I think if you love horses and enjoyed the Hunger Games, you'd really like this book. I think if you enjoy a good race and creepy, man-eating water horses, you'll like this book. I certainly had fun listening to the audio book!

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Is it just me, or does it feel like Puck did NOT practice enough at all to even come close to winning the race? Did she even practice on the beach more than the once? I kept thinking, "Okay, she needs to start pushing herself and Dove if they're even hoping to finish the race," but it never happens! It was like someone glancing at a notebook and then acing a super-hard test but not being known as a genius or anything.

Tthe stakes are pretty high and she has some major disadvantages. I just can't believe that with her small amount of practicing, a little bit of gossip, some tutelage from The Horse Whisperer Sean, and a pony (horse!) would be able to win against a hell-bent Mutt, tall, crushing, ravenous, crazed capall uisce, on the sand against a town full of sexist men.