More reviews by Merv

Let’s start with it being an audiobook. This book is the first of the (current count) ten books from this series and I don’t think I’ll ever read it if it’s that long. Guess what, of course, being an audiobook changed my view about it and now I’d like to read all the 10 books!

The narrator, Ann Marie Gideon, did a great job. Her voice is really soothing. SOOO soothing that it never failed to put me in sleep. Yea, I was on Chapter 28 and this book has 33 Chapters. I slept and woke up with a finished book. I have to replay it over again. One thing that I want to emphasize is her Guy Voice (she had to do all the voices) because it doesn’t sound so masculine and the book describes those guys as masculine. Completely understandable why it went like that, but still. Overall, it was amazing!

The story revolves around a new student, Brooklyn. She’s now studying at The Rosewoods Academy with handsome guys and model-like ladies whose families are really wealthy. It’s our kind of fantasy. It has a lot of cute people in it like: Jared, Will, Brady! Also things like horses and a ball. Is that their promenade or welcoming party or a winter something? I’m not really sure but there’s dance and dresses. ( )

I was pleasantly surprised by this book.

I love horse books, I love boarding school books (remind me of my favourite Enid Blyton books growing up), so I was pre-programmed to like this book. However, it exceeded my expectation, and I was sucked in by solidly defined characters, breezy writing, fun plot and great readability.

Horse crazy teens are going to love this series, and other middle aged people will reminisce about when they were horse crazy teens as they read this. ( )

I was pleasantly surprised by this book.

I love horse books, I love boarding school books (remind me of my favourite Enid Blyton books growing up), so I was pre-programmed to like this book. However, it exceeded my expectation, and I was sucked in by solidly defined characters, breezy writing, fun plot and great readability.

Horse crazy teens are going to love this series, and other middle aged people will reminisce about when they were horse crazy teens as they read this. ( )

I was pleasantly surprised by this book.

I love horse books, I love boarding school books (remind me of my favourite Enid Blyton books growing up), so I was pre-programmed to like this book. However, it exceeded my expectation, and I was sucked in by solidly defined characters, breezy writing, fun plot and great readability.

Horse crazy teens are going to love this series, and other middle aged people will reminisce about when they were horse crazy teens as they read this. ( )

The author of this book sent me a free copy and assured me that I would hate it. Well, goddamnit, I didn't. I expected to hate it, not because the author told me that I would, but because I'm not a fan of romance novels at all. In fact, I avoid them like the plague. I can't fucking stand romance novels.

I hate them because, for the most part, they're just cardboard characters doing stupid things for love. Well, this book doesn't have any cardboard characters. The characters are real, full of life, and even unpredictable. I never knew what they were going to do. I tried predicting the outcome, and failed at every turn.

This story is about a teenage girl named Brooklyn who's sent to a boarding school, because her parents had too much money, and frankly, they're bored of her. So, they shipped her off to America, all the way from London, because the farther teenagers are away from their parents, the better.

Brooklyn gets the most awesome roommate. She's a rich e-commerce girl, named Emmie, who gives away everything she owns to charity, because her parents are such wealthy fucks, that they find the idea of charity offensive. So, when Emmie gives things away, she's actually just being a rebel, like every other goddamn teenager. But it's definitely a unique way of rebellion.

Unfortunately, this book isn't about Brooklyn and Emmie's torrid gay love affair. I was hoping for it, that's for sure. They had such chemistry. They belonged together, goddamnit.

Instead, the story is about horses, and their huge cocks. And one boy's love affair with his sexy horse. Wait, no it's not. Sorry. Again, that's what I hoped it would be about. Because, at one point, it's made clear that one boy does like his horse way too much. So, who knows what happens behind the closed barn, right? I mean, I'm just saying... That guy is totally fucking his horse when nobody is looking.

And then there's the panty raid. At least 1/3 of this book is dedicated to a panty raid. The boys from the all-boy school down the road, sneak in and steal the undies from the all-girl school. Then, the girls go steal the boy's undies, because what else is there to do?

Goddamnit. That's not 1/3 of a book. That's a chapter. Maybe two. I can only read so much about panty stealing. I mean, maybe if they had stuck the girl panties up a horse's ass. Or tied up one of the boys with girl panties, and sexually tortured him with a riding crop. That may have been worth 80 pages or so. But not just panty stealing. Come on... ( )