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Title: Horse porn?
Review: I admit I bought this book because I liked Water for Elephants by the same author.Also, in the interests of full disclosure I am a horse nut, so for me there was the added incentive of the horse theme in this book.However, this is basically a standard issue woman's romance story, predictable from the beginning, and certianly nothing I'd ever read in the normal course of events. But I was tricked into perservering by the hope that there would at least be some nice horse riding action. But no.Very little of horse interest, a heroine who is mostly a selfish temper tantrum witing to happen, an amazing lack of self-awareness, and loads of tempestuous emotional blow-outs: this book is like the fever dream of a fourteen year old.Gruen has definitely grown as an author since this was published. May she continue to do so.
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