nerdyprettythings's profile picture

nerdyprettythings 's review for:

All the Colors of the Dark by Chris Whitaker
2.0

So I thought I was just going to tell you that I found this book to be a slog and not for me, but then the ending really pissed me off. I started off a little confused about POVs and what was happening, then as the storylines became clear I was rolling my eyes a little about how all these characters love this one guy and all the women are just tools for seeing him through. And then I laughed around four separate times at how this story is halfway Forrest Gump. But yeah I am not getting the hype. There’s so much romanticizing of the main male character’s bad behavior, by the author and all the characters in the book. He spends his life searching for missing girls but he causes a lot of grief for the three main women in his life (women who, with over 600 pages here, feel underdeveloped). Even the main reveal at the end was something a main female character had seemingly figured out about 3/4 in and just hadn’t been revealed yet. I am bummed y’all.