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Chestnut Hill #8
A Time to Remember
Une bande d'adolescentes passionnées d'équitation se lie d'amitié dans un pensionnat huppé où rivalités et compétition font rage. Rien ne va plus à Chestnut Hill ! Le cheval de Laurie se comporte de façon bizarre : un cavalier aurait-il cherché à tricher ? Et quelles seront les représailles ? Pendant que les rumeurs vont bon train, les amis de Mélanie ne réalisent pas qu'elle garde pour elle ses problèmes et ses petits secrets...
166 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2008
About the author
Lauren Brooke
121 books651 followersLauren Brooke grew up in a ranch in Virginia and now lives in Leicestershire, England. Her husband is a veterinarian who specializes in horses. Her books have been published by Scholastic since Mid-2000, starting with the first book of the Heartland book series. The first book of her popular Chestnut Hill series was published in 2005.
According to an interview on scholastics' website, Lauren Brooke has been riding since before she could walk. She also said she competes in a few local-level horse shows and events.
There may be some other people in books and movies named Lauren Brooke:
Amazon lists the author of "Book of spiritual regeneration" (1995) as Lauren Brooke.
IMDB.com has a record for an Actress named Lauren Brooke. Her only movie is "Wiseguys vs. Zombies" (2003) as Goat Man's Wife.
According to an interview on scholastics' website, Lauren Brooke has been riding since before she could walk. She also said she competes in a few local-level horse shows and events.
There may be some other people in books and movies named Lauren Brooke:
Amazon lists the author of "Book of spiritual regeneration" (1995) as Lauren Brooke.
IMDB.com has a record for an Actress named Lauren Brooke. Her only movie is "Wiseguys vs. Zombies" (2003) as Goat Man's Wife.
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May 17, 2020
Great book for horsey people!
May 24, 2020
Fabulous
March 17, 2016
So this one came in yesterday, and while being sick sucks, it was a nice that I could immediately dig in to this one and read it.
The girl in the main spotlight is Lani! Again we got various things happening in this one. Wavering trust between friends, mean girls plotting evil stuff (really evil, but also very stupid stuff), lots of competitions, horses, some romance (yes, finally those 2 are getting the spotlight!), and some frustrations.
Let me start with that I love that we finally have a whole bunch of competitions in this book. Normally we barely have any, or maybe one, or even the lead-up to one, but no, in this one we have 2! Which I also think were kind of needed for the character development of Malory, the team captain, and her horse. Even though the POV is on Lani, there is a lot on Malory and her horse. Is Malory able to be a captain of the team? She is quite nervous, and lots of things do happen at the competition.
It also showed us that while these are best friends forever, they do have their doubts at times, and it caused a small rift to open between Malory and Lani. I am not sure whose side to pick. On the one hand, I agree with Malory, that Lani's distrust wasn't that nice or friendly. On the other side Lani was just worried, and it has been said many times (also in other horse books) that if the rider is nervous, a horse can feel that and it can cause him/her to do stuff that they normally don't do. So it is a bit tricky.
In the end it was quite interesting to see what really was the cause to Malory's horse being all off (though it felt like a copy-paste from the previous book).
I loved Lani and Sam's time together. Those two are just adorable! I won't spoil much, but let me just say that I loved how Lani treated Sam. Unlike everyone else (while understandable, can't you all see that it is hurting this guy?) she doesn't treat him like glass. Like he is breakable. She treats him like everyone else. Like a normal guy.
I felt sorry that she had to receive so much crap over it though. :| I just wanted to tell her that what she did was perfectly all right, and that she should just continue with it!
Also Sam was pretty clear that he wasn't a glass statue, that he also wanted to start enjoying his life for once. That he was done with being sick, that he was now getting better and ready to live life again.
Patience and Lynsey were (no surprise here) the worst characters again. Dear Lord, I do wonder why they never get punished by anyone for what they do. They just seem to get away with it all, and I am kind of amazed with it. They also never seem to learn, instead just continue their bitchfest and their evil rumours and stuff. Even causing a lot of trouble in this one with what they did. I do hope that in the next books we will be getting to see some changes in this, and see that they are actually caught, or at least punished for stuff they do. :| Not sure if I will like them, even if they get some sort of redemption arc (it is a bit too late in the series for that), but at least I will be happy knowing that they got what they deserved.
All in all, this was a book full with fun things, romance, horses and much more!
Review first posted at http://twirlingbookprincess.com/
The girl in the main spotlight is Lani! Again we got various things happening in this one. Wavering trust between friends, mean girls plotting evil stuff (really evil, but also very stupid stuff), lots of competitions, horses, some romance (yes, finally those 2 are getting the spotlight!), and some frustrations.
Let me start with that I love that we finally have a whole bunch of competitions in this book. Normally we barely have any, or maybe one, or even the lead-up to one, but no, in this one we have 2! Which I also think were kind of needed for the character development of Malory, the team captain, and her horse. Even though the POV is on Lani, there is a lot on Malory and her horse. Is Malory able to be a captain of the team? She is quite nervous, and lots of things do happen at the competition.
It also showed us that while these are best friends forever, they do have their doubts at times, and it caused a small rift to open between Malory and Lani. I am not sure whose side to pick. On the one hand, I agree with Malory, that Lani's distrust wasn't that nice or friendly. On the other side Lani was just worried, and it has been said many times (also in other horse books) that if the rider is nervous, a horse can feel that and it can cause him/her to do stuff that they normally don't do. So it is a bit tricky.
In the end it was quite interesting to see what really was the cause to Malory's horse being all off (though it felt like a copy-paste from the previous book).
I loved Lani and Sam's time together. Those two are just adorable! I won't spoil much, but let me just say that I loved how Lani treated Sam. Unlike everyone else (while understandable, can't you all see that it is hurting this guy?) she doesn't treat him like glass. Like he is breakable. She treats him like everyone else. Like a normal guy.
I felt sorry that she had to receive so much crap over it though. :| I just wanted to tell her that what she did was perfectly all right, and that she should just continue with it!
Also Sam was pretty clear that he wasn't a glass statue, that he also wanted to start enjoying his life for once. That he was done with being sick, that he was now getting better and ready to live life again.
Patience and Lynsey were (no surprise here) the worst characters again. Dear Lord, I do wonder why they never get punished by anyone for what they do. They just seem to get away with it all, and I am kind of amazed with it. They also never seem to learn, instead just continue their bitchfest and their evil rumours and stuff. Even causing a lot of trouble in this one with what they did. I do hope that in the next books we will be getting to see some changes in this, and see that they are actually caught, or at least punished for stuff they do. :| Not sure if I will like them, even if they get some sort of redemption arc (it is a bit too late in the series for that), but at least I will be happy knowing that they got what they deserved.
All in all, this was a book full with fun things, romance, horses and much more!
Review first posted at http://twirlingbookprincess.com/
March 6, 2014
amazing book!! this books is viewed from Lani's perspective. i love how this book is relatable how Lani starts to like Honey's twin brother. she also starts to face challenges with 2 of her friends Honey and Malory who think Lani is lying to them. Lani undergoes friendship problems and it's a great book to see Lani's perspective on things. i think she's my favourite character because she has a great sense of humour and it's nice to see the way she reacts to things like boys, trust, friendship and her friends. this is such a fantastic book. after i finished reading it for the first time i started reading it again straight away!
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February 15, 2015I read this book years ago when I was in primary and early middle school. I absolutely adored these books, yes sometimes I was a typical horse-loving-girl. But I've grown out of this obviously but I like to remeber the times I've read this and waiting for the next book to come out.
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January 25, 2015I want to read these series! Now I'm on the phantom stallion wild horse island series :-)
May 22, 2015
Young-adult
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