Review: Sweet romance
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 06 30, 2014
Breaking Fences is the story of Bia, who has broken out from under the wings of her father and her family and gone off to college in Colorado.  Her family, originally from Brazil, is in California while she is off starting this new adventure all on her own.This poor girl.Ugh.  I hate mean girls.  I really do.I also hate stereotypes.Bia has to deal with being stereotyped by mean girls, and personally, I think she is incredibly strong.  I don’t know if I could have stayed, at her age, in that place in my life, I probably would have ran back to my family.  Bia runs to riding horses.  It is what she knows and loves.She already knows Garrett a bit from interactions around the college and he is at the ranch that she rides at.I adored Bia, I loved Garrett, and I had so much hope for them.  Honestly, there are not a lot of likable characters in this book and a whole lot of dislikable ones (it is supposed to be that way).  In Colorado Bia’s circle of people she can trust and is comfortable with is made up of Tom, Pheobe, and hopefully Garrett.I loved Garrett too, until the very end when he was tarnished a bit for me.  I get why he did what he did in the beginning, but it kind of spoke of his character a bit too, that bothered me.  I still like him as a character and as a human, everyone makes mistakes, but when this one moment came out, it just kind of dulled his shine a bit for me.I have to add that I loved the horses as characters.  It wasn’t described just as I saddled up a horse and took it for a ride.  The two main horses had their own personalities that shone through throughout the book.  I adored that.  They added a lot to the story.All in all though, it was a very sweet read.  Perfect for reading on a summer day at the beach, if it would ever stop raining around here.Thank you so much for my copy of Breaking Fences!  I enjoyed it!