So much whinging from a grown man

I complained about The Likeness and all its implausibility, then immediately got In The Woods. Tana French is that charming. In the Wood was from the perspective of Rob Ryan, passingly mentioned in The Likeness. Cassie was a much better protagonist, while also a walking disaster who's occasionally judgemental and always melodramatic, Cassie still retained enough self awareness to be almost redeemable. Sadly Rob Ryan wasn't. It was 447 pages long book filled with 350 pages of pointless whinging, essentially about how Rob couldn't deal with his trauma so he used endless man-tantrums to complain about every tiny thing. It also didn't help that he had no more awareness to rest of the world than his lacking of introspection: most readers could tell Rosalind was the villain within the first meeting but Rob was too busy wanting to shag a seventeen year old to have any understanding of reality. At least I got to know Cassie a little better, so that was something. I complained about In the Woods, but then I immediately sought out for The Secret Place. I prefer passionately feeling something, even if it's not all that positive. So there.