Review: Horses and romance. Great combo.
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 01 12, 2014
I have to say that although I pretty much loved this book, it was occasionally irritating.  Meghan Namaste REALLY understands her "horse" which I always find a wonderful thing. She even tries to do a bit of "soap boxing" for horses throughout the book and I give her 5 plus "hearts" for that. One of the things I find a bit irritating  is the often "over the top" writing. It gives me the feeling of instead of just getting the story moving along, red, white and blue become RED, WHITE and BLUE.. if you get my drift. I can live with that because of the intelligence of her horse relationship  knowledge and I do like her characters. Mostly.  Lawrence though.. I did get tired of the fact that he viewed women as objects to sleep with and not much else. There was nothing polite about who he was.  The author does give you some insight into this nasty habit and why he developed it, much deeper into the book but still, it was a overdrawn.  Then there is Amber.. an odd duck to be sure but when she moves in with Lawrence because she has no job, is his friend and then abuses him loudly, hotly and often, its way too over the top. If I were helping someone out and they behaved the way she did to Lawrence, she would have been out on her ear. Not realistic.  The other thing she does that I found irritating was giving chapters to a couple of women when the story  had moved on without them. They were women in Lawrence's  life that he had moved away from. They could have easily been  phased out I believe without hurting the story. They were like roads that branched off and went to no destination that I could tell.  ( Except for Elaine) I will be looking to see how the author progresses in her next books.  If you have been lucky enough to ever have spent time learning "Natural Horsemanship" or reading "Round Pen Reasoning" you will probably enjoy this book even more than the normal romance and horse lover reader. For those folks.. read this, think you will love it. For the rest of you, it is a good read also. Try it!