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Horse by Geraldine Brooks

16 reviews

ladyk8ie8's review

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emotional informative tense medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes

3.0

If this was just a book about Lexington, his history/the context in which we lived , the art, etc— would have loved! But while I enjoyed aspects of the modern storyline— it felt like a virtue signal  and don’t think it fully connected both storylines together in the way the author thought it did 
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chgray's review

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dark informative sad tense medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Plot
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

2.0

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lowwi_owo's review

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emotional reflective medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.25

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rachelwastaken's review against another edition

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challenging emotional informative reflective sad tense slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

This book is about so much more than a racehorse - it's also about race.

Horse is written from several points of view and I'm not sure this story would have been as relatable without the competing timelines. Meticulously researched and based heavily on the lives of real people - Horse is a novel that is going to stay with me for a long time.

I loved reading about Lexington and his groom, Jarret. The connection the two shared brought back many memories of my childhood, also spend in the company of horses.
The way Brooks weaved these timelines together was masterful and left me wanting more. It's almost unbelievable that one of America's greatest racehorses was simply forgotten and left to gather dust in the attic of the Smithsonian, and I am delighted to think that this book will inspire a resurgence of love for this amazing animal. It's difficult not to question how this story would have been written had it not been for the civil war and it saddened me to be confronted with the realities of our current outlook on race over a century later.
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tayce's review against another edition

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reflective tense medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix

2.0

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nora_knight's review

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adventurous challenging dark emotional informative reflective tense medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Plot
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes

4.5

This was a really interesting book. It told the story of horse racing in America and one particular horse in a very moving and interesting way, utilizing characters spanning 200 years. However, it also told a darker story of blackness in America and how rooted horse racing is in slavery. It was a moving, powerful book but the paragraphs and chapters were a bit long for my taste. Additionally, the story was told through many POVs but it would occasionally include other characters' thoughts and feelings during chapters which I found confusing and mostly unnecessary. This is a book that my mother and grandmother read and enjoyed, and it was lovely to discover the same story as two generations of women before me. Beautiful and important. 
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