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No Reading Pleasure
With all its comparisons to "Gone Girl", I found this novel too full of paranoia, too hard to find empathy or even sympathy for the protagonist. Rachael is too compromised by her own weakness, stumbling towards the story's end quite accidentally, forever caught in self-pity and lack of character. I found myself constantly angry as events unfolded. Also I found the male characters to be two-dimensional, too "typed". Furthermore, the story relied too heavily on preoccupation with sexual matters, even sexist in nature. Read through but unsatisfying.
January 2015 · Books · verified purchase