I know I sound like a broken record because I say this every single time I read one of these books, but I have to say it: they accuracy of the horse world and horse interactions is so good! It is everything to me!

Natalie Keller Reinert and her Eventing series is proof that you NEED to have interacted with horses in order to write a book (or series) about them (I'm looking at you, cowboy romance book authors). I find myself skipping over scenes about horses in books that have obviously been written by someone who does not know much about horses, but never with these books. It really really really does make such a massive difference in the reading experience for me (and I'm sure for every other reader who has ridden or competed or just been around horses).

Since this is the fourth book in this series, we see a lot of character development and a culmination of past character development, which I always love to see in books. I really am a character-based reader. Give me characterization and I will be happy. I did find that a few parts dragged a bit and were a tad slow, but I can forgive that because of how amazingly accurate the horse moments are.

I really do speed through this series!

Thanks to NetGalley for the e-ARC of this book in exchange for my honest review! My Goodreads review is up and my TikTok (Zoe_Lipman) review will be up at the end of the month with my monthly reading wrap-up.