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Title: The Bridled Groom
Author: J. S. Borthwick
Narrator: Chris Thurmond
Format: Unabridged
Length: 11 hrs and 42 mins
Language: English
Release date: 02-28-13
Publisher: Audible Studios
Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 1 votes
Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Modern Detective
Publisher's Summary:
Planning their wedding at High Hope horse farm is trouble enough for teaching fellow Sarah Deane and her fiancé Dr. Alex McKenzie. But now Sarah's widowed Aunt Julia, the farm's crusty, independent owner, is receiving threatening nursery rhymes with her morning paper; a stableman's been mysteriously injured; and someone's taking pot shots at the barn.
Could the disturbing events have to do with a mining company that's out to lasso local land? Or with Tilly, a loopy neighbor who thinks it's in her stars to swap farms with Julia? Or even Julia's persistent suitor, Colonel Dodge, who's all too eager to saddle up and charge to her rescue?
Though the wedding goes off without a hitch, Sarah and Alex are reined in from their honeymoon when the stable turns up a gruesome corpse...and it doesn't take more than horse sense to recognize foul play.
Members Reviews:
Two Stars
My mistake. I don't care for "cozies" in general and this one reinforced that feeling.
Uneven
This book easily kept my interest, but at various parts I felt like I was hitting the wall in a marathon. I'm not sure why the book is as lengthy as it is. Many of the "events" such as the wedding, derby party, and horse show came off as contrived. It was as if the author struggled to imagine different scenarios to bring the suspects together for another clue to emerge. If that is the case, then what would have helped was some meaningful character development not just for the sake of writing a mystery. The chain of events should have been more seamless. The pace of the plot is very uneven, especially during the first third of the book which seems to get nowhere fast. As a reader noted in reviewing another of this author's works, detective Sarah is unmemorable, not fully developed. The fact that Sarah is a teaching fellow in English and that her husband is a doctor is wasted. They barely have presence in the story, in furthering the mystery, or in solving the crime. (The pivotal episode where Sarah gets to use her English lit background is pretty shallow.) Maybe one of the problems is that this "drawing room mystery" set in the Maine countryside makes too small of a world to create any sustained intrigue? Having said all of this, however, the book did manage to keep my attention for some reason. Very mixed review.
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Title: The Bridled Groom
Author: J. S. Borthwick
Narrator: Chris Thurmond
Format: Unabridged
Length: 11 hrs and 42 mins
Language: English
Release date: 02-28-13
Publisher: Audible Studios
Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 1 votes
Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Modern Detective
Publisher's Summary:
Planning their wedding at High Hope horse farm is trouble enough for teaching fellow Sarah Deane and her fiancé Dr. Alex McKenzie. But now Sarah's widowed Aunt Julia, the farm's crusty, independent owner, is receiving threatening nursery rhymes with her morning paper; a stableman's been mysteriously injured; and someone's taking pot shots at the barn.
Could the disturbing events have to do with a mining company that's out to lasso local land? Or with Tilly, a loopy neighbor who thinks it's in her stars to swap farms with Julia? Or even Julia's persistent suitor, Colonel Dodge, who's all too eager to saddle up and charge to her rescue?
Though the wedding goes off without a hitch, Sarah and Alex are reined in from their honeymoon when the stable turns up a gruesome corpse...and it doesn't take more than horse sense to recognize foul play.
Members Reviews:
Two Stars
My mistake. I don't care for "cozies" in general and this one reinforced that feeling.
Uneven
This book easily kept my interest, but at various parts I felt like I was hitting the wall in a marathon. I'm not sure why the book is as lengthy as it is. Many of the "events" such as the wedding, derby party, and horse show came off as contrived. It was as if the author struggled to imagine different scenarios to bring the suspects together for another clue to emerge. If that is the case, then what would have helped was some meaningful character development not just for the sake of writing a mystery. The chain of events should have been more seamless. The pace of the plot is very uneven, especially during the first third of the book which seems to get nowhere fast. As a reader noted in reviewing another of this author's works, detective Sarah is unmemorable, not fully developed. The fact that Sarah is a teaching fellow in English and that her husband is a doctor is wasted. They barely have presence in the story, in furthering the mystery, or in solving the crime. (The pivotal episode where Sarah gets to use her English lit background is pretty shallow.) Maybe one of the problems is that this "drawing room mystery" set in the Maine countryside makes too small of a world to create any sustained intrigue? Having said all of this, however, the book did manage to keep my attention for some reason. Very mixed review.