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A review by rowansime
Fellowship of Fear by Aaron Elkins
1.0
The main character was engaging and interesting for about 50% of the book, despite his wife being 'fridged' (killed for his character development) before the book even started. Kind of reminded me of Bones - not great at social stuff, but deeply interested in his anthropological work.
Then about 50% of the way through the book, the woman he was interested in revealed herself to be a feminist and to be writing a dissertation on sexism, which made him laugh out loud at the absurdity and mentally rant and rave about how boring and frustrating feminists are. Oh, but she was still good enough to sleep with, after he lied his way out of having to admit to his gross misogynistic thoughts.
So, I got to there, tried to continue, but genuinely couldn't because of what an ass the main character ended up looking like. If the author had omitted that section, the book I'm sure would have ended up being at least marginally entertaining, despite the wife situation. However, it tainted it so completely that I was unable to finish it.
Then about 50% of the way through the book, the woman he was interested in revealed herself to be a feminist and to be writing a dissertation on sexism, which made him laugh out loud at the absurdity and mentally rant and rave about how boring and frustrating feminists are. Oh, but she was still good enough to sleep with, after he lied his way out of having to admit to his gross misogynistic thoughts.
So, I got to there, tried to continue, but genuinely couldn't because of what an ass the main character ended up looking like. If the author had omitted that section, the book I'm sure would have ended up being at least marginally entertaining, despite the wife situation. However, it tainted it so completely that I was unable to finish it.