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Star's Chance (Thoroughbred)

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The series has REALLY gone downhill! I used to love them and would rush to the store the day it came out, now I just wait until someone else has to go and ask them to bring it home! The authors don't seem to have read the bookis before - leaving me wondering what happened to this and that! I think the series began to go downhill when Christina gave up eventing! and Sterling! She gave up a wonderful horse that her parents loved to get her than just sold her to go to racing! Her dream was always eventing and Sterling and then she just switched. I wish the 2 orginal authors would go back to writing them. But I keep reading them thinking every hill goes down but ALWAYS goes back up! and I hope this hill goes back up quickly! (hint to all authors - read every book in a series before writing another one in that series) I know that they are tring hard but the series just isn't has fun to read ~ I don't mind putting them down to do something else when before I would sit down and read straight though it NO MATTER WHAT WAS GOING ON around me! (making my mom mad)lol! Any way this is just my opinion and if you haven't read to book/series you really should!

I haven't read this yet, but I just want to say that when Christina gave up jumping for racing I was SOOOOOO upset! I am 16 years old, but I love these books... or at least I did. They're still good, but Christina is turning into an Ashleigh clone!!! Dont get me wrong, I love Ashleigh, but this is the new generation!! I think it would be good if the new characters (Christina, Parker, Melanie, Kevin) had different personalities than the ones before. Its like, Christina is the new Ashleigh, and Melanie is the new Samantha. I compete in jumping some, and I love it a lot more than racing, but I do like to read about racing. I think the series would have been great if Melanie was the one racing and Christina had stayed with jumping. She is just like Ashleigh! She even looks like her!! I thought she had blond hair! I loved the book "Ashleigh's Christmas Mirical", when Christina was into jumping. I mean, I know that Parker loves jumping, but I like reading about other female jumpers. So, please, do something, bring back the old Christina that was in "Ashleigh's Christmas Mirical"!!!!! One good thing about the new books, I love Christina and Parker as a couple!!!

I am simply annoyed with the entire Star thing. Why do they always either have to recover completely or die? Why can't Star just be non retrainable and have to be retired? Then maybe Christina can get Sterling back. Or is stupid Star the new Horse of her Dreams? I mean, look at the past! Sterling was her dream horse! Now Christina never even remembers her!! All it is is STAR STAR STAR And I am sick of it! Authors, please listen to me, MAKE STERLING A STAR AGAIN!!!

ALright...well, I have been reading the T-Bred books ever since they first came out. Joanna Campbell was awesome as the writer...I couldn't wait to get on to the next book. But the series has been going down hill...and right now I have no motivation to read them anymore. Characters just are not as developed as they used to be...and I mean both human and equine. Star's Chance was a good book...as they all were...but I have pretty much given up on any hope that they will be as good as they used to. Sorry...but that is my opinion.

I have been reading all the Thoroughbred books for as long as I can remember. But I have to say that since other people have been writting the series it has gone down hill. BUT I'm not saying that the books are bad they writters just need to stop writting books so fast. They need to stop and go back and read the books about Wonder and her days. They need to go back and remember how they made the reader feel. To me the writters are just wanting to put new books out at any cost. BUT the books still are okay.

I have enjoyed all the Thoroughbred books so far, excypt for this one. It was very boring and it took forever to end. I usually finish a Thoroughbred book in a day, but this one took me at least two weeks. I'm tired of everything always working out for the characters. The books have become very predictable. Like when you read this you know what is going to happen to Star(which I won't reveal). I'm really glad the next book was on Cindy. That book was wonderful, but do recommend to read this book if you keep up with the series only so in the future books you will understand what is going on!

I havent read the book yet, but have something to say. Everybody is right. The series has gone way down hill since Joanna Campbell/Karen Bentley left (Karen wrote the series when Cindy appeared). I have to say that Cindy has changed, alot! She seems sad about something, and a thought hit me when she was looking at the photo of her on Champion in Dubia in Fallen Star. Notice how Champion was not named as a stallion at Whitebrook, but Glory was? I think that Cindy, Max, Champion, and Honor somehow got into an accident, and Cindy was the only one that survived. That is why she left, and that is why she hates being at Whitebrook. It's just a thought, and of course the novel has to be written yet. Anyway, the story line has been getting better. I hated all the books written after Cindy's Honor, except Without Wonder and on. The series had started with racing, and should stick with racing, not eventing, and dressage, etc. And whatever happend to Wonders Legacy? If you would like to email me - spiderdragon@hotmail.com

I think the seires has gone a bit down hill since Joanna stopped writing but, the writers are still coming up with books that the readers want to read. their recent plot lines have been excellent and I hope they keep them up. I do wish they would talk about some of the other horses that were racing and retired a generation before, like Honor and Champion. The Ashleigh books were great until some else took over them. They have gone downhill, however, alot of people don't realize how hard it must be for those other writeers to try and fill Joanna's shoes. She set the tone for an awsome seires and if she's reading this, I would like her to know she did an awsome job with the seires. I also wish her well in her life and hope she will have a long and happy one. This book sounds really great and I hope all of u out there who love the Thoroughbred seires will continue to read and support it 100%. Thanx

Wonder's Star has finally recovered from the disease that halted his promising racing career at Belmont. The vets are baffled at his amazing recovery and everyone at Whitebrook is celebrating his comeback. Christina Reese is overjoyed that her beloved colt is alive, and she still has secret dreams of winning the Kentucky Derby with him. Christina can't wait until Star can race again, but Star doesn't seem to care. Then Star starts behaving horribly. Christina knows he just isn't listening to her and she tries everything she can think of to bring back the extrordinary bond that she had with the colt before he got sick. But she draws the line at her boyfriend, Parker Towsend's, crazy suggestion of taking Star to Lyssa Hynde's ranch in Montana. But Star gets worse. One day Christina is looking at the damage he has recently done and she gives in. Lyssa has lots of helpful suggestions but Christina won't try anything for fear of losing Star. It will take a miracle or a mountain adventure to bring Christina and Star together again.

This book was not one of my favorites in the series so far--A Horse Called Wonder, Sierra's Steeplechase, Pride's Challenge--but it is one of the most important of the books about Christina and Star. You should read it anyway, though. (...)

Well, I have to say that they have done it again, they created a book that was absolutly disgusting and an insult to the whole Throughbred series. Stars Chance was disgusting, but the whole series has really gone down the drain since the two original authors stopped writing it. What happened to horses such as Leap of Faith, Wonders Legacy, Foxy? Or then again what happened to those so crucial characters earlier in the series, such as Dylan, Parker, and Cindy? The abscence of the characters was a major blow to the series, but it was mainly the fact that the writers stopped getting the broader point of view in the books. The books now center usually on one character and one horse the whole entire time, and that takes out all of the fun. What happens at Whitebrook when Christina is gone, what about the other Derby hopefuls at Whitebrook, Parker is Christinas boyfriend, but she never sees him, and barely talks to him. These books have really become absolutly horrible, and I am having second thoughts on reading the next one in the series. All I can say is that Joanna better come back and start writing again, because these amateurs have no idea how too.