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Mar 24, 2021maipenrai rated this title 1 out of 5 stars
Dear Ms DiSclafani, I really wanted to like your book because I grew up on a farm with a horse and books as my best friends. Your writing style gets in the way of the story. There are more semi-colons in your book than the last 300 that…
Oct 26, 2016ArapahoeTiegan rated this title 4.5 out of 5 stars
A great story about a girl learning how to be her own person and accept herself in the wake of a great family tragedy that seems to circle around her. Thea blames herself for her family falling apart, but when she is sent away she starts…
Aug 03, 2016
What a debut novel! The writing is crisp, the plotting is on-point, and the family secret? So juicy. I have an autographed copy of this book because I adored it so much.
Jun 29, 2016tidbit7 rated this title 1 out of 5 stars
Character development is evidently not a thing in this novel. (spoilers) “With Georgie, things had simply happened, one after the next; I’d never had any control. But this time, I had control. This was just a crush.” This was the…
Jul 18, 2014
A patron review from the Adult Summer Game: "I enjoyed the way the author unraveled Thea, the main character's wrong doing which got her sent away to riding camp (suspenseful and witty). The message that parents don't always keep their…
Jul 07, 2014Juliamomma23 rated this title 4.5 out of 5 stars
I was drawn in from the beginning. It kept my attention, and I enjoyed the time setting in the Depression Era.
geezr_rdr
Apr 06, 2014geezr_rdr rated this title 3 out of 5 stars
Writing style draws you in, but somewhat lacking depth and insight. Sort of a cross between "Towelhead" and "I'd Know You Anywhere".
Cynthia_N
Mar 29, 2014Cynthia_N rated this title 3 out of 5 stars
Interesting book. It takes place during the depression but the main character is wealthy. She gets in trouble at home and is sent away to an boarding school/ horse camp. The circumstances are revealed slowly through the story but it is a…
Mar 01, 2014117newport rated this title 2 out of 5 stars
Starts out interesting, but my the last 100 pages it became predictable.
emerald2pac
Feb 17, 2014emerald2pac rated this title 2 out of 5 stars
Was a little too weird and depressing for my taste. That being said it sucks you in from the beginning with the big mystery of why she is being sent away. The book goes back and forth between the past and present and drags on for far too…
Oct 14, 2013Bearwomyn rated this title 3 out of 5 stars
Oh how I wish I had not read this book. Was it divinely written, eloquent, articulate and anecdotal? Yes. Quite. But it nicked pieces into my heart that I do not welcome. A story of a girl. A girl who wanted to much, who could not help…
Oct 14, 2013Bearwomyn rated this title 3 out of 5 stars
Oh how I wish I had not read this book. Was it divinely written, eloquent, articulate and anecdotal? Yes. Quite. But it nicked pieces into my heart that I do not welcome. A story of a girl. A girl who wanted to much, who could not help…
gracindaisy
Oct 06, 2013gracindaisy rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
After a family tragedy, a young girl is sent away to a boarding school in the Blue Ridge Mountains, the Yonahlossee Riding Camp for Girls, where she recovers and finds her true self. Stunning read; couldn’t put this one down! Recommended…
Sep 21, 2013EmilyEm rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
It?s been a long time since I?ve read a book written in first person. Thea is a girl on the cusp of womanhood who after something happens?it takes most of the book to find out what?in her family finds herself sent from her Florida home to…
Aug 06, 2013jbaker0118 rated this title 3 out of 5 stars
By far, one of the strangest books I've ever read. I was intrigued by the reviews - seemed people either gave it 5 stars or 1, and commented that they couldn't put it down or absolutely hated it. I probably fall in the middle, but find…
Jul 17, 2013becker rated this title 3 out of 5 stars
This was worth reading but not noteworthy.I thought the plot was weak.
Jul 15, 2013wendybird rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
First off : disclaimer - I am an active horsewoman, having started at age 5... that being said, this is really less about the horses & camp than a Depression-era coming of age for twin Thea Atwell, alongside a devastating family tragedy. …
Jun 20, 2013
I believe that the comments by Lauren31 described this book best. And women who have experienced the embarrassments and frustrations that come with being thrust into a cabin with other strange girls by going to a Camp Fire or Girl…
Jun 03, 2013Lauren31 rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
I adored this book. It was one of those novels where I couldn't decide if I wanted to read it quickly, to find out what happens next, or slowly to savour it. The story of Thea Atwell and the challenges she faces as a young Southern girl…