Thoroughbred #39: Living Legend (Thoroughbred)

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Summary: UGH! bad book
Review: I don't get it. In all the books Christina wants to be an event rider and she shuns racing. Now she's a jockey and she's sold STERLING, her beloved horse that she traded Wonder's Legacy for!
some of these TB books are so off-track. A great series, but the authors should really stick to the facts.

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Summary: Living Legend is a great book!
Review: I have noticed in the last few posts on these recent books you guys have stated you want Joanna to come back! Well she was so nice to email and explain about all the deadlines for the series and how editors must change the book because they have the own opinion! She is probably to busy to meet all the deadlines! Now I know there is some bad things about this book! But that doesn't make the book bad! If you really think about it...it is hard to review over 40 books to find the correct info. So I can only guess they changed it! They assume that we will get the picture in our head and make up what happened to Cindy and that Brad wanted to change the Townsend Acres so he could have a feeling of it as his own! Eventing is cool and all but I prefer to read about the racing and over time Christina 's out looks changed on life and it was mostly because of Star,who means so much to her and she wants to be where he is! I hope I spread a little positive sense towards this book! Good job guys (authors)! This book was really deep and dipped down into Christina's emotion and it showed the down of racing! Living Legend is a great book!

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Summary: What Happened?
Review: I know everyone is saying that from book 24+ the series turns to jumping. But, as you can see from this book that is not true because Christina gives up eventing to become a jockey! Everyone is also saying that Cindy is excluded from the series! She is not as she comes back in book 43! This series has not got worse! Living Legend is one of my favourite books about Wonder's Star, the beautiful chestnut colt who Christina will ride to victory!

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Summary: AWESOME BOOK!!!!
Review: I relaly loved this book, especially the parts where Christina rides claimers. Everyone is goign on about how horses have been forgotten and how the series are so terrible now but they arent! But I guess I didn't start reading these books at the begininng. I live in Australia and the books are extremely hard to find. I found a few Cindy ones in the library once and now i buy all the ones i can find and i love nearly everyone! Anyway I menqat this to be a short review so bye!

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Summary: UGH! bad book
Review: Living Legend is an awesome book. christina loses the Spring Stakes on Star, the colt she has raised since he was a small foal. they won the kentucky stakes the month before, but now chris is discouraged. she thinks that she isnt a good enough jockey to ride Star. she stops exercising and racing star for a few weeks and rides claimers behind her parent's backs! that is the only way to get good experience. every thing works out there, though. but christina's mom Ashleigh starts to ride star. they are going really well together, so Ashleigh rides Star to a win in the Debutante Stakes. christina becomes jealous of ashleigh and star. but ash insists that christina should ride him in his next race. she says star snt nearly as fast for her as he is for chris. now that christina has had experience racing green, young horses, will she and Star win the magnolia stakes? or will a major set back in christina's life cause her to enter star in the Laurel Stakes instead?
i loved the way chris went behind her parents' backs.......christina normally doesn't do things like that.melanie does. i also like the fact that the Thoroughbred series went back to racing. i liked eventing, but the series is about racing, and thats the topic they should stick to.
This book is soooooooooooooooo good! it is a must- read!

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Summary: An Improvement
Review: This book is much better then the other books that have been written lately. It's very realistic, and gives more insight into the horse racing world then any TB book ever has before. I give props to the author/editors/publishers for limiting Chris's wins. But Star still hits me as a slacker. There is no real development between horse and rider. You see that he won't perform for anyone but Christina, we understand that, but the relationship is completely one sided. Christina dotes on Star, that's quite clear, but for a colt who's supposed to be in love with one person, Star seems to completely ignore Christina. Another thing, the book relied a little too heavily on races for a plot. Inbetween the book seemed to sag. Having lots of races in a book is all good, but there was little character development outside of the races. There were also some minor detail problems. Ashleigh didn't jockey Wonder in the Derby and Belmont, Jilly did. Ashleigh's first Triple Crown victories were in the Kentucky Derby and Preakness aboard Wonder's Pride. Recent authors of the series seem to be challenged by simple facts like that. It's really not that hard. Just make up some sort of spread sheet with each horse's name, what races they won/lost, and who was riding them. That should make it easier. Another helpful thing might be to read all the previous books. Townsend Acres colors are green and gold, not red and black, though I can let that one slip seeing as there's always the possibility that Brad changed the colors. However, if that was the case, this should have been explained to readers by the authors, or the author should have known the correct colors. Research help. You might not think people will notice small slips like that, but they will. The editors also need to work better at catching mess ups like that. Another thing is that Christina's hair color keeps changing. First it's strawberry blonde, then it's brown, then it's strawberry blonde again. Make up your mind! I can understand someone's hair getting darker as they get older, mine certainly did, but I don't believe someone's hair changing back quite that fast. Your hair color can lighten in the summer, but not that much. You'd have to dye it. But, other then the small detail flaws, and the slight lack of character development, this book was overall, good.