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Thoroughbred #37
Star in Danger
Don't Miss the Exciting Adventures of a New Generation of Thoroughbred Horses and Riders at Whitebrook Farm!
Will Christina ever see Star again?
Christina Reese is worried. She's been taking care of Wonder's Star ever since his dam, Wonder, died. Now Star has been sent to Townsend Acres, and Christina misses him terribly. She dreamed of eventing Star in the Olympics one day, but Brad Townsend has already started training him to race.
The only way for Christina to be near her colt is to work with Brad. But Star has changed since he left Whitebrook. The once sweet and gentle colt has become wild and difficult to manage. Can Christina save her beloved Star from being ruined?
Read the Wonder's Legacy trilogy from Thoroughbred and experience the powerful bond between a determined girl and a very special colt. If you love horses, then you'll love these books!
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First published October 1, 1999
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September 14, 2024
When a series that is so unrealistic suddenly tries to address reality, it's kind of shocking. That's how I felt when Brad Townsend was giving Christina a personal tour of Townsend Acres. It described a modern American Thoroughbred stud farm and racing stable ... or, at least, modern for 1999, when this was published.
So, ghostwriter Alice Leonhardt took a Blugrass stud farm chartered bus tour. Good for her.
Otherwise, this book was the same old laughable garbage, seemingly set in some alternate universe to even the universe that the Throughbred series had for the first 40 books or so. If you've never read a Thoroughbred book before, don't start with this. You'll be lost in a New York minute. I read all of the previous books and I was STILL lost.
There were the depressing continuity errors, of course. Christina is astounded that Townsend Acres has twelve stallions. She then notes that Whitebrook has only four. She does not, however, name them.
No, it doesn't have only four. It has at least six. What happened to the other studs?
Then again, Christina was never the smartest bunny in the hutch.
Christina tries to compete with Sterling while worrying her rich little self silly over Star, stuck at Townsend Acres because Ashleigh blames Star for Wonder's death. Now, the last book did nothing to address the subject of prolonged grief. Granted, there wasn't enough space to do it. So, logically, that would make THIS the book to take a good look at prolonged grief.
But this is the Thoroughbred series, where nothing logical happens. Silly me for hoping otherwise. Grief is something everyone has to deal with. I find it hard to believe that the teen girls this series was marketed towards would never have experienced grief in their lives.
The book's message is that, you just have to put up with a grieving person until they suddenly snap out of it. There is no mention of mental health care, of trying to talk about it ... just ignore it, and eventually it will go away.
That's not how real life works, folks.
As to Sterling, she gets more and more ignored by Christina. Even her boyfriend Parker Townsend notices. Christina used to own Wonder's second to last foal, Wonder's Legacy, who she RUTHLESSLY DEMANDED HER FAMILY GIVE UP in order to get her mitts on Sterling. Now, she's tossed Sterling aside for Star. She even comes RIGHT OUT and says that Star is more important than Sterling.
What a bitch. And she's supposed to be the protagonist in a horse-centric series?
A note about Wonder's Legacy. This is the middle book in the Wonder's Legacy trilogy ... which has absolutely nothing to do with the horse Wonder's Legacy. He's not even mentioned. Not even a murmer behind her back from disgruntled employees at Whitebrook who clearly loved Wonder's Legacy. The idiot publishers did special branding for this trilogy ... while completely unaware of what when on in that series.
The lack of care given to the readers of this series by HarperCollins is breathtaking.
Christina decides to go into the lion's den and work at Townsend Acres just to be near Star. She has one moment of clarity when wondering why Brad insisted on giving her a personal tour. She should've been suspicious.
But, this tantalizing mystery is left dangling. If a halfway decent writer wrote the series, Brad would be trying to impress Christina because he wants to shag her. That would be perfect revenge on both his son AND Ashleigh. Brad hates them both. He's also big on revenge, or at least getting the last laugh.
What a much better book this could've been. If a bad writer like myself could see how to rewrite this book, that shows you how much it stinks.
And let's just take a gander at that God-awful cover, shall we? It looks like a collage done by a stoned 12 year old using the first version of Paint on a RadioShak TRS-80. And I'm being generous. But this is the worst cover in the entire series, by a Secretariat in the Belmont furlong.
So, ghostwriter Alice Leonhardt took a Blugrass stud farm chartered bus tour. Good for her.
Otherwise, this book was the same old laughable garbage, seemingly set in some alternate universe to even the universe that the Throughbred series had for the first 40 books or so. If you've never read a Thoroughbred book before, don't start with this. You'll be lost in a New York minute. I read all of the previous books and I was STILL lost.
There were the depressing continuity errors, of course. Christina is astounded that Townsend Acres has twelve stallions. She then notes that Whitebrook has only four. She does not, however, name them.
No, it doesn't have only four. It has at least six. What happened to the other studs?
Then again, Christina was never the smartest bunny in the hutch.
Christina tries to compete with Sterling while worrying her rich little self silly over Star, stuck at Townsend Acres because Ashleigh blames Star for Wonder's death. Now, the last book did nothing to address the subject of prolonged grief. Granted, there wasn't enough space to do it. So, logically, that would make THIS the book to take a good look at prolonged grief.
But this is the Thoroughbred series, where nothing logical happens. Silly me for hoping otherwise. Grief is something everyone has to deal with. I find it hard to believe that the teen girls this series was marketed towards would never have experienced grief in their lives.
The book's message is that, you just have to put up with a grieving person until they suddenly snap out of it. There is no mention of mental health care, of trying to talk about it ... just ignore it, and eventually it will go away.
That's not how real life works, folks.
As to Sterling, she gets more and more ignored by Christina. Even her boyfriend Parker Townsend notices. Christina used to own Wonder's second to last foal, Wonder's Legacy, who she RUTHLESSLY DEMANDED HER FAMILY GIVE UP in order to get her mitts on Sterling. Now, she's tossed Sterling aside for Star. She even comes RIGHT OUT and says that Star is more important than Sterling.
What a bitch. And she's supposed to be the protagonist in a horse-centric series?
A note about Wonder's Legacy. This is the middle book in the Wonder's Legacy trilogy ... which has absolutely nothing to do with the horse Wonder's Legacy. He's not even mentioned. Not even a murmer behind her back from disgruntled employees at Whitebrook who clearly loved Wonder's Legacy. The idiot publishers did special branding for this trilogy ... while completely unaware of what when on in that series.
The lack of care given to the readers of this series by HarperCollins is breathtaking.
Christina decides to go into the lion's den and work at Townsend Acres just to be near Star. She has one moment of clarity when wondering why Brad insisted on giving her a personal tour. She should've been suspicious.
But, this tantalizing mystery is left dangling. If a halfway decent writer wrote the series, Brad would be trying to impress Christina because he wants to shag her. That would be perfect revenge on both his son AND Ashleigh. Brad hates them both. He's also big on revenge, or at least getting the last laugh.
What a much better book this could've been. If a bad writer like myself could see how to rewrite this book, that shows you how much it stinks.
And let's just take a gander at that God-awful cover, shall we? It looks like a collage done by a stoned 12 year old using the first version of Paint on a RadioShak TRS-80. And I'm being generous. But this is the worst cover in the entire series, by a Secretariat in the Belmont furlong.
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October 24, 2025
Childhood favourite series, giving all four stars unless it was a favourite.
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