I almost gave this one star, and the second might solely be because of the relief I feel that it's over. But all in all, I think it was more interesting than the first one. Still long winded. Still could have been about half the length without missing anything important.

And there were so many completely useless irrelevant characters who seemed to exist solely to be irredeemably evil. I'm all for having jerks and misogynists and homophobes and murderers in fiction. They exist in real life; they should exist in fiction. But when there are a dozen random side characters who don't contribute anything to the story and just exist to hate women (or whoever they hate), it's exhausting to read. Especially for over seven hundred pages.

But it was a quicker read than the first, and it felt like a lot less info dumping was going on. I still don't understand the popularity of these books, but I'm starting to think it's some voyeuristic obsession with sex and sex crimes.