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Taking The Reins (The Rosewoods Book 1) Kindle Edition

by Katrina Abbott (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

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Book 1 of 10: The Rosewoods

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Brooklyn Prescott (if that’s even her real name) is the new girl at The Rosewood Academy for Academic Excellence, now that she’s moved back to the States after two years living in London. Rosewood, a boarding school for children of the rich and famous and known for its celebutantes, is missing just one element important to any junior’s education: boys. But luckily for Brooklyn, and the rest of the Rosewood girls, there’s a boys’ boarding school, The Westwood Academy, just a few miles away. On her very first day, Brooklyn meets Will, a gorgeous and flirty boy on campus to help with move in. But is he who she thinks he is? And what about Brady, the cute stable boy? Or Jared, the former child actor with his grown-up good looks who can always make her laugh? As Brooklyn settles in at Rosewood, she’s faced with new friends, new challenges and new opportunities to make herself into the girl she always wanted to be. Whoever that might be. Taking

The Reins is the first installment of The Rosewoods, an exciting Young Adult series for readers who love fun, flirty love stories.

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Readers are calling The Rosewoods books Fun and Addictive. Try out this first book and see why!

"For a funny,carefree, easy read, with a lot of out loud laughter, try this brand newseries." - A Bookish Escape

"The characters arewell defined and make the story more developed and likeable." - This Girl Reads a Lot

"If you are lookingfor a quick and cute contemporary, Taking the Reins would be perfect foryou!" - My Full BookshelfReviews

"Talk about a funbook! I cannot wait to continue this series and read the next one!" - Brianne's Reviews

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The Complete Rosewoods Brooklyn Series:
Fresh Start (FREE series prequel)
Taking the Reins (FREE for download)
Masquerade
Playing the Part
Reading Between the Lines
I'll Never Forget (FREE prequel to This Point Forward)
This Point Forward
Risking it All (FREE Alternate POV short story)
Making Ripples
Acting Out
Hitting the Target
Turning the Page
Crossing the Line
In a New York State of Mind (FREE series epilogue);

The Complete Rosewoods Rock Star Series:
Along for the Ride (FREE for download);
Going on Tour
Working for the Band
Loving the Rock Star

The Westwoods Series:
Striking a Pose

Product details

ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00I2OXIT6
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Over The Cliff Publishing (January 26, 2014)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ January 26, 2014
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 2338 KB
Simultaneous device usage ‏ : ‎ Unlimited
Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
Print length ‏ : ‎ 185 pages

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A survivor of adolescence, Katrina Abbott loves writing about teens: best friends, cute boys, kissing, drama. Her main vice is romance, but she's been known to succumb to the occasional chocolate binge. She may or may not live in California with her husband, kids and several cats.

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Sandy Penny

New Girl on Campus

Reviewed in the United States on March 21, 2017

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As a young adult novel, I liked it quite a lot. I'm way past young adult, but sometimes I like to revisit that time in my life, and books like this are perfect. Although it is set in an upper-class private school, it presents normal situations that occur for all students. There's plenty of angst, romance, friendship, challenge and story lines intentionally left unresolved to carry you through to reading the rest of the series. I really liked it, and would recommend it for any age. It does have some sexual content, although not overtly described, just hinted at. It's easy to care about the characters and want to get to know them better. Excellent writing.

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Reviewed in the United States on September 20, 2017

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Brooklyn is starting her junior year at a prestigious boarding school called Rosewood, home to the wealthy, talented and famous. Brooklyn has decided that since she is the new girl, she can become anyone she wants to be, and she wants to take chances and be bold. Right off the bat she meets 2 cute new boys and a handful of girls who have the potential to be friends. Not to mention the fact that she can ride horses again! But things don't go as smoothly as Brooklyn dreamed they would.

This was a very fast paced story, probably the shortest audiobook I have ever listened to at around 4.5 hours, but I think the length was just perfect to tell the story. This was just a taste of the new life that Brooklyn has as Rosewood academy, the start of her new big adventure and spanned at most two weeks. I thought this was a great introduction to the characters as well as the world. This story seemed to focus a lot on potential romance and developing friendships.

As a side note, I was slightly confused about the whole situation about Brooklyn's parents and the fact she had a secret last name she could not even remember due to security purposes. She mentions her father works for the military, so I guess a spy maybe, but it was so vague and random. I hope this comes up in more detail later on in the series, otherwise I think it should not be includes at all.

The story has a love square- Brooklyn has 3 boys that she likes, 2 off limits and one ok but slightly secretive. (So this is an all girl school she attends, but that doesn't mean in the slightest that their is a shortage of boy problems). Let's start with Will, the boy she meets the first few minutes of arriving at the school and is instantly attracted to but there is a big issue he doesn't mention. Then there is Brody (my absolute favorite!), the brooding stable boy who has a secret he doesn't reveal, and then the former childhood star Jordan who is super awkward about his past. Brooklyn, who has no real experience with boys is for sure over her head. And it doesn't help that most of her friends are boy crazy. To be honest, a LARGE chunk of this book deals with Brooklyn and her friends obsessing and talking about boys.

At times the narrator would say some parts in an English accent and other's without which was very odd to me, and yes the character mentions she has a strange hybrid accent, but I felt like this was off and on and not very consistent (which was probably hard to determine for the narrator with that description). Overall, I think the narrator and the overall quality of the audiobook was really good and I would listen to more from this narrator, be it this series or others.

This was a fun fast read to start the series and I would love to read the next book- preferably in audio version because I enjoyed this adventure.

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Theresa J.

An awesome story for adults AND teens!

Reviewed in the United States on July 8, 2021

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I started this just before my 2nd covid shot & allergy flair up. I didn’t get real sick, just allergies from our room a/c & the fact that the heat made the room warmer. Then I got the shot right as my allergies started getting so much better. Well, this book got me through 2.5 days. It was SOOO good that at the end, I was shocked looking for more of this story. What happened to Brooklyn? Did she end up with the 1st guy? Or 2nd guy? So, now it's time to read more of these books so I can see if the story continues.
I never went to boarding school or a fraternity so I had no idea what was going on. So great a story!

Reviewed in the United States on October 9, 2022

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I enjoyed "Taking the Reins" but the first chapter is also available separately as "Fresh Start: The Rosewood Series Prequel". I also felt a little too much time was spent on characters who were rather free and easy. While I didn't expect that a novel about teenage girls wouldn't have some discussions about boys and making out--this was walking the line without any realistic balancing.

Reviewed in the United States on May 9, 2017

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With a name like Brooklyn Prescott, you'd expect the new student at The Rosewood Academy for Academic Excellence to be selfish, spoiled, and pretentious. Luckily for us, she's just the opposite, she's warm, down to earth, and eager to be accepted. Brooklyn is used to being the new girl at school as her family moves often for her father's job, but she's never been able to make close friends. When she arrives at her new all-girl academy, she vows to try to be more outgoing and fun. She gets the chance right away as she meets Will, a gorgeous guy from the nearby Westwood all-boys school. She also meets two other boys she's immediately attracted to, Brady in the school stables, and Jared at the school dance.

There's not too much drama in this first book in the Rosewoods series, it's more about introducing us to the characters and their everyday life. I like the girls and their friendships feel real, it's nice to read a YA novel with no mean girl. Their conversations and the situations they get themselves into had me smiling through most of the book.

Brooklyn is plain old boy crazy, she goes into mental raptures over every male in her vicinity. I get the impression that she'll fall for a hitching post if you spray a bit of cologne on it. It doesn't help that every single boy in the book is incredibly hot and smells like a mix of leather, wood, and pure sex. Not a pair of sticky out ears, acne spots, or bad breath among them.

The narrator was a good choice, she put just the tiniest touch of a British accent in Brooklyn's voice, and her pace was perfect. I was voluntarily provided this free review copy audiobook by the author, narrator, or publisher.

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Teens are much the same everywhere. This story pictures teens as they can be at their best ~ fun loving, creative and awkward. Well told.

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James Gower

A good story, great characters, must get the next one.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 31, 2014

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Right the first thing I am going to say is, that I am a 25 year old guy and frankly I found this book fantastic.

The story was an imaginative one, possibly based on the authors own experience but who can say. I found the characters interesting and fun, you could understand where Brooklyn was trying to change herself to be a 'better' person but where her true personality would come out and instead of completely trip her up actually worked to compliment her even more.

To be honest I was surprised when I finished reading it as I had not realized how quickly it had absorbed me and I can honestly say I will most likely be picking up book 2 as it is a wonderfully fun change in pace, and who knows maybe it will help me understand women a bit more, (not likely but a guy can hope)

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Veronica

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Reviewed in Australia on September 20, 2014

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Brooklyn wasn’t the fun girl or the popular girl. She was the plain girl. The girl no one noticed. However now was the best time for 17 year old Brooklyn to change her image. She was not only starting a new school she was also moving countries. The shy awkward Brooklyn was gone. Now she was flirty, fun Brook.

This is a lovely fun teen romance suitable for young teens. I loved that the girls were all nice to each other and immediately accepted Brooklyn into their circle. Even in a girls boarding school they still managed to have some fun and even wrangle a few sneaky meet-ups with the boys at night. I am sure a lot of young girls will relate to Brooklyn. (Who wouldn’t want to start all over again with a new school and new image?)
I would recommend this novel to any teenage girl that enjoys fun, light reads.
Taking the Reins is the first novel in The Rosewoods series.