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Post by tintin on Sept 5, 2013 14:10:30 GMT 1
This is the second book in the series about Amy and her miscreant mount, Clown,
An awful lot happens in this book and the familiar characters from the first book, both equine and human, have considerable problems to deal with.
Blister Parkin and his pony, OβMalley, play a big part in this book. Blister has a lot of problems at home and may lose his horse he also has some bad news for Amy in that Clown may be a missing or stolen pony. Amy also has to face the possibility she might have to move house also putting her life with Clown at risk. Her brother Leo now has a snake.
The events all take place around a team show jumping competition that the group have entered and invited Blister to join them in β not without reservations.
The writing is very good both in the descriptions of the every day, there is a very nice passage at the beginning where they are out on a hack and a horse casts a shoe, and the highly dramatic, there is a nerve wracking, and unusual, chase at the end.
The show jumping is well described as are the characters β particularly those like Dagmar and Blister with difficult backgrounds. With such a good cast of characters there is plenty of potential for subsequent books to stay fresh.
Like the first book it is very much about friendship and getting along together. In this book there is a bit of a theme of when do we tell the truth, how much of it do we tell and how do we tell it.
One question I cannot answer β has Clown started to mellow, or are we just getting used to him?
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