So we are now onto Polo which as you can see from my user name is a particular favourite of mine!
Polo brings back lots of characters from earlier books, as it runs over the same time period as Rivals (starting just after Riders). It also introduces lots of entertaining new characters - Ricky and Chessie France-Lynch, the Macleods, the Aldertons.
I like getting to see events from Rivals from a different point of view. You also get Rupert and Taggie's wedding in this book (which appears to take place about 5 minutes after he proposed at the end of Rivals - how do they organise weddings so quickly in Cooper world?).
However, what's annoying is that Jilly has got her dates wrong in this book, and things happen about 2 years before they happened in Rivals - for example if you work through the timeline in Rivals, Rupert and Taggie's wedding is Xmas 1987. However, if you work through the dates in Polo, the wedding is Xmas 1985. Because of this disparity with dates, Rupert's age doesn't tie up - at a specific event in the past which I won't mention because it is a spoiler, he was apparently 18 which would make him born 1947 - but this doesn't tie up with ages quoted in Riders which work out to him being born in 1947.
Anyway, putting all that aside (which won't annoy people less geeky than me anyway) this is a great book, good characters and the usual sex and horses that make up a typical Cooper!
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ChessieFL · 25/05/2016 18:42
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