mercyblue 's review for:

Summer Circuit by Kim Ablon Whitney

DID NOT FINISH

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Alright so I'm going to be brutally honest about how I feel about this novel. Starting off it felt almost like I was reading something that could become a guilty pleasure. Horses and romance mixed together, what could be better for a horse lover such as myself? But boy was I wrong. While Hannah is not an unlikable character, I couldn't enjoy her personality at all since I (unlike her) am not a spoiled barn brat. I was trained to muck stalls, scrub water buckets, feed horses, groom horses, tack horses, clean tack ect, from the minute I started bouncing around on a horses back. Reading about a spoiled girl who has to learn everything from the ground up was disappointing to me in many ways. But I was willing to look past it if the information provided was accurate. And since the information was accurate I was willing to push myself to keep reading until about 60% of the way through. But then by the time I got there I decided to give up all pretenses and skip over various parts just to see what happens at the end. Another pet peeve of mine was Chris' inability to give Hannah any sexual gratification, while he got all the gratification he could possibly need. If you really love somebody you give as much as you take. All in all, I won't be picking up the next in this series and would tell all horse lovers to STAY AWAY FROM IT!