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Thoroughbreds and Trailer Trash
by
Bev Pettersen (Goodreads Author)
Jenna Murphy, a dedicated horse masseuse, relies on her job and street smarts to support what's most important...her younger sister. But when the Thoroughbred Wellness Center experiences a hostile takeover headed by a charming but ruthless corporate shark, both her heart and career are in jeopardy.
Kindle Edition, 273 pages
Published
March 28th 2012
by Westerhall
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>>>>UPDATE: 9/10 - This book is now FREE! I highly recommend it to contemporary romance fans. http://www.amazon.com/Thoroughbreds-T... <<<<
4.5 stars. This might be the best freebie I’ve read all year. Score!
Thoroughbreds and Trailer Trash (love that name!) was a great heartfelt contemporary romance with some suspense, humor, and fun banter between the H/h. I loved how the steamy tension kept growing from a slow burn to a hot sizzle as the relationship between the H/h c...more
4.5 stars. This might be the best freebie I’ve read all year. Score!
Thoroughbreds and Trailer Trash (love that name!) was a great heartfelt contemporary romance with some suspense, humor, and fun banter between the H/h. I loved how the steamy tension kept growing from a slow burn to a hot sizzle as the relationship between the H/h c...more
Aug 13, 2012
Emily
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First Reads
The author graciously provided a PDF copy for my review.
1) This book had a lot of horses in it
2) It was a romance
This combination makes for the perfect book. I absolutely loved it. I received the PDF format earlier in the afternoon and I finished the book in the evening.
The title is catchy and the flow was flawless.
I absolutely loved everything about this book, especially the sexual tension Pettersen provided. Derek was dreamy, and a perfect male lead in this book. I loved how stron...more
The author graciously provided a PDF copy for my review.
1) This book had a lot of horses in it
2) It was a romance
This combination makes for the perfect book. I absolutely loved it. I received the PDF format earlier in the afternoon and I finished the book in the evening.
The title is catchy and the flow was flawless.
I absolutely loved everything about this book, especially the sexual tension Pettersen provided. Derek was dreamy, and a perfect male lead in this book. I loved how stron...more
Soft-hearted masseuse Jenna Murphy mistakes corporate clean-up man Derek Burke for a construction worker at Three Brooks equine therapy center, setting the stage for emotional and occupational fireworks. She’s unqualified trailer trash, and he’s a rich stickler for certification. She offers free massages to local horses, and he’s focused on the bottom line. Attraction flares between them, but Jenna, scarred by memories of her father abusing her mother, refuses to acknowedge the depth of her feel...more
4.5 stars
BRIEF SUMMARY
Jenna does horse massages at Three Brooks Stables. She also does many of the community horses for free. Her co-workers also help the sick horses in the community on the financial back of the ranch. When the ranch goes into the "red" It's sold to Burke Industries and Derek Burke is sent to get this place in the "black". Derek moves from place to place taking over failing businesses all over the country and never looking back. He makes no attachments and no excuses for his sc...more
BRIEF SUMMARY
Jenna does horse massages at Three Brooks Stables. She also does many of the community horses for free. Her co-workers also help the sick horses in the community on the financial back of the ranch. When the ranch goes into the "red" It's sold to Burke Industries and Derek Burke is sent to get this place in the "black". Derek moves from place to place taking over failing businesses all over the country and never looking back. He makes no attachments and no excuses for his sc...more
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4.5 stars
BRIEF SUMMARY
Jenna does horse massages at Three Brooks Stables. She also does many of the community horses for free. Her co-workers also help the sick horses in the community on the financial back of the ranch. When the ranch goes into the "red" It's sold to Burke Industries and Derek Burke is sent to get this place in the "black". Derek moves from place to place taking over failing businesses all over the country and never looking back. He makes no att...more
4.5 stars
BRIEF SUMMARY
Jenna does horse massages at Three Brooks Stables. She also does many of the community horses for free. Her co-workers also help the sick horses in the community on the financial back of the ranch. When the ranch goes into the "red" It's sold to Burke Industries and Derek Burke is sent to get this place in the "black". Derek moves from place to place taking over failing businesses all over the country and never looking back. He makes no att...more
With only an eleventh grade education, Jenna Murphy, scrimped to ensure her younger sister would be the one Murphy to go to college, but living in a Stillwater West Virginia it was hard to make ends meet and her rusty trailer needed a new new roof to say nothing about her Neon rusted car needing work! Maybe she could get Wally to let her massage more horses and pay her more than twenty bucks under the table. Then Three Brooks Center was sold and the new owner wanted her college diploma.............more
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Romance and horses are my favorite things and this novel was on my to be read list for a couple of months.
Burke is a professional company reorganizer. His family's firm buys companies and fixes them up to turn a profit or for resale. They have recently purchased Three Brooks, an equestrian center, and sent in Burke to fix things up.
Jenna is an equine masseuse for Three Brooks. She lives in a broken down trailer bordering Three Brooks.
The equestrian center's new owners have an over the top obsess...more
Burke is a professional company reorganizer. His family's firm buys companies and fixes them up to turn a profit or for resale. They have recently purchased Three Brooks, an equestrian center, and sent in Burke to fix things up.
Jenna is an equine masseuse for Three Brooks. She lives in a broken down trailer bordering Three Brooks.
The equestrian center's new owners have an over the top obsess...more
This book is a blend of the Pony Pals or Saddle Club books you read as a child and the sexy romances you read now. Finally, an author who can write an equestrian themed romance novel! I found none of the errors or long winded explanations that plague similar books written by other authors. If you're a horse person that likes to read, you know what I'm talking about. For example - "She put her right foot in the stirrup and mounted." And what, ended up facing the horse's tail? Or - "The horse was...more
A-/B+
As a Kindle freebie, I didn't have high expectations for this book, and so I was happy to be pleasantly surprised at its quality Thoroughbreds and Trailer Trash is a solid contemporary romance with well-developed characters, an interesting layered plot, and complex character interactions. It's funny, poignant and honest. The characters are flawed and sometimes make decisions I don't agree with, but those decisions were always "in character" and therefor understandable.
There wasn't too much...more
As a Kindle freebie, I didn't have high expectations for this book, and so I was happy to be pleasantly surprised at its quality Thoroughbreds and Trailer Trash is a solid contemporary romance with well-developed characters, an interesting layered plot, and complex character interactions. It's funny, poignant and honest. The characters are flawed and sometimes make decisions I don't agree with, but those decisions were always "in character" and therefor understandable.
There wasn't too much...more
Jenna, spunky horse masseuse is caught stealing from her boss. Derek, rich and handsome businessman is about to fire her. Little did he know about anything else but spreadsheets and profit. All he ever does is coldly calculated to make money, having learnt to suppress his emotions very young, when his parents sent him off to boarding school. Will Jenna and her selfless love and fearless courage manage to bring his heart to see people as more than profit tools? Or will her own childhood of abuse...more
I admit it, I picked this one up solely because the title made me laugh. Although I enjoyed the book, I don't think it quite lived up to its title.
Jenna is a young woman struggling to make ends meet, supporting her sister through college and working as a horse-masseuse in a struggling enterprise. There are plenty of thoroughbreds but Jenna, quite simply, is not trailer trash.
She talks and presents like everyone else in the story. There's only one person in the entire town who is judging her, and...more
Jenna is a young woman struggling to make ends meet, supporting her sister through college and working as a horse-masseuse in a struggling enterprise. There are plenty of thoroughbreds but Jenna, quite simply, is not trailer trash.
She talks and presents like everyone else in the story. There's only one person in the entire town who is judging her, and...more
A sexy love story and horses, great combination! This guilty pleasure was a Goodreads giveaway and I made the mistake of picking this up while reading another novel. Needless to say, the other book has been untouched for the last two days while I devoured this one. There were a few technical errors that I picked up on, only because I have the opportunity to work with some pretty great horses. In this day and age, no person who is paying $100,000 per live foal in their right mind is going to enda...more
I couldn't finish this book. The main characters did my head in! Jenna lies and deceives, yet still manages to attract the gorgeous, powerful boss Derek. I wanted to seriously hurt her and kick him!
I thoroughly enjoyed this book. It was a fun read that kept me turning the pages.
Jenna has her work cut out for her. She is sending her sister Em to college, taking care of Peanuts and working as a horse masseuse at the Three Brooks Equine Center, oh and keeping men at a distance.
The Three Brooks is sold to Burke Industries and Derek Burke shows up to get the place in shape for high bread horses. Soon Jenna and Burke are bantering back and forth.
I liked the the way Bev let you get to know th...more
Jenna has her work cut out for her. She is sending her sister Em to college, taking care of Peanuts and working as a horse masseuse at the Three Brooks Equine Center, oh and keeping men at a distance.
The Three Brooks is sold to Burke Industries and Derek Burke shows up to get the place in shape for high bread horses. Soon Jenna and Burke are bantering back and forth.
I liked the the way Bev let you get to know th...more
This was a free kindle book. It was definitely a book of opposites. Thoroughbreds and trailer trash, rich and poor, educated and uneducated, reliable and unreliable. The list could go on and on. Jenna is an uneducated horse massager. The center she works for is sold and is under new management. Status of every worker seems to be at risk. Treatment of local animals for free is going to end. The changes are endless. The new, rich, smart, educated temporary overseer makes a big impact. Especially,...more
I think I'll have a crack at this one another time...because I just couldn't get into it and found myself skimming towards the end. (view spoiler)...more
Awesome! Great book!
I just finished Thoroughbreds and Trailer Trash (LOVE the title) and had to review it right away. This is my first Bev Pettersen book, but won't be the last. I loved this book. Spunky heroine, sexy hero, beautiful and interesting setting. This book was fun and a definite feel-good read.
I laughed out loud at parts, I gasped and hid my face at one part (my son was worried about me), and I teared up at others. Very fun read and I loved the horses as important plot and character...more
I just finished Thoroughbreds and Trailer Trash (LOVE the title) and had to review it right away. This is my first Bev Pettersen book, but won't be the last. I loved this book. Spunky heroine, sexy hero, beautiful and interesting setting. This book was fun and a definite feel-good read.
I laughed out loud at parts, I gasped and hid my face at one part (my son was worried about me), and I teared up at others. Very fun read and I loved the horses as important plot and character...more
Pleasant surprise. I've been reading romance for about 20 years now, and it feels like I've read all the usual formulas. So imagine my surprise when I found this book for free for my Kindle, and actually liked it! Jenna was a little irritating at times, but not because of her hesitance to fall for Burke. It bothered me more when she just caved to him, even when he was bullying her, and she knew it. Burke isn't a bad guy really, but he does some underhanded stuff, and Jenna just couldn't resist....more
Are you supposed to dislike the main character? Because I really cannot stand Jenna. She lies to the supposed love of her life, constantly. Repeatedly. Even as he espouses honesty above pretty much everything. She is manipulative, and proud in the sort of way that comes as condescending. She's constantly breaking and entering, with little compunction, and no real consequences, even when caught. She's a doormat for her sister Yet everyone in town adores her. I don't get it. I have much more sympa...more
Ebook. Jan 2013
Picked it up for the title, loved it for the story. This really has it all, humor, emotions, steamy romance and a roofer I'ld like to borrow...lol.
Jenna raises her sister after her parents are gone taking responsibility for everything and seems everyone, putting herself last time and again. Burke aka hot roofer, lol, anyways he's a strict ruthless business man with no time for personal bullshit. Boy their at each others throats then flirting then back to spitfire remarks. Its fas...more
Picked it up for the title, loved it for the story. This really has it all, humor, emotions, steamy romance and a roofer I'ld like to borrow...lol.
Jenna raises her sister after her parents are gone taking responsibility for everything and seems everyone, putting herself last time and again. Burke aka hot roofer, lol, anyways he's a strict ruthless business man with no time for personal bullshit. Boy their at each others throats then flirting then back to spitfire remarks. Its fas...more
I get "irritated" when characters in books don't communicate with each other. If you like each other, just say so! A lot of conversations that were going on in Burke and Jenna's heads should have just spilled forth from their mouths and then it would not have taken them so long to get to the inevitable conclusion of the book. After all, it is a romance and in our human "logic" of how these books should end, you know the hero and heroine are going to get together - just get together already!
Becau...more
Becau...more
I would give this a 4 1/2 if it was available. I really enjoy this authors work. She keeps me hooked and it is hard to put her books down. However, I couldn't finish this one in one sitting. This book had more of the connection between the characters than the facility for the horses. Don't get me wrong it is very good. I enjoy reading about the different aspects of horse care and the different types of therapy one can use on a horse. The chemistry between the two main characters is very intense...more
I'm a huge fan of Ms. Pettersen's books. This is my fourth one now. As usual, the story sucks me in from the get-go, keeps me guessing and wondering what's going to happen, and mixes mystery with real life very well, though this one had a lot less mystery. I was surprised. It was more of a drama, less of a mystery, though it doesn't make it any less good.
Jenna is a tough cookie who has been through so much. Her parents are dead and she's solely trying to put her sister through college...a sister...more
Jenna is a tough cookie who has been through so much. Her parents are dead and she's solely trying to put her sister through college...a sister...more
Every time I read one of those cheesy romance novels I'm a little embarrassed to find that I do enjoy them. Quite a bit actually, although it's so not appropriate for anyone considering himself a literate person. Oh well. If I had to analyze this phenomenon I'd have to admit that there is probably some escapism involved but there's also something oddly soothing to the - always same - plot pattern that will never let you down in terms of a happy ending... ^^
This story was good. I enjoyed seeing things unfold, although it was pretty predictable. It had a few surprises. The two main characters had some problems understanding each other which made it more interesting and a little tense, waiting for them to figure things out. My biggest complaint would be the explicit sex. Didn't need so much description. If you like that sort of thing, you would like this book. If not, it's not worth the read.
Thoroughbreds and Trailer Trash, despite its less-than-appealing title, was actually a wonderful read. The characters are frustrating in a wonderful way, and I really wasn't ready for the book to end. I would definitely read a follow-up novel, but I think that wouldn't really do justice to the end-note of this novel.
I cannot stand a sad book, this one ended perfectly.
I cannot stand a sad book, this one ended perfectly.
Pretty good read overall. I thought the story dragged at times but it had a good ending. Burke and Jenna were kind of bi-polar, I felt like their emotions and thoughts changed every few pages. I know love is a roller coaster sometimes but sheesh.. Grow up guys. Anyways, I would recommend this book but Patterson's Horses and Heroin was much better.
Okay, so I love this book. Like LOVED it. Bev writes characters with such depth, and it is impossible not to fall in love with them, including lovely little Peanut, the pony. I've only read one of her other novels and now and I need to gobble up the rest. The conclusion was satisfying but I so hope she does a sequel to this novel because I just want more.
This was a fun read that had you wondering if the hero and heroine would get their shit together from the beginning. There are all kinds of shit piling up against them. I am so glad they finally wised up and realized they were meant to be together. Even if it took the hero FOREVER!
I really enjoyed this book. Great dialogue, the characters were fun and for once, I didn't have to cringe about horse facts gone horridly wrong. It's so hard as a horse person to find books with horses I can get behind. I'll definitely pick up the other titles from Ms. Pettersen!
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Bev Pettersen is an award-winning writer and two-time finalist in the Romance Writers of America’s Golden Heart® Award. She competed for five years on the Alberta Thoroughbred race circuit and is an Equine Canada certified coach. She lives in Nova Scotia with her family and when she’s not writing novels, she’s riding. Visit her at http://www.bevpettersen.com
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