best interests at heart, she's unsure what to do.I liked the story presented here and enjoyed the horse racing setting. There were a few grammatical errors, like "between Julien and I." It talked about how tall Julien was but then said Ginny's chin came to his shoulder. At first I thought Ginny was awfully self-centered, but this seemed to get better as the novel progressed. Julien was also too aggressive and at times man-handled Ginny, which was definitely not endearing. The amount of cursing stood out, and the book would have been much better if Ginny had never slept with Mark, if perhaps she'd felt something was not right and left after the show. The ending was creatively done, but it would have been better with a marriage proposal.