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elisabethd8a's review against another edition
emotional
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.5
This chaste Christian women's literature novel is slow moving at the beginning of the book and moves so fast in the last chapter where an extremely slow burn romance gets a happily ever after.
ianmcnamara's review against another edition
5.0
this was a lovely and heart warming story. All the characters apart from Sandra were easy to like. The story was beautiful and went a long at a nice pace. Eddie especially was a lovable character and was very easy to fall in love with. I was really glad that everyone got the ending they deserved in the end.
shi2147's review against another edition
3.0
I first discovered Lauraine Snelling years ago when I discovered her young adult horse series. I've always been a sucker for horse books. This was a nice easy read with a clean romance as well as message about a second chance at life. The storyline was simple and fairly predictable, however it made for some good light reading. I have this book 3/5 stars.
averyhoppypal's review against another edition
4.0
This book was fantastic, although I have to admit, the end was way too mushy for my liking. Of course, I'm not a big fan of 'love stories'. But still this was a sad and finally happy story.
pswhite7's review against another edition
3.0
I enjoyed the book. The ending was a little weak but a good read.
serenam's review against another edition
3.0
This was a beautiful story with several very good parts and a few exceptional descriptions. However, overall, it was poorly written. There are quite a few punctuation errors, and it reads like a cheesy romance novel (despite containing very little romance). In addition, there are no gradual changes in this book, and every decision is made abruptly, no matter how major.
But before I go too far into my complaints and scare all the readers away: it is a light read with good morals and plenty of horses--the latter being the reason I picked it up in the first place. If Lauraine Snelling doesn't have horse experience, she did her research very well, because there were no horse-related facepalms on my part. And Bonnie the Basset hound is perhaps my favorite character.
This is very much a fairy tale in that everything works out perfectly and the villain, who is known to be evil from the beginning, has vanished by the end in one way or another. Speaking of the end, it's one of those grand finales where not only the main plot, but all of the subplots as well, is resolved. And the last sentence of the last chapter was a gag-worthy mini epilogue that could have been, if not a decent epilogue, several more chapters.
*Originally posted on poetree.
But before I go too far into my complaints and scare all the readers away: it is a light read with good morals and plenty of horses--the latter being the reason I picked it up in the first place. If Lauraine Snelling doesn't have horse experience, she did her research very well, because there were no horse-related facepalms on my part. And Bonnie the Basset hound is perhaps my favorite character.
This is very much a fairy tale in that everything works out perfectly and the villain, who is known to be evil from the beginning, has vanished by the end in one way or another. Speaking of the end, it's one of those grand finales where not only the main plot, but all of the subplots as well, is resolved. And the last sentence of the last chapter was a gag-worthy mini epilogue that could have been, if not a decent epilogue, several more chapters.
*Originally posted on poetree.