Chasing Blue

These are the best horse-girl-drama series in the world! I promise you will love them! I highly recommend them to any horse-lover or not! These are the best!

My mom read somewhere that this series was supposed to be like The Clique with horses. My mom wouldn't let me read those books because she said the girls were too focused on clothes and money. But she read Chasing Blue and said I could read it. These books are NOT like the Clique. The girls are normal and they're not obsessed with shoes and clothes. Sasha loves lip gloss instead. And I didn't read Take the Reins first, but I'm getting it now. This is a great book and anyone who likes horses or doesn't will love it.

i <3333 this book! she came to my school and it was cool to meet a writer. i love her books so much.

I read Chasing Blue in a couple of hours. I couldn't stop reading! There is MAJOR drama from the first page and the entire pace of the book is super fast. There's a great balance of horse scenes and boy/girl stuff. I loved the addition of new characters and just loved this book so much. The ending...OMG. I need Behind the Bit right now, LOL. At least there was a chapter of Behind the Bit in the back of Chasing Blue. That was cool. Definitely better than The Saddle Club. And I've read all of those.

I have really high hopes for this series, even more so now that I've read the second installment, because it has definitely delivered. Heather and Sasha are teammates at Canterwood Crest, but they're also social rivals. Mainly, they just don't get along. So when it's announced that Canterwood is going to compete in this regional show, and Heather and Sasha are forced to partner up for practice, they're forced to face honesty. This shouldn't be that big of a deal, but we're talking about a horse book here. Honesty in most horse books is horrible. So when the girls in the advanced team at Canterwood Crest are told to grade each other on a jumping exercise, and Heather is the one person who is brutally honest, and Sasha is forced to agree with her even about her own (not a perfect ten, I'll say that right now) riding...I didn't know what to do except blink at the page. This portion of the book I loved, to be honest. Now let's talk about the boys. A big secondary plotline of this book is a Valentine's Day dance that inevitably becomes the scene for the book's climax. Sasha is still in pre-teen love with Jacob, but Jacob keeps hanging out with Heather for seemingly no reason, rocking Sasha's tween love life to the core. Then there's this other guy, Eric, who likes Sasha and is creating tension between Sasha and her friend, Callie, who also likes Eric. It is definitely a seventh grade soap opera. Granted, it's been a long time since I was twelve, so I can't begin to judge what is going on here, but know that things don't exactly come out in Sasha's favor by the end of the book. Chasing Blue ends by giving Sasha some things to fix in the next book. Relationships will be tested, friendships have to be mended, and basically I always respect any middle grade horse book that doesn't try to tack on a happy ending in the last chapter of an angst-filled drama fest. Chasing Blue refreshes the old nice girl vs. mean girl routine and gives you more to look forward to in the series. Wonderful horse book -- definitely not to be missed by any equine obsessed girl.