869 reviews for:

Crook Manifesto

Colson Whitehead

3.87 AVERAGE

christypelloni's review against another edition

DID NOT FINISH: 37%

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Wasn't for me. Lots of characters and overlapping plots made it hard to follow

christdavis034's review

3.75

adventurous emotional tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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I enjoyed this. It’s well written and the characters are great, but I had trouble really getting into it.

farrellannie8's review

3.0

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I liked reading vignettes. Some parts were slower than others.

time_to_dine's review

4.0

adventurous hopeful informative reflective

ipekersoz's review against another edition

3.0

dark reflective slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

ann_mackey's review

4.0

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Ray Carney is now middle aged, we get to see how he manages life between the worlds of being an upright, straight businessman who dips his toe back into the crooked life. We get to know some of his associates a little more when the story weaves theirs into the main frame. Nice extension of the first book.

liggiesmallz's review

3.75

adventurous reflective tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

winston_j's review against another edition

3.5

dark medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

aplennon's review

4.0

medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

arielzeit's review against another edition

4.0

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Still good but not as great as the first one. I grew up in Manhattan in the 1970s so it was a little bit painful to read about how the city was going downhill and how politicians were scamming off the city's misfortunes, the danger and violence that was like a fog everywhere, not just Harlem. I would have liked it better if we'd stayed closer to Carney, the protagonist, as we did in the first book.