Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

Aside from a missing person investigation that kept my interest for a short while, this book alternates with being too sick and then too boring & is ultimately not worth the time. THREE characters are sadists who target women (overkill, maybe??). The main character is a trite portrayal of what old deluded men probably fantasize about being. The relationship he has with his editor for instance is wholly unrealistic- two people who have sex regularly and work together are just not gonna BOTH be cool and pleasant about the other sleeping around. I found the whole book from start to finish to be a misogynistic indulgence (that the author thought he could disguise with weak attempts at outrage for the situations he created & elaborated on to a sickening, repetitive and quite 'telling' degree). You can change the name of the book from "Men who Hate Women" in the US reprint, but you're not fooling anyone (I didn't find that out until after I wrote the first review). The character fighting against all this sadism is a 4'11'' anorexic with aspergers syndrome, which begs the question: what is this guy trying to say by making this character so small & defenseless? Part of the first chapter of the next book in the series was included at the end, which AGAIN was completely misogynistic and sadistic toward females- the only difference was that this time the victim was 13!?!! Hmmm... if he can sell a book about violence against small skinny women (& it turns out to be a best seller), maybe he can sell the second one about violence toward children. It's as if the author is 'grooming' large masses of readers into his pedophilic musings. The irony was that this section is supposed to be meant to want to make us run out & buy the next book in the series??? What? Who are these people who want to read about what pedophiles do to kids???? I've wasted enough time with this guy's disgusting fantasies. Apart from the pedophilic and sadistic scenes that make this book 'part of the problem,' the character and story development is sorely lacking & doesn't even begin to compare to Silence of the Lambs (which was referenced on the cover). It veers off into other directions that are just boring & all the references to Nazi's makes me wonder if this author was at all aware of his own hypocrisy; feining outrage at mysogyny in a story that indulges it. That kind of righteous indignation & self-delusion is pretty consistent with pedophilia & I think the popularity of this series is an example of how a seeminly benign veiled pedophile can get into one's head & make you accept things you would never have thought possible. There's no reason to read these books & nothing to be gained, this is just sadism for the sake of sadism.