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teresab78's review
4.0
****Reviewed for Prism Book Alliance®****
I love horses, so when I saw Hoofbeats come up, complete with a sexy horse shifter, I had to grab it! I am so glad I did. It had great pacing, interesting backstories, likable main characters and suitably villainous bad guys.
I loved Derek as a horse as well as a man; there was enough animal in his thoughts to make it interesting and show him as more than either of his parts. I also loved Cole and his care and love of horses. It made for a strong relationship between the two.
The villainy part of the story was a little melodramatic at times, but it was entertaining. The world of the made up horse show was unique and I would have liked to see such pageantry in real life. Despite some murder, sabotage, blackmail and mayhem, in the end we get our Happily-Ever-After.
If you are a lover of horses and are looking for a different kind of shifter book, this may just be what you want!
I love horses, so when I saw Hoofbeats come up, complete with a sexy horse shifter, I had to grab it! I am so glad I did. It had great pacing, interesting backstories, likable main characters and suitably villainous bad guys.
I loved Derek as a horse as well as a man; there was enough animal in his thoughts to make it interesting and show him as more than either of his parts. I also loved Cole and his care and love of horses. It made for a strong relationship between the two.
The villainy part of the story was a little melodramatic at times, but it was entertaining. The world of the made up horse show was unique and I would have liked to see such pageantry in real life. Despite some murder, sabotage, blackmail and mayhem, in the end we get our Happily-Ever-After.
If you are a lover of horses and are looking for a different kind of shifter book, this may just be what you want!
fantasyliving's review
2.0
2.5 Hears
Hoofbeats was a very unique experience for me. Horse shifter Derek Dancing Hawk was unique. I liked him as a character but I felt he was disconnected and naive about the community he belonged to. I didn’t quite understand how the community worked. There was talk of training as a boy, to become a guardian to wild horses, about how close he was with his grandmother, but there still seemed to be a disconnect between the family members, like once you were trained up, you were on your own, unless there was trouble, and then suddenly you were staring at shifter enforcers who would kill you because you did something wrong. It didn’t really gel with me. Some work on the world building was needed for me to understand the why’s of it all.
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Hoofbeats was a very unique experience for me. Horse shifter Derek Dancing Hawk was unique. I liked him as a character but I felt he was disconnected and naive about the community he belonged to. I didn’t quite understand how the community worked. There was talk of training as a boy, to become a guardian to wild horses, about how close he was with his grandmother, but there still seemed to be a disconnect between the family members, like once you were trained up, you were on your own, unless there was trouble, and then suddenly you were staring at shifter enforcers who would kill you because you did something wrong. It didn’t really gel with me. Some work on the world building was needed for me to understand the why’s of it all.
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