Review: Comes at you like a hurricane!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 05 27, 2014
I have a weakness for any good books about animals but especially about horses but that being said… they have to be good.  “Ambition” is one of the good ones. The fact that I have been a horsewoman for most of my life and recognize when the language is true makes a lot of books not so good and others.. excellent but here, the characters and the story are both great. I admit that there were times when I wanted to reach into the pages of the book and “slap” Natalie’s main character, Jules. There are couple of things that I think should have been addressed such as why when Becky , Jules’s groom and riding student gets fed up and leaves, she never just faces her and asks her why? Jules also whines…  a lot.(Hence the imaginary slap) . Yes things were hard for her as a kid trying to become the rider she wanted to be but she has so far, done a decent job of it so quit already. I also love the horsey “characters”, Dynamo who actually belongs to her and her , she hopes he will become, claim to fame: Micky. Both thoroughbreds and both off the race track. In Micky, she really finds a mystery that for a long while defies an answer  making his training almost impossible .Enter Peter, well, yep, you can see how this  would happen but Jules fights the growing interest she has in him and he in her also because she doesn’t want any distractions and no male horse trainer trying to tell her what to do. It is an interesting read up to here but around this part of the book, Natalie puts the story into a full hands on gallop . Enter a new character, a hurricane with a chance of a tornado !  Jules lives in a cracker box double wide. The barn where her boarders and horses in training are is no spring chicken and this monster storm is heading directly for them. Believe me, I couldn’t read fast enough! The descriptions are amazing. You feel it all. The fear especially. For yourself, for your house and barn and your precious horses that will have to be turned out in pastures to survive as best they can!The whole book holds up well and reads in a beautiful flow except maybe when Jules is whining… again…. I loved how it took help from Peter to show her what was the problem with Micky.  Just really loved the book and found it hard to put down. I think even a non horse person would enjoy this book. Especially if you want to live through a hurricane without actually getting the bruises.