Some books I want to be longer or have more books in the series, some have found that sweet perfect length, but some are WAAAAY too long. This book is WAAAAY too long.
I liked some of the extra background stuff but overall oh man take a hundred pages out.
The beginning 2 chapters that tell you the background of the competitors are good, the middle 2 chapters on the race are good. The last 2 chapters about what the competitors did after could be shortened a bit but were pretty good. Take everything else out as far as I am concerned.
I would say either read this book assuming you will skip through some things or just Google the race and read some excerpts from the book.
Trailing the blonde 