The Horse Whisperer

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Summary: Equis journey helps inner growth
Review: At the start of this book it pulls you into the lives of a family that appear happy; as all do, but then the book shows you the undercurrents of family life. When tragedy strikes, common sense tells you the strain on any family will be great, but when reading this book you soon realise; this journey to save a horses life, leads all the other characters into a turmoil of essential truism and sometimes frustrating fait accompli. Even though it might appear to be a love story, this story is actually about inner truths that hide in all of us when faced with adversity.

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Summary: Amazing
Review: I put off reading this book for a year after it came out, thinking "What's the big deal?" -- I'm here to tell you, this book is a BIG DEAL. I've never read anything like it. I have never had a book move me to tears as this book did. The author has an excellent descriptive writing style. And the plot twist toward the end caught me totally off guard. Another tear-jerker. The movie version will be interesting. Here's hoping the author is working on another novel as wonderful as his first venture. Kudos

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Summary: The Slow Waltzing Horses of Madison County
Review: Despite the promising idea of a psycho-therapist for the equine crowd, this novel eventually drops to the level of "will they or won't they do it" that betrayed the Bridges of Madison County. In his defense, Evans writes a good page turner, and does make you care deeply about the horse, the young girl and her father. This is probably more enjoyable for the fairer sex

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Summary: A heart wrenching love story of man ,woman, child & horse...
Review: Soon to be released as a major motion picture starring Robert Redford, truely a love story of the 90's. It shows that for everything that is tragic in one's lifetime, there is something wonderfull to counter-balance. This books takes passion & compassion to the highest level. The type of novel, when started, you don't want to put down until finished

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Summary: A roller-coaster ride that jumps the tracks!!
Review: I just finished The Horse Whisperer after weeks of looking for it. I must say I have been intrigued by this book since finding out the plot - a man who can "heal"/"talk" to horses - how captivating! Well, from the first few pages, I was hooked as if I had stepped aboard a roller coaster ride. I buckled up and readied myself for the adventurous ride on which I was about to embark. The first half of my ride was full of "twists" and "turns". However, the last half was like hopping aboard a merry-go-round. The plot went round and round with nothing much interesting happening. The ending was a huge disappointment! After spending about 480 pages building us up for the recovery of Pilgrim, Grace, and Annie, Evans just sort of tidies up all the loose ends with a half-hearted knot! It was as if he got tired of the Annie-Tom-Grace-Pilgrim syndrome and decided to "fix" it all in about 4-5 pages. C'mon, Nick, they deserve the same love and care you gave them in the beginning of the book. Next time, give your characters the benefit of the doubt as well as your readers. Evans has the potential to be a great writer in the tradition of Conroy. He just needs to read some of his reader's comments and heed them.

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Summary: A heart-stopping story of love, hope, healing and redemption
Review: Let your heart be your guide as you travel from the crowded Long Island countryside to the vast lands under the Big Sky of Montana. This is the book for a sun-drenched day at the beach. This story of healing, hope, redemption and love is epic in scope yet easy-to-read. Enjoy it, absorb it, devour it. Watch mother and daughter mature, discover love both lost and new-found. One warning...after a roller coaster emotional ride, the novel's final scenes are both trite and somewhat disappointing. Don't dismay -- The Horse Whisperer is still worth it

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Summary: Heartbreaking love-story of monumental proportions.
Review: The Horse Whisperer is by far THE love story for the '90's. Mr. Evans writes, as if from first hand experience, about a woman in love with one man, but, married to another. She is torn between her desire to be with the easy-going, rough-neck, who is far from being her "ideal" man, and the man she promised to spend the rest of her life with. When her daughter suffers a terrible accident, our heroine calls on an old-fashioned cowboy to help bring her daughter's horse back from no-man's land. Never suspecting she would be attracted to this cowboy, she pursues him to Montana to convince him to help her with the horse. Finding herself drawn to him, she contrives to stay in Montana with him, and finds herself torn between her sense of duty, and the call eminating from her heart. A true heart-breaker; this book will reduce you to tears. I couldn't stop reading it, and finished it in one day!!!

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Summary: Awful--did not live up to promise of its title.
Review: I read this book because I love horses, I enjoy romances, and I was intrigued by the title (the best part of the book) and the beautiful cover. What a HUGE disappointment. Evans starts out with an interesting concept--that of a "horse whisperer" who can communicate with horses, and who can possibly help a young girl and her horse achieve emotional healing following a traumatic accident that has crippled them spiritually as well as physically. The initial scenes building up to the accident are rather well-written and grab your attention...then the book rapidly unravels and falls apart. I find it hard to understand why so many people are so enthralled with this book. The plot and dialogue are unbelievable to the point of being corny and laughable. The characters are also unbelievable and poorly (if at all) developed. Evans is the sort of author who thinks he can simply state that a character is such-and-such, and we will believe it without any illustration: he describes Annie as being absolutely brilliant, breezily skating through Oxford and her amazing career without effort, but nothing she says or does convinces us of her rapier-like intelligence. Apparently, constantly cursing at her employees constitutes brilliance. And the ending is absolute drivel. One of the worst books I have ever read, and I have read a lot

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Summary: Worst best-seller I have ever read.
Review: I have loved horses and horse books, and reading, all my life, so I thought this one would be a naturalI cannot believe this work got past the editors. It reads like a Danielle Steele reject. Unbelievable dialogue abounds. After finishing the dumb thing (I kept hoping it would get better) I threw it away, not wanting to be responsible for one more person reading this junk. A really dumb book!

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Summary: This book was Excellent! A Movie should be made.
Review: I couldn't put the book down. It was the best I have read in a long time. I wish the end of the book could of ended different. The end really surprised me