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Summary: ANot the best I've ever read but still good!
Review: How to start? Well, in my opinion, this book was not all that good.First of all, this whole Star almost dying and then going to Montana to "find the itancan" or some such just scares me. As does Lyssa. Just a random character who comes into the story to save Star's life. Gag. The mistakes in here are just terrible. On page 11, Christina is being interviewed by a reporter. In the book, it reads "'Ms. Howard is with the Racing Reporter, not the Daily Racing Form. I must have misunderstood,' Ashleigh said, barely masking her distain." OK, first of all, I don't think they meant to use 'distain,' I am pretty sure it should have been disdain. And also, why wouldn't Ashleigh support another racing magazine? Since Joanna Campbell stopped writing, Ashleigh's character has just gotten worse and worse. Also, they called Ian McLean Ian MacLean, they said Wonder won the Derby and Preakness when in actuality she won the Derby and Belmont, etc., etc. Another mistake that bugged me is on page 54, when Parker and Christina are arguing over college, Parker says, "you know, it's not easy being out in the world with only a high-school diploma ... do you really want to struggle all your life the way your parents have?" He doesn't come out and say Ashleigh and Mike didn't go to college, but he implies it -- which is entirely false. Both of them went to college. Speaking of college, I don't think Christina would be allowed to skip it. Plus, there was no pre-story to that, really, and almost no arguements. OK, enough about the mistakes, but this was not one of the better Thoroughbred books. And that is all I have to say. :)
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Summary: Ack...
Review: How to start? Well, in my opinion, this book was not all that good. First of all, this whole Star almost dying and then going to Montana to "find the itancan" or some such just scares me. As does Lyssa. Just a random character who comes into the story to save Star's life. Gag. The mistakes in here are just terrible. On page 11, Christina is being interviewed by a reporter. In the book, it reads "'Ms. Howard is with the Racing Reporter, not the Daily Racing Form. I must have misunderstood,' Ashleigh said, barely masking her distain." OK, first of all, I don't think they meant to use 'distain,' I am pretty sure it should have been disdain. And also, why wouldn't Ashleigh support another racing magazine? Since Joanna Campbell stopped writing, Ashleigh's character has just gotten worse and worse. Also, they called Ian McLean Ian MacLean, they said Wonder won the Derby and Preakness when in actuality she won the Derby and Belmont, etc., etc. Another mistake that bugged me is on page 54, when Parker and Christina are arguing over college, Parker says, "you know, it's not easy being out in the world with only a high-school diploma ... do you really want to struggle all your life the way your parents have?" He doesn't come out and say Ashleigh and Mike didn't go to college, but he implies it -- which is entirely false. Both of them went to college. Speaking of college, I don't think Christina would be allowed to skip it. Plus, there was no pre-story to that, really, and almost no arguements. OK, enough about the mistakes, but this was not one of the better Thoroughbred books. And that is all I have to say. :)
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Summary: At least it was interesting.
Review: I must say, as unbelievable as this book was, at least it was interesting. First off, Chris is turning into a spoiled whiny brat. Second, Star WON even though Celtic Mist is 100% fit and just as good a horse? It's his first start back, get real! Anyway, if Celtic Mist had won it really would have turned up the heat for the Derby (if they ever get to it), and speaking of Celtic Mist, I find it hard to believe he went down to Louisiana when their are a million good races in Florida.
Dispite the bad plot, Karle Dickerson did a good job making it interesting so I actually got through it.
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Summary: Excellent!! :)
Review: I've always liked the Star and Christina books, and now that Star is back in racing form, he's doing better than ever! A must read, especially if you've read the books that have mentioned Celtic Mist in them. I'm sooooo happy the books are about racing, I love it! I love jumping, but racing is much more origonal. I can't wait for Team Player to come out!
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Summary: One of the BEST!
Review: Star is finally coming back to racing. Christina knows he will have to race in a bigger prep race for the Kentucky Derby if he will be eligable! But her mom, Ashleigh, thinks a smaller stakes race would be better for him. Christina is determind to enter him in the Louisiana Derby at the Fair Grounds but didn't realize Celtic Mist, Brad's expencive, fancy racehorse would be running too, after she convinces Ashleigh to let him run in it...Very well written and definatly a cliff-hanger!
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Summary: so so
Review: There were several aspects of this book that annoyed me. Christina for one. I don't like how Karle Dickerson portrays her character. She's bratty and obnoxious. And she whines all the time.
But, positive things. I liked the change of scenery. Now just the usual track all the time, we get to go to New Orleans! There's also some cool character interaction as there is in all of Dickerson's books. She's excellent with witty dialogue. I also liekd how the racing scenes are written.
All in all, it's get's 3 stars. Not the best in the series, but I've read far worse. Having said all this, they are chosing to end the TB series. This really saddens me and I'd hate for that to happen. Please don't end the TB series!!!
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Summary: Christina is the main problem
Review: This book was written okay, not as good as i hoped it might be, but I guess it could've been worse. What can't get worse, though, is Christinas behavior. She's a acting like snobby, spoiled brat! When you read a book, you want the main character to be likeable. I'm not saying that he/she has to be perfect all the time and never do any mistakes, no, I want the main ch. to be human and not always succeed, and sometimes do things they regret, but still nice. Ashleigh and Samantha were more like that, they weren't perfect, but nice, so you could identify yourself more with them. In this book, all Christina can think about is that Star has to run in the Kentucky Derby, and that he has to win, win, win. I just can't stand her attitude. This book would've been much better if it hadn't been for her. But as I said, otherwise the book was okay. And one last thing: all you authors, please don't keep us in suspense anymore - we want to know what happens in the Derby!!! (I said we bacause I know a lot of people who agree with me.) Would that we possible..?
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Summary: Star's back!
Review: This is a great book, but I don't like how the Whitebrook horses always win. That gets annoying. It makes you hope that for once they can lose a race. I'm glad Star beat Celtic Mist though. It shows Brad and Lavinia that their horse isn't as great as Star. I wish they would just leave Ashleigh alone. The one thing I don't like is how stubborn she is - she should take the risk. I mean, isn't that what racing is about? I have to disagree with another review about Star. (For another book.) I know Star wins a lot but not because he's a "goody two shoes." It's because he's got heart as all great race horses do. Anyway, I recommend this book to any horse lover!
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Summary: ANot the best I've ever read but still good!
Review: Well, I though it was good but I really get into the ones about Melanie! I think that Christina was not her normal self, but every ones like that some times! I wish Lysa or whatever her name is would leave the book series I don't think Star would of won in real life, he might of, but the bad guy wins some times! I also am wondering what happened to Dylan! I would still recomend it!
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