Reviews with content warning for Misogyny - Ruthless People

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Ruthless People by J.J. McAvoy

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vix_reads's review against another edition

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adventurous challenging dark emotional funny mysterious sad tense fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

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Not for me.

I don’t recreate by thinking about the horrible things that people do to one another. I also don’t care to recreate by reading about people who are so dehumanizing to . . . pretty much everyone else. Like, on page two, the central male character reduced his current hook-up to the quality of her throat. Gross.

I hung on through, like, the first five chapters but a full-on torture scene, a passing but still graphic reference to another torturous incident, and v. graphic physical fight later and I realized it wasn’t going anywhere I wanted to go and I did not care at all about any of the characters. (Like, would rather slog through more episodes of Succession because, while that show involves the same ick factor of its characters, there’s at least a lack of physical torture and some wisp of a hope of character development. Hell, I’d even rewatch Game of Thrones before finishing this book because at least the filming locations were pretty and there is also a hope of character development through most of it.)

I literally found reading the reviews of this book to be more engaging than the actual book (note that most of them are better written, with fewer typos and grammatical mistakes).

All the same, I have too many warm fuzzy things to read to bother with this exceptionally harsh (and poorly edited) novel. Next!

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