Created by Joanna Campbell, written by Mary Newhall Anderson
Rating: ***1/2
What will Cindy do now?
When Cindy McLean goes back to Belmont to clean out her apartment, she finds her old diary and is taken back to the days when she started racing in New York after she fled Dubai...
Find out what happened in Cindy's own words as she struggled to compete against the best male jockeys in the country. She was new to the tough Belmont trainers and had trouble getting rides. But Cindy never stopped trying, and in time she was winning big races on a filly no one else thought could run.
Now that Cindy can't ride anymore, her life has changed drastically. She'll need to tap some of that old determination as she sets of boldly in a new direction.
Reading over this blurb again I don't like it. It pretty much sums up the whole book. It could be better, way better. However on a positive note I love the cover! If you've ever read anymore with Cindy, you will see her not depicted very well on the cover. But in this one she is smiling, and looks HAPPY!
I liked this book better than most in the series. It did not get my heart soaring like others have. Mary doesn't seem to write very exciting races, but maybe that's because of the mind set Cindy was in. She wasn't a terrible character to send 168 pages with, but it did annoy me that when her shoulder hurt instead of going to the physio she just popped some pills. Seriously?? Cindy if something hurts and keeps hurting you need to get it checked. I think it could have prevented her from not being able to ride every again. Whilst recovering she could have also ridden quieter horses that don't try to pull her arms out of their sockets every second stride.
Other than that I enjoyed the book. It was surprising. Which is surprising for the Thoroughbred series. Usually about half way through I can tell what the ending is like, but this one kept me guessing.
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