part 5 of healing my inner horse girl

I read this series for the first time when I was about 12, now I'm 21 and thoroughly enjoying my reread!
The whole series is criminally underrated but this book is my favourite so far. Comet is the best pony character of the series in my opinion!

Obviously many of the events of the books are unrealistic (why are there so many 14 year old Pony Club riders casually jumping 1m40??) but I personally think it works fine, they're fun to read and exciting. I especially like how the writing becomes more sophisticated as Issie grows up. And while some of the characters like Natasha are rather stereotypical, I like how they have an opportunity to grow throughout the series.

This always was my favourite of the pony club secrets series!

This one has a pony riding school and for probably most of the book it's actually slightly less ludicrous than usual. In the latter half, of course, Izzy's amazing Luckiest Girl In The World mutant power kicks in, and the ghost pony was in there somewhere. It's interesting to me that I don't seem to come across many modern pony novels where a competition is the focus and it's something like a local show, or a pony club meet. It's always some sort of super elite galactic A-circuit million dollar ultimate showdown. I don't know, man. I think it's easier to care about whether a kid wins a ribbon at a gymkhana than whether they get crowned ultimate grand supreme rider in the universe. Like, they're pretty lucky to be in the running in the first place.

Anyway this isn't as stupid as the next one in the series >__>