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Summary: The 'famous racehorse' thing...
Review: First of all, I have not yet read this book, so don�t get excited! I�m an Aussie and our TB books are much slower over here, the most recent release at the moment it Hoofprints in the Snow!
But to my point: I just wanted to comment that I am very disappointed at the latest attempt at the authors of TB (Can�t keep track of them) at attract audiences to their book. I.e., the use of horses with bloodlines tracing back to famous thoroughbred. Sure, it would work once, maybe even twice, but it�s starting to get old now. I mean, it�s just too obvious an attempt when you start bringing in references like Seabiscuit, who has recently been in a movie and as such will have exposed the general public to wider knowledge of him. Enough, guys, you�ve done it to death! The photos are ok, nothing wrong with including one of those � but stop the references!
In other news, I�m looking forward to the next few TB books, watch out for my reviews ;) Chris
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Summary: It was pretty good
Review: For all Thoroughbred lovers, I personally loved Hi Jinx more than Image, I don't know why. He made me think of Native Dancer, my favorite racehorse. But what is happenin between Mel and Jazz?? For some reason i think Mel is startin to like Kevin again. Its 2 bad though, I like Jazz. I never liked Kevin or Dylan. But read this book- I agree that the whole 'famous bloodlines' thing is annoying, but otherwise this is a pretty great book.
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Summary: Pretty Good
Review: For all Thoroughbred lovers, I personally loved Hi Jinx more than Image, I don't know why. He made me think of Native Dancer, my favorite racehorse. But what is happenin between Mel and Jazz?? For some reason i think Mel is startin to like Kevin again. Its 2 bad though, I like Jazz. I never liked Kevin or Dylan. But read this book- I agree that the whole 'famous bloodlines' thing is annoying, but otherwise this is a pretty great book.
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Summary: Number One For Fans Of Man O' War
Review: I agree with another reviewer-- ENOUGH famous horses. I do like the bios (the Romance horse was good in Parker's Passion-- I always liked eventing a smidgen better) but the references are a tad too much, especially when some of them aren't correct. Wasn't Flag's Up Farm the farm where Alleged was trained? The Roberts farm? I don't recall all of it's stock being shipped off... and was it even in Kentucky?:s
But I do like the Melanie is getting a new horse. I was fearful that the series would be ending! The one thing I am starting to miss about TBs is their realism. In the first few (1-20) there was so much about the racer's times and running style... and that's starting to disappear. Still, it's one of the best realistic horse fiction out there, so thumbs up!
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Summary: It was pretty good
Review: This book was pretty good, it was a little flash backie, but worth the wait to get back to the accual story. I agree with some of the other reviewers that theirs a couple too meny horses with a famous backgrounds in this series. I was disapointed when I read one of the other reviewers remark on how they thought that the author ran out of ideas for Hi Jynx's personality and made it just like images when the whole book was about how Meliny treated him like image when he wan't.
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Summary: Unbridled Fury
Review: This is a great book. With all of these THoroughbred books together they send a chill up my back. Even though they mostly talk about racing I would like it if Christina would change her mind once again and go back to eventing. It would be interesting to hear about that.
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Summary: Unbridled Fury
Review: Unbridled Fury was a great book. But i agree with another reviewer about the whole famous horse thing...it was ok the first time but it seems they have been doing it almost every book now! its getting kinda old. Anyway, i think its great that melanie was able to find another horse to work with. although it seems to me like they are just re creating another image. Alot of the things that jinx did, image did too. Even melanie said that...(when jinx broke away from his handlers and raced away on the track). Image did the same thing when melanie saw her. that kinda gave me the impression that they couldnt think of something else for jinx and they made him do whatever image did. idk....anywhoo this was a great book and i recommend it to anyone who has read the TB series.
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Summary: so...bad...
Review: wow. this book was terrible. melanie's character was terrible. the plot was terrible. the writing was terrible. jinx was terrible. i'm so glad that this trend was no repeated in following books, which have been a HUGE and welcome improvement.
even though the series still stumbles, i've been buying these books for 11 years and will continue to do so. i hope that the editors reconsider their decision to end the series.
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