[.ca] Kentucky Sunrise (ISBN 082177462X)

Kentucky Sunrise:
I picked this book up to read while i stayed at the beach. It was very hard to follow, as i havent read the others, and rather well i dunno kinda boring. i love horses and racing more than anything in the world and it is rather obvious that the author doesnt know much about either subject. It seemed kinda repetitive and something about the story bothered me deeply...but im not sure what. if you want great horse reading buy Seabiscuit by laura H. it is a beatufully written story and interesting to follow!

Kentucky Sunrise:
I LOVE this series!! If you started with the Texas series, instead of this book, which is the last book in the series, I think you will find that these characters have a lot of depth and you become very involved with their lives. Once I started, I could not put these books down!!

Excellent Series:
I never thought about it but after I read the reviews, I guess someone who hadn't read the entire series might be lost but this is one of the best series of book I have ever read. If you start at the beginning with the Texas series the books are fantastic.

Couldn't Someone Have Said 'No Thanks'?:
Wow, every single character in this series was a coffee addict! Nah, scratch that, every single character in this series was the same character! They all had the same likes and dislikes, they all spoke the same, all were topic jumpers. Conversations did not flow, everyone spoke in the same 'tone'. How do you like a series of books where you don't like any of the main characters. The racing scenes improved with the second and third books, she must have read the reviews for the first, but still weren't great. I've never heard of a racehorse owner who races a horse in only three races then retires them to stud and expects to get top notch stud fees when her horse only ran in and won three races! Yeah, they said that there was a loophole to get around running preliminaries and just going straight to Derby, but you have to get your horse ready for the track it's racing on, ready to run against 18 other horses, ready for the crowds, etc. I didn't feel sorry for any of the characters with any of their dilemas, I felt more like they deserved what they got. Nealy, the main character, was immature and nasty to everyone around her. Emmie, her daughter, was like a seven year old child throughout the entire series, a major screw up and a major disappointment. All the characters just seemed really two dimensional, immature, and snobby rich people. Let's not forget the paragraphs I skipped due to the explaination of every detail of every food that was served for dinner, how it was made, how good it was, etc. If I want that, I'll read a cookbook! I doubt I'll ever pick up another Fern Michaels book seeing that these three, while a quick read, bored me to death and had me guffawing and rolling my eyes constantly.

AWFUL ... don't waste your money:
This book is terrible. The characters are scattered and impossible to follow, the plot (what plot?) is horribly scripted, and it's a complete waste of money and time. I'd been considering reading it for some time, and now I'm sorry I spent money on it. If you're looking for a good horse story/mystery read Tami Hoag's DARK HORSE. Tami Hoag KNOWS horses ... she's an avid competitor herself. Fern Michaels obviously knows nothing about horses or horse racing. She'd be better off writing Harlequin Romance novels ... they are short and it would be much less painful.