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Manhattan Dreaming (2010)

by Anita Heiss(Favorite Author)

3.27 of 5 Votes: 5

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

Random House

review 1: One of the more disappointing books I have read in a long time. I should have trusted my gut in judging books by their cover. I'd never have given this book a second glace by the cover alone (which would have been a good thing!) but I saw the author in a talk and was interested, bought the book, got bored of it straight away but hoped until the end that there would be a redeeming feature. Sadly, there wasn't. It's all telling and no showing. It's didactic (read: condescending) in its distrust of the reader's imagination and intelligence and in its insistence on making the reader understand that the protagonist is Aboriginal, sexy, and fabulous with an MA (get over it!!). Stylistically, it's repetitive with indistinct voices, stock character exchanges, and cringingly cliche... mored phrases and plotting. One star for the effort of actually sitting down and hacking out the pages. No more.
review 2: A chic lit book about an Aboriginal gallery curator who decides to use the chance to go to New York as a way to get over her douchey ex. I liked the main character but it was SOOO chic litty, and her ex was such a douche. I skipped to the end to see if she stopped pining about him and she had barely stopped and there was some annoying stuff about lesbianism and I gave up. If you can deal with that you might enjoy it. less

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