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Definitely a good read

Revisado: 06-25-21

Your writing style is super good. I don’t know how many books you’ve written or how long you’ve been writing but it doesn’t sound amateur at all (if that makes sense) and you don’t “over-“ or “under-describe” any part of the story and its characters, nor do you use too much or too little of anything when analogizing, choosing words, metaphorizing, etc. I never once sat in (bad) judgement on how it was written and from just a casual reader’s perspective it sounded like a good book- nothing caught my attention or stuck out (in a negative way.)
The story was interesting and definitely kept me going. I find myself bored with books about 50% of the time, but I definitely did want to find out what was going to happen next and didn’t get bored with this one except for the one part where Jack is monologuing about Jerry while they’re at the zoo.
That being said, there was too much sex for my liking. Personally, I would’ve liked to see a wider spectrum in terms of the theme of the story, as it seemed to me that most of the story was carried mostly by the use of sex positively and negatively. The rape(s) and sexual slavery in the “Hellfire” secret society didn’t deter me as much as the fact that Jack seemed to think about sex more than anything else, Amy definitely spent most of her time thinking about it, and throughout the book there are details on women’s bodies specifically that are thrown in there seemingly unnecessarily.
Now, I did look at it from another perspective - Jack is obviously a sex addict and that’s why so much of the book is geared around sex. So, in that regard, this aspect of the story was written very well. In fact, this and his blatant-but-not-blatant sexism was written so well that I ended up hating him. From that perspective, it’s very admirable how much depth he has and how many times I went back-and-forth on liking him and not liking him - I think it’s an underused motif to make the main character unlikeable and out of the few books that have done it, this was one of the best ones I’ve read.
Finally, I did not like the narrator. His voice was a bit too grating and didn’t match Jack.

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