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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