First of all, for who likes me is not into horse racing and similar... FEI is the Fédération Équestre Internationale or in English, the International Federation for Equestrian Sports, is the international governing body of equestrian (horse) sports. Recognized competition disciplines include: dressage, combined driving, endurance riding, eventing, para-equestrianism, reining, show jumping, and vaulting.
For what I understand reading this book and also the Home series by T.A. Chase, dressage and show jumping is made with an English saddle (those little saddles used by men in tight white pants and high boots...) and reining is made with an American saddle (by men with leather chaps and cowboy hats). And it seems also that Dressage and Show Jumping competitions are held in the East Coast and instead Reining competitions are more a thing of West Coast and fair events.
The differences in the sport are turned and represented in the two main characters of this book. Andreas is a professional horseman, award winning in the Dressage discipline. He has spent all his life in the professional circuit, and also in Europe, and so the fact that he is gay seems not important, almost irrelevant. Rock instead is a former rodeo cowboy, a winner in the rodeo circuit but someone who needs to prove himself again in the FEI competitions. And he has had pretty bad experiences in the past when people knew of him being gay.
Two different men for life and experience, but equal in their desire to have someone with whom share the love for horses and the love for another man. In bed and alone from the world, Rock and Andreas go along well, they have a perfect harmony, but in the arena it's another matter. Rock needs to learn that even if controlled and cool, Andreas' discipline is not less difficult than his own, and Andreas needs to learn that control and coolness is good riding a dressage horse, but to ride a real cowboy, he needs to lose a bit.
There is a lot of sex in this book, but the author is very good in mingling it with a bit of information on the FEI world that arouses the reader's curiosity and gives importance to what happens outside the bedroom. I'd like also a little more of interaction with the other characters of the books (almost inexistent) like, for example, Charles and Derek, main character of Riding Partner, another book setting in the same universe I have still to read.
http://www.ellorascave.com/productpage.asp?ISBN=9781419915512Amazon Kindle:
Cowboy UpPublisher: Ellora's Cave (November 1, 2009)
Series:
1) Riding Partner
2) Cowboy Up
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First of all, for who likes me is not into horse racing and similar... FEI is the Fédération Équestre Internationale or in English, the International Federation for Equestrian Sports, is the international governing body of equestrian (horse) sports. Recognized competition disciplines include: dressage, combined driving, endurance riding, eventing, para-equestrianism, reining, show jumping, and vaulting.
