A review by bookshopbree
Kick the Latch by Kathryn Scanlan

reflective slow-paced

• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.75

This book is one of those ones you eat up in one sitting. A book that you can't stop thinking about, but can't really explain why. Maybe it's the simplicity of the text or the loping gait of the prose. Each chapter felt like race: a start, a finish; quick and sharp, but meaningful. Whatever it was, this tiny novel left an impact on me and I really enjoyed it. As a horse person, this book is full of familiar sensations, but the scenery was wholly new to me, as I don't know much about the jockey/racing scene. Kick the Latch provided a glimpse behind the curtain as the reader follows the narrator on an interview style journey of her life on the track. This was such a unique style of writing to me, being a fictionalized story based on interviews with an actual person.