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Summary: A page-turner....very engrossing!
Review: As a horsewoman and a library clerk, I feel quite confident in my 5 star rating of this book. The plot is all-engrossing: drama, humor, joy, sadness, romance, and lots of action. I found myself exclaiming aloud, crying, or laughing at certain passages. Another cool thing about this book is that it isn't just for the middle or high schooler - adults will enjoy it just as much. The only drawback to reading it is that now I'm hard-pressed to begin another book that is just as terrific! I'm still reeling with this one...
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Summary: It Was Great!
Review: Blind beauty is a great book and I'd recommend it to any young person. It shows that threw the worst accomplishing your dreams is possible.
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Summary: Awesome book!
Review: Blind Beauty, by K.M. Peyton (an Irish author), is an incredible horse story set in Ireland and England. It begins when a four-year-old Tessa befriends her father Declan's eyeless filly Shiner, and forms a strong bond. Then her mother leaves Declan, taking Tessa, and remarries an abusive and not quite sane man named Maurice. Tessa grows into a rebellious twelve-year-old who has been expelled from several boarding schools. Maurice, who already loathed Tessa, was fed up with her, and so she was sent to work at his stable. There she starts pursuing riding with a passion, persuading one of the trainers to teach her. When Buffoon (Shiner's colt) arrives at the stable, he is shunned by everyone, including Tessa, for he is gawky and ugly. However, Jimmy (the trainer teaching Tessa) assigns her to ride him. Soon Tessa comes to love the good-natured oaf, and that bond becomes an obsessive love when she finds of his relation to Shiner. She dreamed of riding Buffoon in the Grand National (a steeplechase), totally confident of his abilities. Then, her plans are interrupted when her mother found another boarding school to enroll her in. To get back to Buffoon, Tessa purposely forced herself to be expelled. Once again, she pursues her dream, and with the help of Tom, a top jockey, it soon becomes a definite possibility. However, just before the Grand National, Buffoon's "best friend", a pony named Lucky, is stolen by Maurice, who is desperate for his own horse to beat Buffoon...
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Summary: EXCELLENT
Review: Could not even try to begin to tell you how good this book is.
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Summary: national velvet by way of dickens
Review: Given the subject - steeplechasing - it may sound ironic to begin by saying that I found the book to drag a bit. Although the story was intriguing, I felt it could have been compressed without removing any of the suspense. Also, the several shifts to the horse's viewpoint seemed to come out of nowhere, and several times I lost track of how old the main character was now and how much time had elapsed between crises. At one point, the bad luck being piled upon the horse was more than I could bear to read (especially when his pony companion was stolen). But what a gutsy heroine and her triumph seemed earned all the way.
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Summary: Horse Maniacs Will Love This
Review: Great story , moving, suspensing, thrilling, another amazing story from K. M Peyton. Tessa's story was very much inspiring for me, I even started to ride better at my stables :) Strong character with a lot of problems, hanging on to one thing that made her life better: Buffoon. The writer's switch between the humans and how the horse thinks was very emotional, somtimes upsetting. I very much take each step into thought know when dealing with horses.
This book would also interest non-horsey fans, has love, pain, adventure, and sports all into it. Fantastic.
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Summary: This is great but not the best
Review: I loved this book but i wish that there were a follow-up book to it, like to tell more about was happens between Tom and Tessa. it kinda ends without telling if they get maried or sumthin.
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Summary: This is great but not the best
Review: I loved this book but i wish that there were a follow-up book to it, like to tell more about was happens between Tom and Tessa. it kinda ends without telling if they get maried or sumthin.
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Summary: Blind Beauty from Christine C. from Cornsville
Review: I read the book Blind Beauty by K.M. Peyton. The book is about a young girl named Tessa, and her will and determination to win the Grand National with her horse, Buffoon. She is very rebellious, hotheaded, and loves to rebuke her stepfather, Maurice. Maurice is a hot shot horse owner and dealer, he likes to gamble a lot. She has been kicked out of boarding school three times and can't get into a new school, so Maurice sends Tessa off to work at a farm. Tessa's mother, Myra, is ruled by Maurice and has no say to what happens to her daughter. There at the farm Tessa learns how to love again, be motivated, etc. She is asked to exercise Buffoon, who is the son of Shiner- the horse Tessa played with and loved as a kid. She decides to become a jockey and to ride Buffoon in the Grand National, one day. She has many set backs, but she still becomes a jockey. Tessa dreams were shattered when Maurice stole Lucky, who is Buffoon's friend. Buffoon wouldn't race without Lucky, and Tessa didn't win the Grand National. When she found out that Maurice stole Lucky, she stabbed him. She got to sent to the loony bin and spent two years there until Tom, a famous jockey and a good friend, helped her back on her feet. She got to ride Buffoon in the Grand National, again and won. Myra escaped from the clutches of Maurice when he finds out that she lent some money to Tessa for the Grand National and he beat her up. She went to live with her Tessa on the farm and learned some good lessons like Tessa. I think this was a great book and I give it four stars. The reason why I give it four stars is because number one it is very detailed about the races, secondly it is a very touching story like something you can relate to, and thirdly the book didn't have a lot of description about the other main characters. The book Blind Beauty is a very powerful book about a person's will power, determination, and how valuable friends can be.
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Summary: Blind Beauty
Review: It all starts going downhill when Tessa's parents divorce when she is little and she is torn from the blind mare she loved in Ireland and they move to Liverpool. Her mother marries Maurice, a rich but heartless man who promptly sends Tessa away to boarding school. Tessa's attitude gets her expelled from more than a few schools by the time she's twelve, and in a last attempt to rid Tessa from his home, Maurice shoves her off to a stable two miles from the home where steeplechasers are trained. It is a humble place, and Tessa wants to be anywhere but there. She tries to get herself kicked out, but ends up forming a friendship with the stable staff, especially after the arrival of an ugly colt who turns out to be the son of the mare she loved as a child. Tessa knows he is great, and she intends to prove it by winning the Grand National. But that's not quite so easy when she must deal with the problem of her stepfather--and deal with him she does, in her own unique way. This book was excellent. Racing knowledge is good and helps push the believability of this story. The characters are real and the author is not afraid to show their bad sides or the negative sides to life. A nice, long, satisfying read that will leave you wanting more, it plays with your emotions. I loved it.
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