storytimewithlily's review
- Loveable characters? No
1.0
Why did I read this book?
This book makes me wonder why I would ever what to pick up another book by a male author.
This book makes me want to be one of those people who advocate for culling the male population. If this is an indication of what goes on in the minds of men, they are all disgusting, bordeline-pedophilic perverts and we're better off without them (except Fazio, he seems to be the online relatively decent male in this book).
Also, the female characters were so obviously written by a man.
There's the 'irrationally' angry girlfriend (though I would be angry too if my boyfriend found a dead body in the house my friends were staying in but didn't say anything to them because he didn't want them to leave said house and stay in his house instead).
There's the over emotional wailing woman who the 'protagonist' gets annoyed by (her son went missing, don't you have any empathy?).
The hired help who speaks poorly and does everything for her master and has an unexplained female rivalry with the girlfriend.
The prude who gets murdered for being a prude and not liking being assaulted.
And finally there's the seductress/mans ideal woman. In her 20s seduces the fifty-something year old 'protagonist' and is totally okay with being objectified. She even tells the story of how when she was fucking fifteen some guy (I don't care if he had a mental disability, it's not an excuse, someone should have been looking after him) has been stalking her and her sister and then one day when she gets out of the shower he has broken into her house and is standing in the bathroom naked, and she proceeds to give him a kiss and let him grope her (what the fuck?).
All the male characters also suck (except Fazio) and the MC is supposed to be the good guy? He's a dick. He might not be an actual pedophile, but that's not much of an accomplishment.
The whodunnit was okay.
This book makes me wonder why I would ever what to pick up another book by a male author.
This book makes me want to be one of those people who advocate for culling the male population. If this is an indication of what goes on in the minds of men, they are all disgusting, bordeline-pedophilic perverts and we're better off without them (except Fazio, he seems to be the online relatively decent male in this book).
Also, the female characters were so obviously written by a man.
There's the 'irrationally' angry girlfriend (though I would be angry too if my boyfriend found a dead body in the house my friends were staying in but didn't say anything to them because he didn't want them to leave said house and stay in his house instead).
There's the over emotional wailing woman who the 'protagonist' gets annoyed by (her son went missing, don't you have any empathy?).
The hired help who speaks poorly and does everything for her master and has an unexplained female rivalry with the girlfriend.
The prude who gets murdered for being a prude and not liking being assaulted.
And finally there's the seductress/mans ideal woman. In her 20s seduces the fifty-something year old 'protagonist' and is totally okay with being objectified. She even tells the story of how when she was fucking fifteen some guy (I don't care if he had a mental disability, it's not an excuse, someone should have been looking after him) has been stalking her and her sister and then one day when she gets out of the shower he has broken into her house and is standing in the bathroom naked, and she proceeds to give him a kiss and let him grope her (what the fuck?).
All the male characters also suck (except Fazio) and the MC is supposed to be the good guy? He's a dick. He might not be an actual pedophile, but that's not much of an accomplishment.
The whodunnit was okay.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, and Sexual violence
Moderate: Stalking, Rape, Pedophilia, and Mental illness
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