Run for the Roses
by Rachel Schieffelbein
Release Date: 11/2013
by Swoon Romance
Summary from Goodreads:
Abigail Conrad has spent her whole life training for one goal: to win the roses at the Arabian
Youth Nationals. She’s given up friends, a social life, and doesn’t have time to even think
about guys -- much less date!
Now that she’s headed off to college in the fall, it’s her last chance to be a Youth National
Champion, and she won’t let anything distract her from that dream.
Except maybe Chase, the older brother of Abigail's biggest rival. He’s charming, funny,
and possibly Abigail's biggest problem. How can she focus on riding when her mind keeps
wandering to Chase’s green eyes and confident smile?
With her dream on the line, Abigail had better learn to fight her growing attraction to Chase,
or she might end up losing the roses and the guy.
Review:
Run for the Roses is only 80 pages, so I wasn't going into it expecting to have much more than a short story with a quickly played out plot line.Abigail Conrad dream is to win the Arabian Youth Nationals, and to accomplish that dream she has to give up everything friends, school dances, and pretty much any kind of social life not involving horses. As the time draws near to Nationals, she meets Chase and suddenly she is distracted and messing up in major ways. Soon she finds out that Chase is the older brother of her biggest rival Sydney. Uh-oh.
Abigail is a pretty fun character, who is pushed by her own self-resolve to follow her dream of winning Nationals. Because of the shortness of the book, you never really connect with Abigail in any way but her resolve to win Nationals. In this way, Abigail is an incredible character, not willing to let anything get in her way of winning.
You never learn anything about Chase, other than he is the older brother of her rival, he is VERY good looking, VERY rich, and extremely attracted to Abigail.
The romance between Chase and Abigail has an extreme case of insta-love, in about 60 pages they manage to date, fight, date, kiss...repeat.
The horse factor was interesting, I hadn't read another book like this one before which gave me a fresh take on the typical contemporary.
I wish this book had been longer so that I could learn more about the characters and let the romance between Chase and Abigail mature more. Other than that, this is a quick, fun read.
3/5.
***GIVEAWAY***
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About the Author
Rachel grew up in a tiny town in Minnesota. She still lives there, with her husband and
their four kids. She coaches high school speech and theater, rides Arabian horses, reads as
much as she can, and writes stories.
***Author Links***
http://rachelmarybean-writingonthewall.blogspot.com/
http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/7044030.Rachel_Schieffelbein
http://www.twitter.com/RMSchieffelbein
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Rachel-Schieffelbein-author/495759520488755
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