Review: Not Good
Rating: 1 out of 5
Date: 06 16, 2014
Rating: 1 StarThis came so close to being my first Did Not Finish book.  I really did not like it.  The main character is Alexandre and he's a therapist who provides treatment to women who have sexual issues (rape, daddy issues, etc.).The chapters in the book are labeled as days, Monday, March 31st, and then they typically list a woman's name that he has an encounter with.  Alexandre is a therapist who is also a sociopath and you really hate him by the time you get to the second day, if not the first day.  You did not really need to read the rest, because it only contained more days of his sociopathic behavior and his love of CBT (that was a new one for me).  The epilogue contains the entire plot, summarized.  So that's it, read the first two chapters/days and then the epilogue.  This was not a good book...at all!!Why Not 5 Stars?Once I discovered that Alexandre was horrible, had issues, there was nothing left.  I did not need to read all of the various ways he continued to be this way only to have it explained away / revealed during the epilogue.  The other side characters: Jane, Blythe, Beatrice, his scheduled patients, his 'unexpected patient', I did not learn much about them nor did I have a connection to any of them.  I simply did not care.  You should at least be able to care about one of the characters right?  I felt nothing.Perhaps the author was going for a mind blowing book, it did not work for me.  Disclosing the details during the epilogue was, technically, a very poor way to go about it.  I was not shocked, I was just glad to finish.