I received a free copy of this book from the author in exchange for an honest review.

All Heart continues the story of July Carter as she settles back into life helping her father train racing courses. Life is a bit different for July now she has a new boyfriend, an ex-racer horse of her own to turn into a dressage prodigy and now her father is a freelance trainer as well meaning a flurry of new horses to fall in love with and agonise over.

This story was almost as good as Stay the Distance and it felt so great to be back with July and Kali and laughing over Lighter’s antic. July has some good character development over this book and she really sorts some things out that were still a bit unresolved at the end of the last book. July is going through a lot of things that would be familiar to other younger readers just out of high school - she’s in an in-between place and is trying to figure out where the best place for her is. Is it remaining at the stables, going to NYU with her best friend or could it be something else.

While July figures out her future, there’s also stuff going on with Beck. I did hate seeing them go through a bit of awkwardness as I really love these two together and weirdly, it made me want to read Stay the Distance again and I think once I’m off my book buying ban in a few months, I’ll order a physical copy for myself.

July learns her lessons - in both the horse world and her personal life. She knows when she’s wrong and when to apologise or admit that she was wrong and it’s a really admirable trait in her. She learned to sit down and talk when she needed to and to take a breath and believe in herself at other times.

I’m already looking forward to another book because I can’t wait to see how Kali gets on!