Animal Rescue

As always I loved Jilly's work, there was a perfect combination of humour mixed with a little bit of naughtiness. You really find yourself routing for your favourite characters and hating those that you are meant to.

A fun read for any time really. ( )

While I did love it, it needed a thorough edit and felt a lot grimmer than previous books. Rather lovely though. ( )

I'm a relative newcomer to the world of Jilly Cooper, until reading Jump! the only book I had read of hers was Wicked! When I saw she had a new book coming out I knew it would be the next book of hers I chose.

Jump! is a return to the world of horse racing, bringing back much loved characters as well as introducing a whole raft of new ones. The pace varies throughout the book, I felt that at times it plodded along beautifully giving the characters time to develop and then with the turn of a page it would begin to pick up and race along for a while before steadying back down. I loved this aspect of the book, I think it worked very well particularly as the book is so long.

I fell in love with far too many characters to begin to talk about them all. I felt like I really got to know the characters well and I really cared about what happened to them. So many times I found myself wanting to shout at characters, particularly Etta's selfish children. I found the characters to be believable, there were many who could have turned into stereotyped clichés but Cooper kept them on the right side of convincing. I also adored the non-human characters, particularly Chisolm the goat - her antics had me laughing out loud.

The plot worked very well for me, with such a cast of characters it needed to be involved enough to keep the reader interested without becoming over complicated. I don't know much about horse racing and horse owning syndicates but that didn't matter at all because everything that needed to be explained was covered.

Over the course of the book I laughed and I cried, I wanted to shake characters and I punched the air in delight. I absolutely loved this book and it's increased my desire to go back to the days of Riders and Rivals and find out how it all began. ( )

I'm a relative newcomer to the world of Jilly Cooper, until reading Jump! the only book I had read of hers was Wicked! When I saw she had a new book coming out I knew it would be the next book of hers I chose.

Jump! is a return to the world of horse racing, bringing back much loved characters as well as introducing a whole raft of new ones. The pace varies throughout the book, I felt that at times it plodded along beautifully giving the characters time to develop and then with the turn of a page it would begin to pick up and race along for a while before steadying back down. I loved this aspect of the book, I think it worked very well particularly as the book is so long.

I fell in love with far too many characters to begin to talk about them all. I felt like I really got to know the characters well and I really cared about what happened to them. So many times I found myself wanting to shout at characters, particularly Etta's selfish children. I found the characters to be believable, there were many who could have turned into stereotyped clichés but Cooper kept them on the right side of convincing. I also adored the non-human characters, particularly Chisolm the goat - her antics had me laughing out loud.

The plot worked very well for me, with such a cast of characters it needed to be involved enough to keep the reader interested without becoming over complicated. I don't know much about horse racing and horse owning syndicates but that didn't matter at all because everything that needed to be explained was covered.

Over the course of the book I laughed and I cried, I wanted to shake characters and I punched the air in delight. I absolutely loved this book and it's increased my desire to go back to the days of Riders and Rivals and find out how it all began. ( )