Crosstalk

I'm a huge Willis fan, and I hated this book. Every single one of the characters was so annoying and unintelligent -- and many of them are so unapologetically manipulative -- that I did not care what happened to them.

The plot is incredibly predictable. In the first 50 pages, I managed to figure out all the major plot points. Then I just couldn't take it any more and read the last 50 pages. The ending turned out to be pretty much what I expected it to be, the offensive and controlling behaviors are never pointed out as being offensive and controlling, and the characters didn't get any less annoying. I've marked it "Read" and moved on, and feel absolutely no guilt or deprivation for having done so.

I find it disturbing that this book portrays a man controlling a woman "for her own good" as a sweet, romantic thing. That may have been acceptable -- and funny -- in the screwball comedies made in the 1930s through the 1960s, but it just comes off as being awful now.