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Thoroughbred #69
Melanie's Double Jinx
This 13 year old equestrian series is still running strong as it publishes it's 69th title!
Melanie and Image are back at Whitebrook after Brad Townsend's mysterious turn–around, abruptly letting her take the filly away from Townsend Acres. Even though Image is out of Brad's reach now, she still isn't really safe. Clouding her prospects is the fabled jinx––no horse that's won the Kentucky Cup Juvenile has ever won the Kentucky Derby. Has Melanie jinxed her Jinx?
176 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published December 28, 2004
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October 1, 2024
If you've been paying attention to the small handful of reviews I've written for the Thoroughbred series (and if you have, I love you!) you will remember that I am not exactly a fan of the series. I was in my 20s when the series started. I gave up after the first 12 or 13 books. Last year (or was it the year before?) I read three or four books in the Christina and Sterling phase of the series and declared that I had finally given up on Thoroughbred.
Well, a bad book series featuring horses seems to keep cropping up in my life like herpes, only this time I enjoyed scratching the itch. (I think I mixed a metaphor there, but that's just what reading a Thoroughbred book will do to you.) I noticed that most of the Thoroughbred books left in my county library system were either sold, fell apart completely or were stolen. They only have about five left, and this was one of them. I thought I'd read it before it vanished.
How well did I like the book? I went on eBay and bought four of them. And placed a bid on a lot of nine more.
What can I say? I've got problems. I freely admit that.
Considering the latest book in the series I'd read was Dylan's Choice way back at #30, reading a book that comes 39 books later was just a WEE bit of a culture shock. I could not absorb all of the backstories. But I was interested enough in this book to buy 4 (and possibly 9 more) previous books just to see what the heck happened while my back was turned.
The cover and the back blurb hints that the main focus of the book is Melanie's romance with Jazz (Melanie is now old enough to DATE??? And finds a ROCK STAR???), but fortunately that is not the case. The main problem is that Perfect Image and Hi Jinx, the two horses that Melanie loves, are to be sold. This harkens back to the main conflict in the very first four books of the series where Ashleigh always has the Damocles sword of Wonder's being sold held over her.
And now I'm dying to know what happened in the 39 previous books.
Hi. My name is Rena. I'm a horse book addict.
EDIT Oct. 2024: Oh, how I wish I had a time machine, to go back to myself and say that those previous 39 books were not worth it. Ashleigh's Christmas Miracle should've been a hint. What a horrible series this turned out to be.
Well, a bad book series featuring horses seems to keep cropping up in my life like herpes, only this time I enjoyed scratching the itch. (I think I mixed a metaphor there, but that's just what reading a Thoroughbred book will do to you.) I noticed that most of the Thoroughbred books left in my county library system were either sold, fell apart completely or were stolen. They only have about five left, and this was one of them. I thought I'd read it before it vanished.
How well did I like the book? I went on eBay and bought four of them. And placed a bid on a lot of nine more.
What can I say? I've got problems. I freely admit that.
Considering the latest book in the series I'd read was Dylan's Choice way back at #30, reading a book that comes 39 books later was just a WEE bit of a culture shock. I could not absorb all of the backstories. But I was interested enough in this book to buy 4 (and possibly 9 more) previous books just to see what the heck happened while my back was turned.
The cover and the back blurb hints that the main focus of the book is Melanie's romance with Jazz (Melanie is now old enough to DATE??? And finds a ROCK STAR???), but fortunately that is not the case. The main problem is that Perfect Image and Hi Jinx, the two horses that Melanie loves, are to be sold. This harkens back to the main conflict in the very first four books of the series where Ashleigh always has the Damocles sword of Wonder's being sold held over her.
And now I'm dying to know what happened in the 39 previous books.
Hi. My name is Rena. I'm a horse book addict.
EDIT Oct. 2024: Oh, how I wish I had a time machine, to go back to myself and say that those previous 39 books were not worth it. Ashleigh's Christmas Miracle should've been a hint. What a horrible series this turned out to be.
July 12, 2007
truly the best book i've ever read. i finished it in 2 hrs!!!!
July 24, 2011
Perfect for young girls to read. Relationships are hard but this book is a good example that they can be resolved simply by facing the facts and thinking with your head a little more than your heart.
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