Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

At page 425 of 559 (4 more hours to go on Kindle) I finally stopped reading, wishing I'd done so sooner as I'd give anything to be able to unread the previous chapter narrated by a character who is a pedophile, first about how he was abused and forced to abuse as a very young child, and then he describes abusing a very young girl again and again, in detail, when he is a young man. So disturbing! I loved Mr. Lamb's previous books but found this one to be poorly written, with lazy, repetitive word choices. For example, over and over characters use the word "that" when describing something (e.g. "that" Chinese restaurant)--to imply that the character to whom they're speaking (and I guess the reader) is familiar with it so no description is necessary. But all those "thats" started really bugging me. Lazy writing--the opposite of being specific. The lead character, a female artist, makes "angry" artwork that sounds like total garbage and is abusive to her children; her husband/ex-husband is an incompetent shrink; their children unsuccessful; her new partner, an art dealer, seems shallow (I say "seems" because she is barely described even though she's a major part of the plot). All of the characters seem like bloodless cardboard cutouts and the plot just meanders; more like reading a case file than literature.