Unabridged Audiobook
It’s so bad it’s almost like an unintentionally funny B movie, but then you want to shower the book off of you. The characters are two dimensional and painfully stereotypical. The plot twist was evident about an hour into listening and a big conceit of the book is that it focuses hard core on the one twist and leaves several side issues unanswered, left to the imagination of the reader. The psychiatrist main character is grossly unprofessional. The patient is a cardboard standee mix of Marilyn Manson, Trent Resnor and Rob Zombie, two of whom are very talented and, my understanding from people who have met them, very urbane, pleasant and intelligent people in person. The psychiatric illnesses described in the book are reduced to a lurid and over simplified gimmick that made me feel a little bit gross. The way that pedophilia and its victims are written about is disturbing. It’s really, in my opinion, a very nearly irresponsible book in the grossly misleading way it handles serious mental illness. The narrator does a solid, but uninspired job; however, it should be noted that she was given pretty cringeworthy material to work with.
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