A review by khisle
Racing Manhattan by Terence Blacker

1.0

I couldn’t get past the weird writing style of this books to see anything else. It almost wants to be free verse because it has 3-4 stanza lines at the end of each chapter after the prose. It also had them interspersed through the text in a couple key moments which totally took me out of the story. It also was a lot of telling and very little showing. For instance, instead of showing character traits it put a couple facts about them in parenthesis after two newly introduced characters. There was a lot of explaining done by the main character in the beginning with very little descriptions or compelling features. I got boarded listening to her inner voice tell me things. This is a horse racing book but the first race lacked suspense and I didn’t get the same atmosphere I’ve seen in other racing books I have liked. This was a big miss for me