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A review by seadaz
Flambards by K.M. Peyton
4.0
Enjoyed this short novel.
It gave me quite a dark feeling. The old man was a right b*****d, so very cruel to Will.
The ending wasn't an ending at all, just an abrupt stop.
Luckily I do have Flambards in Summer to read (in fact I'm now about 100 pages in).
So the books are very quick and easy to read, in the first one there is no sex nor swearing. There is obviously sex behind the scenes, as Mark gets the parlour maid pregnant (unmarried so sent away in embarrassment).
Mark sounded handsome (until he got beaten to a pulp for getting the young lass up the duff), was quite brave, but alas he was a brute to people and the horses.
Will was by all accounts a weak, infirmed dreamer, he hates horses and is scared of hunting with a passion, he really only wants to fly planes.
The young Christina is an orphan that is moved around a lot during her first 12 yrs. it appears that her uncle has eyes on her inheritance, that she will get at 21, until then, she is a poor young lass. Uncle and possibly the aunt want to marry her off to the handsome but brutish Mark.
She moves to Flambards, learns to horse ride, is good at it and loves to hunt, she seems to be constantly in a battle with Mark.
She has teenage love feelings for the horse handler at Flambards, Dick.
Unfortunately she ends up getting Dick fired from his job, when she tries to save her loved horse Sweetbriar from being shot and fed to the hounds, following a nasty hunt fall that Mark causes, making the mare pretty much useless.
The story ends soon after the hunt ball, where she is proposed to by both Mark and Will, I won't say who she ends up, if at all, so I won't spoil it for others.
It gave me quite a dark feeling. The old man was a right b*****d, so very cruel to Will.
The ending wasn't an ending at all, just an abrupt stop.
Luckily I do have Flambards in Summer to read (in fact I'm now about 100 pages in).
So the books are very quick and easy to read, in the first one there is no sex nor swearing. There is obviously sex behind the scenes, as Mark gets the parlour maid pregnant (unmarried so sent away in embarrassment).
Mark sounded handsome (until he got beaten to a pulp for getting the young lass up the duff), was quite brave, but alas he was a brute to people and the horses.
Will was by all accounts a weak, infirmed dreamer, he hates horses and is scared of hunting with a passion, he really only wants to fly planes.
The young Christina is an orphan that is moved around a lot during her first 12 yrs. it appears that her uncle has eyes on her inheritance, that she will get at 21, until then, she is a poor young lass. Uncle and possibly the aunt want to marry her off to the handsome but brutish Mark.
She moves to Flambards, learns to horse ride, is good at it and loves to hunt, she seems to be constantly in a battle with Mark.
She has teenage love feelings for the horse handler at Flambards, Dick.
Unfortunately she ends up getting Dick fired from his job, when she tries to save her loved horse Sweetbriar from being shot and fed to the hounds, following a nasty hunt fall that Mark causes, making the mare pretty much useless.
The story ends soon after the hunt ball, where she is proposed to by both Mark and Will, I won't say who she ends up, if at all, so I won't spoil it for others.