Book Review - WEDNESDAY RIDERS by Tudor Robins

WEDNESDAY RIDERS

Book 2 (Island Trilogy)

BY

Tudor Robins

The island. Meg can’t wait to get back. She’s excited to see her new mare kick up her heels in Salem’s old paddock. She’s impatient to run on country roads between breeze-blown hayfields.

Mostly, Meg longs to be back with Jared again. It’s going to be the perfect summer. But can real life live up to Meg’s huge expectations? When Jared makes a heart-wrenching confession, Meg has to re-evaluate everything. If perfection’s not possible, can Meg find a way to build happiness for herself?

Fans of Appaloosa Summer will welcome the return to familiar places and characters, with the chance to be captivated by more of the beauty, romance, and dreaminess of Meg’s summer island life.

 MY THOUGHTS…

I read book one of this series (Appaloosa Summer) and instantly fell in love with the characters. There was no cliffhanger at the end of book one, but for me, I just had to read book two.

Wednesday Riders brought conflict between the characters. Jared might have ruined his relationship with Meg and Meg doesn’t help the situation at all. I hoped, more than wondered, all the way through that everything would sort itself out in the end.

Lacey – I can’t decide if she would be a great friend to have or a great, slightly annoying, friend to have. I think that it leans slightly to ‘great friend’ and I think that we would get on well as, like her, I love horses and I can’t stop talking!

Even though he isn’t in this book so much, my favourite character is still Jared (he was my favourite in book one).

I love Tudor Robin’s books, and I Highly Recommend this book!

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Book Review - APPALOOSA SUMMER by Tudor Robins

APPALOOSA SUMMER

Book 1 (Island Trilogy)

BY

Tudor Robins

Sixteen-year-old Meg Traherne has never known loss. Until the beautiful, talented horse she trained herself, drops dead underneath her in the show ring. Jared Strickland has been living with loss ever since his father died in a tragic farming accident. Meg escapes from her grief by changing everything about her life; moving away from home to spend her summer living on an island in the St. Lawrence River, scrubbing toilets and waiting on guests at a B&B. Once there, she meets Jared; doing his best to keep anything else in his life from changing. When Jared offers Meg a scruffy appaloosa mare out of a friend’s back field, it’s the beginning of a journey that will change both of them by summer’s end.

MY THOUGHTS…

Appaloosa Summer basically sums up my dream summer...

The dramatic beginning hooked me pretty much before the story had even started. Major Disaster, Meg's horse, died while being ridden by Meg, in a competition. I hate whoever named him. He seemed, in the short time that I got to know him, like a horse that you didn’t just ride, but a best friend.

I love horses, and when Salem come into the picture, I felt sorry for her – not only had she not been ridden or had an owner for a long time, but she also hadn’t been cleaned. Could the farmer, whose field she was in, not just hose her down?

My favourite character was Jared. I think my opinion is the same as everyone else who has read this book, but he really is the dream boyfriend. And he doesn’t need to work hard to impress either Meg or me – he just does. And that’s in his personality.

I think that Tudor Robins has written what might be my favourite book and I Highly Recommend it to EVERYONE, horse lover or not, this is good for teens and adults.

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Book review - SWITCHING GEARS by Chantele Sedgwick

SWITCHING GEARS

BY

Chantele Sedgwick

Still mourning the loss of Lucas Nelson, the boy she loved in secret for years, seventeen-year-old Emmy Martin turns to her passion for mountain biking to try to fill the empty void in her life. But just when things start looking up, Emmy discovers her mom has been diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer’s. Confused and angry that her parents didn’t tell her sooner, she throws herself into mountain biking like never before.

When Cole Evans, the rich boy who usually doesn’t care about anything but himself, offers to train her for the biggest mountain biking race of the season, she accepts, determined to beat her nemesis, Whitney, and prove she’s good enough for a sponsor. The more time she spends with Cole, the more she realizes he’s different than she’d expected, and, to her surprise, she’s falling for him. Torn between the deep feelings she still has for Lucas and her growing ones for Cole, she knows she must choose a path: one offers her the chance to love again, while the other is blocked by the overwhelming heartache for the boy she lost.

As she drifts further away from her family and closer to her dream of being sponsored, a terrible accident threatens any semblance of peace and happiness she has left. Instead of closing herself off to the people she loves, Emmy must learn to rely on those she has pushed away if she’s going to have any chance of getting her life back again.

MY THOUGHTS…

*I received a copy of this book from Netgalley, in exchange for an honest review*

This is a gripping, reality which shows that you are in danger doing the simplest of things…

Emmy Martin intrigued me. She has lost her best friend, the one boy who she can’t stand likes her and her family is not as close as she thought it was. Even after all of this happening, she still pushes herself every day to keep herself fit enough to race her mountain bike. But she is always just that little bit behind Whitney, whom she has never beaten before.

I liked Cole. He seemed like a nice guy, and I think that the only reasons that Emmy didn’t like him were that he had taken her captainship on the biking team at school and that she was afraid that she might like him too.

I think that after all Emmy goes through at the end of the book, she is very lucky to be alive, let alone still able to ride her bike. I loved that through everything, Cole and Emmy’s brother were both very supportive and that Emmy's mother finally gets to see her race.

I Highly Recommend this book to anyone.

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