Ash lands a riding scholarship at a new school - but has to deal with being the new kid, and homesickness too Ashleigh Miller has landed a riding scholarship to the prestigious Linley Heights School and she's on top of the world. What horse-mad kid wouldn't want to live, learn and ride at a school where the riding arena is the classroom, the teachers wear joddies and your horse can board with you? It's hard being the new kid, though, particularly when you're homesick. Is being totally horse mad enough to help Ash survive at Linley Heights?
I started this series at the beginning, and must say that I was a bit disappointed in this book compared to the others in the series.
It was still a worthwhile read, very realistic and very enjoyable, but I found that it was slow to come to the climactic point in the story and then ended very quickly. I thought there was a bit too much fluff - I understand the funkhana set up India for disqualification and the whole Lightning bet but I think there were other ways that this could have been accomplished that didn't take up almost 20 pages.
Anyways, I am still really enjoying this series and am looking forward to the last book. 7/10 stars
Promising but they should SERIOUSLY do something about bullying and teaching the other kids tolerance.
The bully India we all knew what to expect from her even from Emily's horribly toxic family, but that germophobe Claire was a monster. So because she's a clean freak and everyone in her circle (especially idiot adults) hates horses, she thinks it's fine to harass all kinds of animal-lovers? Then harp on a pathetic anti-horse campaign? Ugh, people we found a mini-Karen.
IDC how "realistic" it is, one of these days that attitude is gonna get her in a lot of trouble someday. she'll run into someone who's not as restrained or nice as Ashleigh.