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Summary: Best horse book I ever read, lost it, want another copy!!!!
Review: Super book, full of correct horsey details, love rupert campbell black, characters based on real life show people seems like, I show I would know, Friends into horses liked it too. I loaned it to them and it got lost. Want another copy
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Summary: A riveting piece of work with numorus sexual climaxes.
Review: The world of show jumping was discribed as it really is. The gloss the glamore the agony and the defeats both on the course and in bed. A sexually erotic world driven by the things that make life exciting, beautiful women, studdly men, elegant horses and the pure raw exhibition and inhibitions of sex and love. A book you can not put down for fear of missing somthing. A written masterpiece that is as real as it is fiction. While reading it you will not be able to define the difference. The horses are genuinely defined and and the people come to life. This is no soap opera but a must read adventure.
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Summary: Sex, betrayal and horses. Brilliant British export
Review: There was a TV dramatization of the book, which was different in some ways from the book, most noticably the ending, but Jilly Cooper captures the reader magnificiently in her own unique style! An excellent read
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Summary: Art imitates life!
Review: This book is an incredible romance novel for anyone, but it is especially intriguing to anyone familiar with the hunter/jumper circuit both here and abroad. Although the characters in the book are "purely fictional", there are some very interesting parallels to the lives of show jumping's "old guard"! A good friend of mine that has been around the circuit a great while let me on this little secret after I read the book. Very intriguing! Nevertheless, it is a wonderful read for anyone looking for a steamy romance novel that is more believeable than the more kitschy kind with Fabio and the like on the cover. I highly reccomend it!
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Summary: x-rated saddle club
Review: This book is much better than Cooper's "Players," mostly because it has a plot and some hysterical scenes (designed to appeal to the reader's inner seventh grader). But it's basically every young adult horse book I've read, only with a terrifically horny English cast and an author who's allowed to use bad words and bad metaphors when it comes to writing sex scenes.
Here are some very familiar characters to anyone who's ever read horse lit.
Rich snobs who are outrageously nasty and get their come uppance - Check.
Spunky, sassy young horse mad girls - who are basically National Velvet with a sex drive to rival certain species of rodent. - Check.
Poor but gifted young trainer with a long festering grudge - Check.
Throw in vapid assorted other characters, and you've got a book!
Also, why does this author have such an obsession about making sure we know a character is overweight - to the point of using "fat" and its synonyms for pages on end? Just asking.
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Summary: My all-time favorite book!
Review: This is absolutely my favorite book. I'm on my third copy - the first got lost, and the second fell apart because I've read it so many times. This book(and the subsequent novels - "Rivals", "Polo", "The Man Who Made Husbands Jealous", and "Appassionata") is well-written, with characters that come alive through the author's descriptions. I can't wait to read the next one!!!
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Summary: I ABSOLUTELY LOVE THIS BOOK
Review: This is the type of book you never want to put down. I thought the characters were so well developed that I just had to know what they were doing. Even if you are not into horses, show-jumping, or not into British culture, the characters alone get inside your heart. I loved this book so much that I wish it never ended. I wish I knew all of these characters in real life. I recommend this book to everyone especially those looking for a good captivating sexy trash novel. Definitely good to bring on a long vacation.
The BEST steamy, trashy novel EVER!!!!
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Summary: Excellent and bitter
Review: Yes, Riders is good, but I have to say it had the nastiest streak of all Jilly's Rutshire books in the bitter, never-let-up rivalry between glamorous Rupert Campbell-Black and gypsy Jake Lovell. But it's like an excellent cup of coffee in its bitterness--you want to drink it anyway. It's also her least funny of the Rutshire books--which doesn't mean it isn't laden with her wry British humor, just that the darkish story tones it down a bit. At the same time--even though it's not my favorite--I reread it compulsively, enjoying the human and animal characters, the comical and poignant encounters, the way we get to see that romance-novel romances don't always end happily ever after. And Jilly's writing style, funny, evocative, based on the rhythm of life, and all delivered with a happy ease, is pure pleasure to read. She's spoiled me for Judith Krantz forever, and Danielle Steel was never in the running. If you're ready for a beach book that manages to be both lightweight and challenging, Riders would be good.
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