A review by courtney_rose
The Chef by James Patterson, Max DiLallo
1.0
I was wandering shelves at my local library and the cover and premise intrigued me. The cover and book description are wildly misleading. I regret not looking up reviews first. I only finished it to find out if it got better, it didn’t.
This book is full of racial stereotypes, including mischaracterization of the entire Arabic community. MMC was holier than thou and chauvinistic.
2 FMC’s - the ex-wife who was actually quite funny. And the jilted married side piece who OBVIOUSLY fell in love with MMC (eye roll)
Loose ends (from the mystery part) that were never tied up.
This book was listed as a thriller, I have no idea how. I barely even had to think while reading it.
I truly feel bad for how much I loathed this book. I should’ve dumped it the second I saw that it was written in 2019 yet was desperately racist.
This book is full of racial stereotypes, including mischaracterization of the entire Arabic community. MMC was holier than thou and chauvinistic.
2 FMC’s - the ex-wife who was actually quite funny. And the jilted married side piece who OBVIOUSLY fell in love with MMC (eye roll)
Loose ends (from the mystery part) that were never tied up.
This book was listed as a thriller, I have no idea how. I barely even had to think while reading it.
I truly feel bad for how much I loathed this book. I should’ve dumped it the second I saw that it was written in 2019 yet was desperately racist.